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A majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to hold a full impeachment trial of former U.S. president Donald Trump when they backed Democrats' argument that the proceeding is allowed under the U.S. Constitution.

Trump's lawyers argued that as a former president, the Senate has no legal standing for holding a trial on the House of Representatives' impeachment charge that he incited an insurrection while in office.

They said the proceedings were not in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.

However, six Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in a 56-44 vote, allowing the trial to continue.

House of Representatives Democrats, serving as prosecutors, opened their case Tuesday by showing video of Trump supporters violently overwhelming police at the Capitol in the Jan. 6 attack after he had encouraged people in a speech to "fight like hell" to overcome his Nov. 3 election defeat.

“If that’s not an impeachment offense, then there is no such thing,” Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, who led the prosecution, told the assembled senators – serving as jurors – after showing the video.

The Senate trial follows only the fourth impeachment of a president in U.S. history. But it is unlike all others in that Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He is also the only ex-president to face a Senate trial.

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