Impeachment blatantly is for removal from office when you’re out of office you can’t be impeached. If this where constitutional then congress can basically impeach any private citizen they want
Including GWB, Clinton, and Zero.
Going out on a limb here. Let me predict the demonkkkraps legal argument on why they are allowed to proceed with Trump impeachment in the Senate despite what the expert Dersh is saying.
They will argue that Trump was impeached while he was still occupying the White House. It should not matter that his term expired before the Senate could take it up and render its judgement. It is only right that it carries over and the Senate be obligated to take up the articles of impeachment as they are REQUIRED to UNDER the Constitution! No discretion, no sunset. As far as other past POTUS - they may not be impeached as House did not act before they left office.
This will advance up to the S Ct because either (1) the Senate won’t take it up and kkkraps sue to force them to take it up, or (2) Senate takes it up and Trump sues.
Now there are 3 leftist justices votes already in the bag for the kkkraps and Roberts a likely 4th. The kkkraps will also argue (or Schumer threatens them as he has successfully done in the past), that 3 Justices nominated by Trump are required to recuse. The rest will be history as Roberts will demand a rare recusal if they do not take the “hint” and “voluntarily” recuse. It will be a 4 - 2 decision, , and holding = Senate must act in the historically rare case where a “late term impeachment” must be heard by the Senate even though the “previous WH occupant” is no longer in the office because House took action under the Constitution prior to said exit, and to do so .
The kkkraps will Mitch will join Murkowski, Collins, Cotton, Toomey and “Willard from Utah” to convict.
And some people said it was unconstitutional under the “ceremonial 12th Amendment” for VP Pence to toss selected electoral ballots where electoral fraud evidence existed?!?! Don’t worry, it may be Camel Harris in 2024 who will prove them wrong.
And Dersh will end up on the losing side as real constitutional law has nothing to do with this.