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To: EVO X
-- The only power he loses is the power to pardon while impeached. --

He has the pardon power for as long as he is in office. He loses no power just because the House formally accuses him with articles of impeachment.

64 posted on 12/19/2019 6:40:21 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Article II, Section 2 provides:

[The President] ... shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He gets the power back if is acquitted is the way I read it. If the house doesn’t send the articles to the senate, is he impeached? We’ll find out in a few..


70 posted on 12/19/2019 6:48:47 AM PST by EVO X
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