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To: Sidebar Moderator

The working assumption of most scholars is that resignation or the end of a term stops the impeachment proceeding. Otherwise, with the holding of office no longer at stake, a ban from future office or the forfeiture of pension become the only punishments available. A trial before a legislative body for such a purpose would likely be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.


42 posted on 01/14/2021 12:22:40 PM PST by Rockingham
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Exactly. The core purpose of a senate trial to remove a functionary from office. All that other stuff presupposes the senate had jurisdiction over such a case to begin with, which it wouldn’t.


46 posted on 01/14/2021 12:29:10 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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