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To: WildHighlander57

“From the Wall Street Journal:

No, You Can’t Try an Impeached Former President
The Senate erroneously asserted jurisdiction once, but dissenting members forced an acquittal.

...No former official has ever been convicted by the Senate, and only one has been impeached. Secretary of War William W. Belknap was indisputably guilty of numerous impeachable offences, to which he confessed as he resigned his office hours before the House unanimously impeached him in 1876. The Senate voted in favor of a procedural motion affirming its jurisdiction to try Belknap’s impeachment. But two dozen senators who believed he was guilty voted to acquit on jurisdictional grounds. A close vote nearly a century and a half ago doesn’t establish a binding precedent.

A more compelling precedent is the House’s decision not to impeach Richard Nixon. After he left office in 1974 to avoid certain impeachment and conviction, there was no movement to continue the process.

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Thank you for that answer, I have felt that Our Former President Trump is OUT OF OFFICE and if Nanzi and Chucky Cheese continue on this path, he just will let everything out, remember: Q said: “We Have It All” and they sure do not want US to know it ALL...

Thank you WildHighlander57...


1,223 posted on 01/25/2021 1:57:28 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (President Trump will ALWAYS be MY President of the United States of America!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

You’re most welQome !

If they insist on trying, PDJT should unload everything about the election steal.

What exactly did the House go after him for?


1,245 posted on 01/25/2021 2:22:10 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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