14-01-2021, 16:35
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: U.S Election 2020
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
According to Sky News today:
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What is impeachment?
A misconception about impeachment is that it refers to the removal of a president from office.
In fact, it refers only to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress, bringing charges that a president engaged in a "high crime or misdemeanour".
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https://news.sky.com/story/donald-tr...-time-12186887 |
Interesting point from ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/impe...ry?id=51202880
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Where does the Senate come in?
The Senate is tasked with handling the impeachment trial, which is presided over by the chief justice of the United States. To remove a president from office, two-thirds of the members must vote in favor – at present 67.
If the Senate fails to convict, a president is considered impeached but is not removed, as was the case with both Clinton in 1998 and Andrew Johnson in 1868. In Johnson’s case, the Senate fell one vote short of removing him from office on all three counts.
While the Senate trial has the power to oust a president from office, and ban him or her from running for future office, it does not have the power to send a president to jail. Disqualification from holding office, a separate process, requires a simple majority vote, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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I did not know that.
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