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According to US law, a president can be impeached even if he is no longer in office.
by sn41 6y ago
According to US law, a president can be impeached even if he is no longer in office.
- chii 6y agoTrump is already impeached - which is not removal, but a judgement at the impeachment trial that he is not fit for president. Unfortunately, the senate did not act on the impeachment judgement and thus did not get removed from office.
- jki275 6y agoNo. Impeachment is simply an indictment. We all know indictments work. The famous ham sandwich. The senate then takes up the indictment and as in every case to date, acquits the president. The bar to a successful removal from office is quite high and is so for a reason. There is no “impeachment trial” that results in an impeachment. There is a majority democrat house who decided to vote on an impeachment and send it to the senate for a trial. The senate the held a trial and acquitted.
- jki275 6y agoThat doesn’t even make any sense.
- sn41 6y agoIt is used primarily to make the person ineligible for that post again, to ensure that he does not run again for president, for example.
- koheripbal 6y agoIn this case, it's really more optics. He has zero chance of ever being re-elected to the Presidency.
- jki275 6y agoAlan Dershowitz: “The case cannot come to trial in the Senate. Because the Senate has rules and the rules would not allow the case to come to trial until, according to the majority leader, until 1 PM on January 20th an hour after President Trump leaves office. And the Constitution specifically says, “The President shall be removed from office upon impeachment.” It doesn’t say the former president. Congress has no power to impeach or try a private citizen, whether it be a private citizen named Donald Trump or named Barack Obama or anyone else.”