Senate cannot try a private citizen !!!

The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.

I never said it did...But, EVERY American is afforded due process....where was that?

And, now even though it is expressed that the Chief Justice “SHALL” preside. Roberts wants nothing to do with this Kangaroo lynch mob of yours, so, they are installing Patrick Lehey....Are you freakin serious?

Pelosi, and Democrats, as well as anyone supporting this crap are anti American assholes.
true!
Every American is granted due process in a criminal trial, because their freedom can be taken from them, by incarceration.

Impeachment can not strip freedom. It's a political process.

None the less, President Trump, during his trial will get his due process....He can testify on his own behalf, his law team can call witnesses, and question any witness the House Managers present, they can present evidence on TRUMPs behalf to counter the accusations etc etc etc....

Ok, so you agree that the house process was irregular. Now, show me where a private citizen can be tried by the Senate. Also, if it is an impeachment trial, why isn’t the Chief Justice going to be the presiding officer, and what is the punishment on conviction.
 
The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.
You cannot remove what is not there. Democrats have conducted a four year sideshow. If anybody embarrasses this country it is those assholes.
There are two separate votes required to complete a Senate impeachment trial.

One VOTE to convict and remove from office or not. Takes 2/3s voting to convict.

And the second, separate vote required, which only requires a majority vote, not the 2/3s vote, is whether or not to strip those impeached, from ever holding office again.

You can't vote to strip him from holding office again, without the impeachment trial, and that vote cast...

Thus, his holding office or not, matters naught....

Pelosi, or Schumer has no right to tell us who we can vote for.
 
The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.

I never said it did...But, EVERY American is afforded due process....where was that?

And, now even though it is expressed that the Chief Justice “SHALL” preside. Roberts wants nothing to do with this Kangaroo lynch mob of yours, so, they are installing Patrick Lehey....Are you freakin serious?

Pelosi, and Democrats, as well as anyone supporting this crap are anti American assholes.
So sue Justice Roberts. Take it to the Supreme Court. I'm sure they'll take the case. LOL

Elections have consequences, right?
Of coirse you miss the point. The Chief Justice of SCOTUS SHALL preside. Not may, or “we can put the slobbering Leahy in there”. SHALL. Roberts has already shot down your bullshit and said it isn’t legal. Go ahead and embarrass yourselves more. See moron, they would take the case. And you would lose.
Roberts never said such about the trial being a sham. He simply is copping out on being the presiding judge and out of the political limelight, because he can...constitutionally....

oh, show me that in the constitution
 
Hey fuckwad, if you have no witnesses, you have no case. Those “witnesses” of your stupidity never testified doofus. Clinton was impeached for lying to Congress moron. How many times do you have to be told this? Lost jobs? That’s on blue state governors who refused to open their states. Riots? That’s on you and your side idiot. Do us a favor and leave our country since you hate it so much. Nobody will miss you.

Clinton wasn't impeached for lying to Congress, he was impeached for not admitting to getting a blow job in a civil case that was dismissed as having no merit.

If Trump escapes impeachment this time, it will only be because of the cowardice of the Republican Party.

Sadly, the cowardice of the GOP has been the story of the last four years.

lol....So, once again the GOP, must do what YOU want them to eh? What a little snot you are.
 
The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.
You cannot remove what is not there. Democrats have conducted a four year sideshow. If anybody embarrasses this country it is those assholes.
There are two separate votes required to complete a Senate impeachment trial.

One VOTE to convict and remove from office or not. Takes 2/3s voting to convict.

And the second, separate vote required, which only requires a majority vote, not the 2/3s vote, is whether or not to strip those impeached, from ever holding office again.

You can't vote to strip him from holding office again, without the impeachment trial, and that vote cast...

Thus, his holding office or not, matters naught....
Why are they so scared of one man? This much fuss you can bet he was working for the people. That is not done in DC. He had to be doing something right and that is not done in DC either.

You have admitted fraud by hiding evidence and censorship of the topic. You know you cannot beat him in a fair election. That is what you are admitting now. How is that serving the people like the government should?
We did beat him, by a landslide...7 million plus votes and 306 to 232 electoral votes.

Trump concocted the Big Lie, that the election was stolen from him months before the election was held, when his internal polling told him he was going to lose big-time to Biden.
You defrauded Trump. There was massive fraud and now a massive cover up that has failed.
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud. You've been convinced there was... I can see that...but you've been conned, by a bunch of con artists...God as my witness!
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud.
No. There was truly and honestly massive fraud. Biden is a BOGUS POTUS.
Then tell me exactly what massive voter fraud took place, in at least 3 to 4 of these contentious battle ground, that would have been enough, to over turn that state's election.

There have been so many bogus claims that truly have been debunked, many because procedures were just misunderstood and even twisted to appear bad, when they weren't.

But if there are any that I may not have researched yet, I'd like to know them...So I can dig in to the details.

The Trump team of lawyers have act u ally not brought any actual fraud cases to court. All those cases that dems remind trumpets they lost in court were not fraud cases, but election law procedural issues... and they brought the same procedural issues to as many as ten states, losing in all of them, because the relief they were asking in every one of those cases, was to invalidate ALL absentee ballots in a county with a big city, and mostly minority voters, legally and constitutionally granted the rig h t to vote...because a handful of absentee ballot envelopes May have had a signature not checked, and things like that...and the case Judges basically said, ARE YOU CRAZY? to the Trump lawyers.

No cases of vote switching, or Dominion voting machine irregularities, or milktary swat teams capturing voter servers in Germany, or ballot stuffing, or any of the accusations made by Giuliani and team, in your right wing media was brought to court, by Giuliani and team....not one....ask yourself why not even one?

My bet is the law teams know if they presented a known bogus claim to the court, they could lose their law licences or censured in the least.

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Trump has to overturn too many states, to even come close to winning enough electoral votes... It's an impossible task, imo.

Did, or did not states change voting laws, and proceedures without going through the legislative process, yes or no?
 
Pelosi, and Democrats, as well as anyone supporting this crap are anti American assholes.
Elections have consequences, right?


THAT'S RIGHT, Old Bag, elections do have consequences, that is why it is so vital to ensure our elections are legal, fair, straight-up and HONEST, not like the disaster of last year being quickly swept under the rug before it can be investigated while every question into it remains unanswered and deflected.

EXACTLY BECAUSE elections DO have consequences, like electing a patriot, America first, for the people, pro-business president like Donald Trump vs. a socialist, globalist, minority-driven racist, sexist, climate-alarmist like Joe Biden whose first act in office was to put 30,000 people out of work for no good reason endangering the ecology with the stroke of a pen.

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You have admitted fraud by hiding evidence and censorship of the topic.
We did beat him, by a landslide...7 million plus votes


IN A PIG'S EYE.
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Those results were the most specious in history, done

under the most peculiar and irregular, even illegal circumstances in history, and the most challenged and disputed in history, with NONE of the questions or challenges resolved so far nor answered, none of the evidence examined, vetted and proven false.

BIDEN'S ELECTION IS A STATISTICAL AND MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY.

I live in a blue city in a blue state and still haven't met one person who likes him. There are still Trump signs seen here and there in yards!

The man who never got a shave of the vote in any previous election bid, barely held at #3 in the primaries with the LEAST popular person as his VP, ran no campaign, got no attendance at rallies, doesn't have a single policy attribute anyone is proud of, had no turnout at his inauguration, yet set breathtaking new numbers of votes for him despite Trump the most popular president ever actually GAINING in popularity over 2016?

YOU MAKE ME FUCKING LAUGH.
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under the most peculiar and irregular, even illegal circumstances in history, and the most challenged and disputed in history, with NONE of the questions or challenges resolved so far nor answered, none of the evidence examined, vetted and proven false.

BIDEN'S ELECTION IS A STATISTICAL AND MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY.

What are the mathematical odds that Georgia would elect two democratic senators?

Those odds are even bigger than for them voting for Biden, but it happened. And it happened while everybody was watching.
 
Impeachment can not strip freedom. It's a political process. None the less, President Trump, during his trial will get his due process....
Now, show me where a private citizen can be tried by the Senate. Also, if it is an impeachment trial, why isn’t the Chief Justice going to be the presiding officer, and what is the punishment on conviction.

  • If impeachment is a political process, then how can it apply to a private citizen?

  • If Trump will get his due process, then why was it absent and grossly violated in the first impeachment?

  • The senate made special provisions long ago to try a private citizen ex-senator out of office. That action tortured the law and begs the question: do two wrongs make a right? And is a president to be lowered to the level of a mere senator?

  • Nancy has said that Trump must be impeached to prevent future presidents from committing malfeasance as they leave office, but isn't it at least as great a concern that we don't rush pell mell into granting the Congress unlimited powers to prosecute anyone anywhere in the country in office or out? Public or private citizen? And is this yet another of Nancy's alarmist rants like her fears Trump couldn't be trusted with the nuclear codes? Trump the anti-war president!

  • With Chief Justice recognizing he has no role in presiding over an impeachment of a person who isn't even a president anymore, where does that leave the Senate when the very purpose, goal and remedy of convicting a president of impeachment is to REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE?

AMERICA: once again put on trial with another Democrat shit show as McConnell and the GOP sit by with thumbs firmly planted in asses.



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The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.
You cannot remove what is not there. Democrats have conducted a four year sideshow. If anybody embarrasses this country it is those assholes.
There are two separate votes required to complete a Senate impeachment trial.

One VOTE to convict and remove from office or not. Takes 2/3s voting to convict.

And the second, separate vote required, which only requires a majority vote, not the 2/3s vote, is whether or not to strip those impeached, from ever holding office again.

You can't vote to strip him from holding office again, without the impeachment trial, and that vote cast...

Thus, his holding office or not, matters naught....
Why are they so scared of one man? This much fuss you can bet he was working for the people. That is not done in DC. He had to be doing something right and that is not done in DC either.

You have admitted fraud by hiding evidence and censorship of the topic. You know you cannot beat him in a fair election. That is what you are admitting now. How is that serving the people like the government should?
We did beat him, by a landslide...7 million plus votes and 306 to 232 electoral votes.

Trump concocted the Big Lie, that the election was stolen from him months before the election was held, when his internal polling told him he was going to lose big-time to Biden.
You defrauded Trump. There was massive fraud and now a massive cover up that has failed.
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud. You've been convinced there was... I can see that...but you've been conned, by a bunch of con artists...God as my witness!
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud.
No. There was truly and honestly massive fraud. Biden is a BOGUS POTUS.
Then tell me exactly what massive voter fraud took place, in at least 3 to 4 of these contentious battle ground, that would have been enough, to over turn that state's election.

There have been so many bogus claims that truly have been debunked, many because procedures were just misunderstood and even twisted to appear bad, when they weren't.

But if there are any that I may not have researched yet, I'd like to know them...So I can dig in to the details.

The Trump team of lawyers have act u ally not brought any actual fraud cases to court. All those cases that dems remind trumpets they lost in court were not fraud cases, but election law procedural issues... and they brought the same procedural issues to as many as ten states, losing in all of them, because the relief they were asking in every one of those cases, was to invalidate ALL absentee ballots in a county with a big city, and mostly minority voters, legally and constitutionally granted the rig h t to vote...because a handful of absentee ballot envelopes May have had a signature not checked, and things like that...and the case Judges basically said, ARE YOU CRAZY? to the Trump lawyers.

No cases of vote switching, or Dominion voting machine irregularities, or milktary swat teams capturing voter servers in Germany, or ballot stuffing, or any of the accusations made by Giuliani and team, in your right wing media was brought to court, by Giuliani and team....not one....ask yourself why not even one?

My bet is the law teams know if they presented a known bogus claim to the court, they could lose their law licences or censured in the least.

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Trump has to overturn too many states, to even come close to winning enough electoral votes... It's an impossible task, imo.

Did, or did not states change voting laws, and proceedures without going through the legislative process, yes or no?
 
  • Nancy has said that Trump must be impeached to prevent future presidents from committing malfeasance as they leave office, but isn't it at least as great a concern that we don't rush pell mell into granting the Congress unlimited powers to prosecute anyone anywhere in the country in office or out? Public or private citizen?

Trump was not a private citizen when he was impeached, that's an obvious FACT.

The senate holds the trial for those people impeached.

Nothing in the constitution suggests somebody can escape by running out the clock.
 
Biden won and is the President living in the WH. Trump was impeached for a second time and his trial will begin in the Senate in two weeks. USMB Trump fans are in denial and delusional.
 
Biden won and is the President living in the WH. Trump was impeached for a second time and his trial will begin in the Senate in two weeks. USMB Trump fans are in denial and delusional.

They ran the same play when they said the affordable care act (Obamacare) was unconstitutional, because the government didn't have to power to force people to buy something.
 
The Senate has already impeached and tried an office holder, the secretary of war, after he no longer held the seat.


He was not the president, the constitution specifically enumerates the president and assigns him special powers and privileges and this conviction will be fought fiercely, especially when the charge is specious and gratuitous. There was no insurrection, not even the people actually ARRESTED there are being charged as such and Trump had no hand, conscious or otherwise in directing them.

Get stuffed.
Trump had everything to do with it.... He seeded the big lie, and egged it on.

As far as your c l aim the President is different than the vp and office holders......your claim, has no legs.

The constitution's impeachment clause is written with all three positions are held equally, in the same sentence regarding impeachment.



The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Very nice. Trump is no longer in office. They are scared he will run again and it will be much harder to defraud him a second time. That is the truth, try admitting it.
They are most certainly trying to strip him from being able to run for any office, ever again. It's the sole purpose for the impeachment, even after he no longer held the office. No one is hiding that purpose.

Then that would fail since this process is unconstitutional
What process is unconstitutional? Impeachment?

There is no Mulligan for a President or any office holder, committing an abusive or criminal act, 2 weeks from leaving office.... impeachment does not just disappear because the abuse took place two weeks from leaving.
You cannot remove what is not there. Democrats have conducted a four year sideshow. If anybody embarrasses this country it is those assholes.
There are two separate votes required to complete a Senate impeachment trial.

One VOTE to convict and remove from office or not. Takes 2/3s voting to convict.

And the second, separate vote required, which only requires a majority vote, not the 2/3s vote, is whether or not to strip those impeached, from ever holding office again.

You can't vote to strip him from holding office again, without the impeachment trial, and that vote cast...

Thus, his holding office or not, matters naught....
Why are they so scared of one man? This much fuss you can bet he was working for the people. That is not done in DC. He had to be doing something right and that is not done in DC either.

You have admitted fraud by hiding evidence and censorship of the topic. You know you cannot beat him in a fair election. That is what you are admitting now. How is that serving the people like the government should?
We did beat him, by a landslide...7 million plus votes and 306 to 232 electoral votes.

Trump concocted the Big Lie, that the election was stolen from him months before the election was held, when his internal polling told him he was going to lose big-time to Biden.
You defrauded Trump. There was massive fraud and now a massive cover up that has failed.
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud. You've been convinced there was... I can see that...but you've been conned, by a bunch of con artists...God as my witness!
There truly and honestly was no massive voter fraud.
No. There was truly and honestly massive fraud. Biden is a BOGUS POTUS.
Then tell me exactly what massive voter fraud took place, in at least 3 to 4 of these contentious battle ground, that would have been enough, to over turn that state's election.

There have been so many bogus claims that truly have been debunked, many because procedures were just misunderstood and even twisted to appear bad, when they weren't.

But if there are any that I may not have researched yet, I'd like to know them...So I can dig in to the details.

The Trump team of lawyers have act u ally not brought any actual fraud cases to court. All those cases that dems remind trumpets they lost in court were not fraud cases, but election law procedural issues... and they brought the same procedural issues to as many as ten states, losing in all of them, because the relief they were asking in every one of those cases, was to invalidate ALL absentee ballots in a county with a big city, and mostly minority voters, legally and constitutionally granted the rig h t to vote...because a handful of absentee ballot envelopes May have had a signature not checked, and things like that...and the case Judges basically said, ARE YOU CRAZY? to the Trump lawyers.

No cases of vote switching, or Dominion voting machine irregularities, or milktary swat teams capturing voter servers in Germany, or ballot stuffing, or any of the accusations made by Giuliani and team, in your right wing media was brought to court, by Giuliani and team....not one....ask yourself why not even one?

My bet is the law teams know if they presented a known bogus claim to the court, they could lose their law licences or censured in the least.

---------

Trump has to overturn too many states, to even come close to winning enough electoral votes... It's an impossible task, imo.

Did, or did not states change voting laws, and proceedures without going through the legislative process, yes or no?

cant see your response
 
  • Nancy has said that Trump must be impeached to prevent future presidents from committing malfeasance as they leave office, but isn't it at least as great a concern that we don't rush pell mell into granting the Congress unlimited powers to prosecute anyone anywhere in the country in office or out? Public or private citizen?

Trump was not a private citizen when he was impeached, that's an obvious FACT.

The senate holds the trial for those people impeached.

Nothing in the constitution suggests somebody can escape by running out the clock.

Can the Senate now, going forward, hold impeachment proceedings for any former official? Point that out please in the constitution
 
Biden won and is the President living in the WH. Trump was impeached for a second time and his trial will begin in the Senate in two weeks. USMB Trump fans are in denial and delusional.

I think history will judge both Democrat led Kangaroo proceedings for what they are, a shameful display of contempt, and over reach.
 
Senate cannot try a private citizen !!!

Now to put an end to the OP, once and for all

Not only can the senate try a private citizen, they have.



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Black held him in contempt of Congress and ordered Senate sergeant at arm Chesley Jurney toarrest him.

The Senate quickly adopted a resolution ordering MacCracken to be arrested and brought
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be dropped. He claimed the Senate did not have jurisdiction to try and convict his client because
MacCracken had purged himself of all charges when he turned over the required documents to Congress.

The Senate handed down its decision in open session on February 15.

It found MacCracken and Brittin guilty of contempt of Congress and acquitted Hanshue and Givvin. The
votes to convict MacCracken and Brittin followed party lines with most republicans voting in
favor of convictions and all Democrats and progressive Republicans voting against. The Senate
sentenced MacCracken and Brittin to 10 days in the District of Columbia jail.
 
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Can the Senate now, going forward, hold impeachment proceedings for any former official? Point that out please in the constitution
The house can only impeach officers of the US. So a former official would not be subject to impeachment.

But remember, that's a bar on impeachment, not a bar on the senate trying the impeachments presented to it.
 
Clinton wasn't impeached for lying to Congress, he was impeached for not admitting to getting a blow job in a civil case that was dismissed as having no merit.

STOP THE LYING.

Bill Clinton was not Impeached for getting a blow job or for lying to Congress, and his civil case was NOT stopped because it had no merit. You are a LIAR, and you have never stopped telling the same lie after it has been debunked over and over.

Bill Clinton was found Guilty of Contempt of Court in a civil case in which he was being sued for Sexual Harassment. The Judge ruled him to be in Contempt of Court for being DISHONEST and for ATTEMPTING TO MISLEAD THE COURT, JURY, AND JUDGE.

For his crime he was publicly rebuked and was stripped of his license to practice law in Arkansas.

The sexual predator and pedophile took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and Constitutional Rights of Americans, but that day in court President Clinton attempted to deny the plaintiff a fair and honest trial by lying his ass off and attempting to mislead the court.

It was for this violation of his oath and the breach of trust with the American people that he was Impeached.

As far as the court case, it was NOT dropped for 'lack of merit'. After his actions the case was tossed - a new trial was probably going to follow. So, Slick Willy PAID HER OFF - PAID HER TO GO AWAY.

Again, you are a lying sack of shit who has proven you are willing to mislead and spew propaganda as Bill Clinton was that day in court.
 
Ok, so you agree that the house process was irregular. Now, show me where a private citizen can be tried by the Senate. Also, if it is an impeachment trial, why isn’t the Chief Justice going to be the presiding officer, and what is the punishment on conviction.
A former office holder, VP, or president can be impeached, not for things done after leaving office or as a private citizen, but for what they did while sitting in office.

We have done it before a couple of times... the latest was in 2010, for a former federal judge. And Also, we impeached and tried a former Secretary of War, William Belknap.

In 2010, when former federal Judge Thomas Porteous was impeached, Senate President Pro Tempore Daniel Inouye presided over the trial.



- the Chief justice, I just read in a fact check, was never even asked to preside over the impeachment because the President is no longer the sitting President.

The Constitution requires the involvement of the chief justice only when the president is on trial. Since Trump no longer is president, there is no requirement for the chief justice to be involved.

Newsweek found no evidence that Roberts refused or was even asked to preside over the trial, nor does he have any legal obligation to do so.

The chief justice is required to preside over impeachment trials involving only sitting presidents.



Impeachments are political proceedings, not criminal so there are no physical punishments like incarceration or fines if convicted.

If still sitting in office, there are two political punishments.

1- Removal from office
2- A ban on ever holding office again, if the majority votes to do so

These punishments are two separate votes.

- If a former office holder the political punishment after conviction in an impeachment trial is limited to #2, Ban on holding office again.
 

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