[fwdude]

Impeachment is not a conviction. The House’s vote to impeach is more along the lines of an indictment. The Senate conducts the trial and convicts or exonerates.

[philman_36]

OK. The Senate can convict without removal, correct?

[philman_36]

A vote in the House along party lines. (Impeachment)
A vote in the Senate along pary lines. (Conviction, possibly)

The result - a conviction with no removal...but a conviction on the record forever.

Or just an impeachment if the Senate doesn't do what it should.

There is still an impeachment on the record...forever.

[philman_36]

His crimes would be on the record because the DOJ isn’t going to put them on the record.