Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice.

The House has just voted to impeach President Trump for the second time – making him the only US president to ever be impeached twice. The resolution passed 232 to 197.

The impeachment resolution the House voted on charges Trump with a single article, "incitement of insurrection" for his role in last week's deadly Capitol riot.

There is no such thing as a routine impeachment but this one is unprecedented in all sorts of ways.

The overall impeachment process laid out in the Constitution is relatively simple:

A president commits "high Crime or Misdemeanor".
The House votes to impeach.
The Senate conducts a trial.
This impeachment process will feel entirely new and different from the one we saw in late 2019 around the Ukraine investigation, most notably because the Senate trial is expected to occur after Trump leaves office.

The House has voted to impeach Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection, after the president incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol last week, resulting in five deaths.

Trump has become the first president in US history to ever be impeached by the House twice.

The matter will now go before the Senate, which will decide whether Trump should be convicted and removed from office.

The trial will likely conclude after Joe Biden takes office anyway, but a conviction would prevent Trump from running for president again.