Mitch McConnell refuses to reconvene chamber for emergency impeachment session of Donald Trump

Democrat Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said: "We could come back ASAP and vote to convict Donald Trump and get him out of office now before any further damage is done."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declined to recall the Senate in an emergency session. Picture: Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP

Republican Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnell has rejected requests to bring back the US Senate early in order to begin impeachment proceedings of US President Donald Trump.  

The Democrat party had pressed the Kentucky Senator to recall the Senate, according to the Wall Street Journal, before January 19, to receive an article of impeachment that the US President had incited an insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.