You can’t remove a president who is not the president.
2 + 2 = 4.
They cannot remove Trump and cannot bar him from running for future office under the US Constitution.
Game over.
No, now they will just move for Criminal Charges.
Why would Trump ever run again? He would have to be insane and he is not.
They cannot remove Trump and cannot bar him from running for future office under the US Constitution.
Game over.
Regardless, I don’t doubt Roberts will let Schumer try to convict POTUS.
Nor can they beat him in a fair election
“Game over.”
No, now they’ll go after him in other ways.
They can use their friends in the SDNY to attack him.
They can kill him and get bonus points by making it look like one of us did it.
They can use the bureaucracy to endlessly harass him by weaponizing the IRS and other government agencies.
etc.
I tend to agree. However, the Senate has consistently, throughout history, asserted that it does have jurisdiction to try the impeachment of a former officer. The Senate has never actually convicted a former officer, though, so no one has ever had standing to challenge that assertion in court.
We have reached the point where the Deep State publicly demands 2 + 2 = 5 and we have much less power to resist.
[Thread Article] Democrats have proposed holding the trial over Trump’s impeachment well-into Biden’s presidency. Michael Luttig, a former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, slammed the idea on Tuesday, asserting that impeaching and removing a president after he left office is “unconstitutional.”
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[Trumpisourlastchance #3] You can’t remove a president who is not the president.
But after an official leaves office, he may be impeached. Per the Constitution, Article I, Sec. 2, Cl. 7, "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honor, Trust, or Profit under the United States...."
The impeachment and trial of an official after he has left office not only can be done, it has been done.
In order, William Belknap resigned, his resignation was accepted, and then he was impeached and tried (acquitted with a majority, but less than two-thirds for conviction).
The Senate overruled a plea to lack of jurisdiction. An impeachment proceeding is held pursuant to the Constitution. It is the same for all officials whether judge, senator, or president. There is clear precedent to hold a trial.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/War_Secretarys_Impeachment_Trial.htm
War Secretary's Impeachment TrialMay 1876
An impeachment trial for a secretary of war occupied much of the Senate’s time during May 1876.
At issue was the behavior of William Belknap, war secretary in the administration of President Ulysses Grant. A former Iowa state legislator and Civil War general, Belknap had held his cabinet post for nearly eight years. In the rollicking era that Mark Twain dubbed the Gilded Age, Belknap was famous for his extravagant Washington parties and his elegantly attired first and second wives. Many questioned how he managed such a grand lifestyle on his $8,000 government salary.
By early 1876, answers began to surface. A House of Representatives committee uncovered evidence supporting a pattern of corruption blatant even by the standards of the scandal-tarnished Grant administration.
The trail of evidence extended back to 1870. In that year, Belknap’s luxury-loving first wife assisted a wheeler-dealer named Caleb Marsh by getting her husband to select one of Marsh’s associates to operate the lucrative military trading post at Fort Sill in Indian territory. Marsh’s promise of generous kickbacks prompted Secretary Belknap to make the appointment. Over the next five years, the associate funneled thousands of dollars to Marsh, who provided Belknap regular quarterly payments totaling over $20,000.
On March 2, 1876, just minutes before the House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on articles of impeachment, Belknap raced to the White House, handed Grant his resignation, and burst into tears.
This failed to stop the House. Later that day, members voted unanimously to send the Senate five articles of impeachment, charging Belknap with “criminally disregarding his duty as Secretary of War and basely prostituting his high office to his lust for private gain.”
The Senate convened its trial in early April, with Belknap present, after agreeing that it retained impeachment jurisdiction over former government officials. During May, the Senate heard more than 40 witnesses, as House managers argued that Belknap should not be allowed to escape from justice simply by resigning his office.
On August 1, 1876, the Senate rendered a majority vote against Belknap on all five articles. As each vote fell short of the necessary two-thirds, however, he won acquittal. Belknap was not prosecuted further; he died in 1890.
In fact our entire government is an embarrassment now, just a bunch of lying cheating stealing morons up there
It makes me cringe
In fact our entire government is an embarrassment now, just a bunch of lying cheating stealing morons up there
It makes me cringe
“ You can’t remove a president who is not the president.
2 + 2 = 4.”
If someone can believe that women have penises, he can believe that 2+2=7.
You can’t remove a president who is not the president.
2 + 2 = 4.
They cannot remove Trump and cannot bar him from running for future office under the US Constitution.
They are not doing this to remove Trump
They are doing this so they can take away his Secret Service protection so they can kill him