This comes after 5 days of public impeachment testimony.
Now that part is finished. So, now what?
When the impeachment inquiry kicked off nearly two weeks ago, truth became part of a political tug of war.
Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown Law, has studied the impeachment process since the Nixon years.
He says – whether or not a crime was committed – is not necessarily the point with impeachment.
"For example, if Donald Trump announced tomorrow that he was going to take a two-year vacation in Aruba -- that would not violate any criminal law," Seidman says. "But, I think it's pretty clear he could be impeached for that. The standard is not the criminal law. The standard is whether he is abusing the powers of his office.”
Most House Republicans have backed the President and don’t appear to be budging.
Based on all the testimony, the House Intelligence Committee will send any materials it collected and a report to the Judiciary Committee.
The Judiciary Committee may hold its own public hearings or depositions.
Those members will then decide if impeachment goes to the full House for a vote.
Impeachment requires 218 members to vote for it. There are 233 Democrats in the house.
If it passes, it moves to the Senate, where a trial is held, with Senators acting as the jury.
There are 53 Republicans in that chamber.
Removal from office requires a two-thirds vote there.
Despite those numbers, Professor Seidman cautions against trying to predict an outcome.
"We don't know what new testimony is going to come out," Seidman says. "It's just a fool's errand to predict with any certainty how this will end.”
