Sen. Lamar Alexander said he plans to vote to acquit President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, citing concerns over establishing a “perpetual impeachment” in the House and “immobilizing the presidency.”

“I'm going to vote to acquit. I'm very concerned about any action that we could take that would establish a perpetual impeachment in the House of Representatives whenever the House was a different party than the president. That would immobilize the Senate,” the 79-year-old Tennessee Republican said in an interview set to air Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”


The retiring senator invoked the framers of the Constitution to express disdain over a situation “where a partisan majority in the House of either party can stop the government.”