I think you may have the sequence reversed. My take is that the entire outing of Weinstein and the Me Too movement were a carefully orchestrated effort to set the stage for this moment. That 180 that Pelosi did re: Frankel let the cat out of the bag. It’s all been about creating an atmosphere where voting against Trump’s impeachment becomes difficult politically for the RINOs in the Senate. All they have to do is swing three of them. Now that the whole “all men are evil” movement is in full cry, they’re counting on public pressure being enough to carry the day.
What’ll be interesting is to see what happens if Moore wins. This sudden decision to “go public” on the day before the Alabama election may be an attempt to build on their success in smearing Moore with 40 year old allegations, or it may be that if he wins, they think it’ll mean that the majority of Americans either see through this stuff or don’t think it’s disqualifying, so their chances of knocking out Trump become slim.
It was definitely timed prior to the Moore election on purpose.
They need a 2/3 vote in the Senate for removal.
Impeachment is done in the House. The Senate, afterwards, can vote to convict.
I think this is a trial run with Moore to see if the Repub are dumb enough to fall for it If he loses the Dems will be doing this to every Repub running in 2018. So far the establishment Repub are dumb enough to fall for it. Amazing they call Moore unfit to serve and congress is paying has high as $220K to keep sexual harassment charges covered up. Shelby from Alabama should clean up congress first before they trash anyone else.
It takes 2/3rds of the Senate to affirm impeachment.
Unless someone is too sick to vote, 2/3rds of 100 is 67 senators or about.