Rigby5
Diamond Member
You're misguided understanding of events aside. Do you even know what the definition of treason is as defined by our Constitution?
Do you ever have the courage to call people Nazis to their face? Cuz, I'm itching to travel.
I am far left, but one failed impeachment is horrific, and two is absurdly criminal.
The way they were done also was totally corrupt.
Here is what the constitution outlines for a presidential impeachment:
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At the federal level, the impeachment process is a three-step procedure.[17]
- First, the Congress investigates. This investigation typically begins in the House Judiciary Committee, but may begin elsewhere. For example, the Nixon impeachment inquiry began in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The facts that led to impeachment of Bill Clinton were first discovered in the course of an investigation by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. During the second impeachment of Donald Trump this step was skipped.
- Second, the House of Representatives must pass, by a simple majority of those present and voting, articles of impeachment, which constitute the formal allegation or allegations. Upon passage, the defendant has been "impeached".
- Third, the Senate tries the accused. In the case of the impeachment of a president, the chief justice of the United States presides over the proceedings. For the impeachment of any other official, the Constitution is silent on who shall preside, suggesting that this role falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer, the president of the Senate, who is also the vice president of the United States. Conviction in the Senate requires the concurrence of a two-thirds supermajority of those present. The result of conviction is removal from office and (optionally, in a separate vote) disqualification from holding any federal office in the future, which requires a concurrence of only a majority of senators present.[18][19][20]
Notice the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS is supposed to preside over third step, the Senate proceedings?
Well that never happened.
So then the impeachments were not conducted according to the Constitution.
Why I do not know, but that made them illegal.