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To: Michael.SF.
Because you do not have a high school level of understanding regarding the impeachment process and by continuing to argue, you are making yourself look like an uneducated fool.

Really?

Impeachment
The Senate's Impeachment Role
The United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" (Article I, section 2) and that "the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments .... [but] no person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present" (Article I, section 3). The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States are subject to impeachment.

Snip...” In impeachment proceedings, the House of Representatives charges an official by approving, by majority vote, articles of impeachment. A committee of representatives, called “managers,” acts as prosecutors before the Senate. The Senate Chamber serves as the courtroom. The Senate becomes jury and judge, except in the case of presidential impeachment trials when the chief justice of the United States presides. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official is removal from office. In some cases, disqualification from holding future offices is also imposed. There is no appeal.

Anything else I need to know?

Shall we return to the issue of pardons?

144 posted on 10/11/2016 3:02:14 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

145 posted on 10/11/2016 3:11:41 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (She calls me Mr. Deplorable.)
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