[Jim Noble]

What is your evidence, Constitutional or otherwise, that private citizens are exempt from impeachment?

I mean, most private citizens cannot commit a "high crime or misdemeanor", but some of them can have done so.

[BiglyCommentary]

You first. Show your evidence from the Constitution where the impeachment power extends to anyone other than the President or an officer of the US Government.

Same as holding a trial and then trying to convict a deceased person.

I’ll stick with Alan Dershowitz’s understanding in this matter.

[DevonD]

Seems pretty simple

Article II, Section 4 provides:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.[2]

The Senate has said back in 1799 that members are not subject to impeachments since they are not civil officers. So the Senate has confirmed you can only do this to the list above.

Will that stop them, no. So they should just start impeaching random people so they cannot hold office.

I though incitement of a riot is a felony, would that not disqualify him. They realize a real court would not convict.