Excuse me but I thought Trump's not impeached UNLESS AND UNTIL THE SENATE ALSO VOTES TO IMPEACH..
house impeaches
senate convicts or not
Clinton was impeached. But Senate voted NO.
I thought Trump’s not impeached UNLESS AND UNTIL THE SENATE ALSO VOTES TO IMPEACH****
The house impeaches. That’s their part of the process of removing a president.
The Senate has nothing to do with impeaching.
The House “charges” the president with the “crimes.”
Similar to a District Attorney charging someone with a crime.
Then it goes to “court” where there is a trial.
The ‘court’ in this case is the Senate.
The House is through with it now, it’s in the Senate where the ‘trial’ is held.
If the Trump team wants to, they can present a motion to dismiss.
Then it can be dismissed, or if the ‘Judge’ doesn’t accept that motion it goes to trial.
The Senators are the ‘Jury’ but I believe they can question witnesses.
Anyway, that’s my take on it...
Impeach = indict, to wit: crime is alleged and articulated, with reasonable evidence to consider as proof.
Senate holds the actual trial, prosecuting and convicting if proven guilty.
And that’s the catch: democrats assume most voters don’t know what impeachment actually means.
The house votes to impeach, the senate acts as a court and has a trial.