Likely House Managers will be successful during the first day debate about the Constitutional Ability to even create the Senate Trial of the Article of Impeachment. The reason is that the Senate already--decades ago--settled the issue. The impeached at that time was a Secretary of War, Belknap. At the bottom of the article linked, there is that and also another one named.
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Scholar Frank O. Bowman also pointed out another precedent: the 1876 impeachment trial of William Belknap, who served as Secretary of War for President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap faced allegations of receiving kickbacks, and he resigned moments before the House approved articles of impeachment. The House charged Belknap with “basely prostituting his high office to his lust for private gain.” At Belknap’s trial, the Senate passed a motion in a 37 to 29 vote that “William W. Belknap, the respondent, is amenable to trial by impeachment for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office before he was impeached.” The Senate later acquitted Belknap on all charges, lacking a two-thirds majority to convict.
A third precedent is the case of federal judge West Hughes Humphries. Humphries left the federal bench in Tennessee to join the Confederacy as a judge without resigning his federal commission. In January 1862, House member John Bingham led the investigating committee, which charged Humphries with high crimes and misdemeanors. The Senate found Humphries guilty on seven charges in June 1862, and in a separate vote, a unanimous Senate disqualified Humphries from holding federal office again.
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Pundits agree that the Trumped-Up Administration had effectively abdicated presidential duties by November 5, 2020(?)! Still, the actual term went through to completion, timely creating the Impeachment Article with the basis in the widely known evidence. A Senate vote was taken, and passed: even in 1876.
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!'
(Pharaoh's subjugation, alliance arithmetic: Is alleged of a deity, even now: Deut: 23: 19-20. The precedent created the fact of Holocaust, according to many, over the centuries.)
Can President Trump be impeached after he leaves office? | Constitution Center
The expected impeachment proceedings on Wednesday against President Donald J. Trump will surface one of the Constitution’s most arcane questions: Can a federal official be removed from office if he’s already left the building?
constitutioncenter.org
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Scholar Frank O. Bowman also pointed out another precedent: the 1876 impeachment trial of William Belknap, who served as Secretary of War for President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap faced allegations of receiving kickbacks, and he resigned moments before the House approved articles of impeachment. The House charged Belknap with “basely prostituting his high office to his lust for private gain.” At Belknap’s trial, the Senate passed a motion in a 37 to 29 vote that “William W. Belknap, the respondent, is amenable to trial by impeachment for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office before he was impeached.” The Senate later acquitted Belknap on all charges, lacking a two-thirds majority to convict.
A third precedent is the case of federal judge West Hughes Humphries. Humphries left the federal bench in Tennessee to join the Confederacy as a judge without resigning his federal commission. In January 1862, House member John Bingham led the investigating committee, which charged Humphries with high crimes and misdemeanors. The Senate found Humphries guilty on seven charges in June 1862, and in a separate vote, a unanimous Senate disqualified Humphries from holding federal office again.
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Pundits agree that the Trumped-Up Administration had effectively abdicated presidential duties by November 5, 2020(?)! Still, the actual term went through to completion, timely creating the Impeachment Article with the basis in the widely known evidence. A Senate vote was taken, and passed: even in 1876.
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!'
(Pharaoh's subjugation, alliance arithmetic: Is alleged of a deity, even now: Deut: 23: 19-20. The precedent created the fact of Holocaust, according to many, over the centuries.)
