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To: ChicagoConservative27

If the Demonicrats want to convict former President Trump so that he cannot run for office again, how do they explain Demonicrat Alcee Hastings who was impeached and removed from the federal bench for corruption, and who has been an elected Representative from Florida since 1993?


91 posted on 01/25/2021 11:00:30 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse
how do they explain Democrat Alcee Hastings who was impeached and removed from the federal bench for corruption, and who has been an elected Representative from Florida since 1993?

The Senate chose not to impose the punishment of disqualification on Hastings.

107 posted on 01/25/2021 11:15:37 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: Carl Vehse
If the Demonicrats want to convict former President Trump so that he cannot run for office again, how do they explain Demonicrat Alcee Hastings who was impeached and removed from the federal bench for corruption, and who has been an elected Representative from Florida since 1993?

Under Article I, section 3 of the Constitution, upon conviction by the Senate, an impeached federal official is removed from office and the Senate has the option (but is not required) to also prohibit the official from holding any federal office in the future. I cannot recall any prior impeachment where the Senate elected to prohibit an impeached official (I believe that all prior convictions were judges like Hastings) from holding future federal office.

109 posted on 01/25/2021 11:18:01 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Slow Joe is Not My President!)
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