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Understanding the impeachment process...

It is important, as the convictions and guilty pleas continue, to understand the nature of an impeachment.

Article I, Section 2, clause 5 of the Constitution states: "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."

Article I, Section 3, clause 6 states: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present

The impeachment itself is actually a judgement by the House that there is enough evidence to bring the president or other high official to "trial" in front of the Senate."

This is a two part process that is limited to removal from office only (Art. 1, Sect. 3, Clause 7). Once the president goes the entire impeachment process and is removed from office, the Vice President assumes the duties of the president, as happened when Nixon resigned from office. (Art. II, Sect.1. Clause 6)

As we saw with the Nixon and Clinton impeachments this is a long and drawn-out process that could take years bringing us to and perhaps beyond the general election of 2020. If the president is re-elected, then the process continues. If not… well we have not had that happen yet, so it is unknown.

Will Trump be impeached? Not until the level of anger among the political right becomes unbearable.

SageDave 7 Aug 23
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Don't the 'intelligence' agencies have silent dart guns with toxins that cause a heart attack?

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Please spare us your Judicial Banter. That the Supreme Court let this go on is more disturbing then the GOP who has sat back after wasting trillion on Bengazi to which they still have their thumbs stuck in differential body cavities and will not switch hands. He's dirtier than dirt in every form of Presidential Manner, Background, Foreign Protocol, Judicial Process which is all being directed through his Twitter Account on a daily basis. He is being instructed by his GOP who are the true criminals and are responsible for this person to play golf and invite foreign dignitaries to his hotels along with tabloids being filled with numerous tales of deception both present and past and a sexual deviant who has been exposed on every level and each a felonious crime.
Why not write about how this has been able to go on for as long as it has and the injustices that has occurred under his watch.
In closing you should direct this to Valdimir Putin who orchestrated this fiasco and is holding the key witness as to how this was orchestrated and I'm talking about Edward Snowden who tried to bring this all to light and was railroaded as were others in History from telling the truth.

I just never understand why people here continually attack the poster, either ignore what is posted or completely change the topic of the post. I have an idea, if you want a different topic posted, DO IT!

@lerlo I wrote this retort because I totally understand what you are all about! Your a Fire Chief watching a Building Burn Down right in front of your eyes and say what codes and violations were neglected and what other needed codes should be implemented in the future. Your Judicial Expertise will tell your client to plead not guilty even when they have the gun, eye witnesses and a video film of the accused on tape.
I did not attack, ignore, or alter what you posted. I addressed through every fact finding way which has been the topic of every Media and News Concern on a daily basis since his first day in Office.
Our Electoral and Democratic Process has been undermined, hacked and manipulated by a Foreign Country to whom the 'Appointed ' made his way into the Oval Office. He has appointed a Cabinet of Misfits who have absolutely no experience in their respective offices of which some have prior criminal convictions and others whom are most definitely OC's that have positive criminal priors.
Go find his tax returns, failed business dealings, ex wives and sexual deviancy, fraud, deceit and bankruptcy. Your articles, sections and clauses are all hearsay, bunk, fake news that are nothing but a teleprompter script for Fox News or Rush Limblaug. Treason, Fraud, Willful Deceit and Soliciting Prostitution which has always been his prime egotistical demeanor.
Look those up for starters and see if I am changing my statement.

@Nevermind345
A) It wasn't my post
B) The post was about the process for impeaching the guy you're ranting about which you IGNORED completely
C) I prosecuted those people you say are guilty
D) Try any find where I've written any articles, sections or clauses supporting the Felon In Chief
E) Look all that up

@Nevermind345 OK I get where you are coming from, but I am working on the ground to remind people who want an impeachment what it truly is. It is NOT putting the high official in jail, just removal from office. It is important to understand the rules if you are going to play the game. I have also taught this to my university students over the years. Most are surprised that the rules are not more comprehensive. Finally, I write an opinion column for my local paper which both of my Senators and my Representative read. I am doing my part - so what have you done lately?

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Personal guess it that if he makes it through the mid-terms without a 2/3 blue wave then he'll make it to 2020 where he will choose not to run again as opposed to losing which will be the likely outcome.

Of course that's based on a person who employs reason and logic looking at the situation he is in now. The same likelihood exists that he starts a war with Antartica over Twitter and somehow we lose and he signs over the US to Russia after it's decided that Enron can't "make a comeback and run the government."

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Maybe he will just leave and say he has bigger and better things to do.

We can all dream!

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