I wonder if when Trump is impeached whether

[LiberalFighter]

besides removing him from office and prohibiting him from holding any other office if Congress would also have the power to remove Secret Service protection and the pension.

[Hortensis]

1. Don't know about a pension, but SS no.

It would be obligatory by principle no matter what the law might require. Certainly no Democratic congress or DHS head would refuse it. And if there was any weakness in the law that allowed some spiteful Republicans to deny it, no doubt the first judge the case came before would order protection.

All unresearched off the top of my head, but I know this is how we roll. We would have a duty.

[Progressive Jones]

3. Even if Trump is somehow imprisoned for his crimes? nt

[Hortensis]

5. :) Got me there. Probably got the DHS also.

We've never had a president in prison. They might choose to set up a special prison detail within the existing prison security system. I imagine he'd be allowed to have a fair number of visitors and want to spend a fair amount of time taking calls and getting attention from fellow inmates in the common areas.

[ooky]

8. In solitary confinement he shouldn't need any more protection

and I don't see how they would put him in general population with secret service agents standing beside him.

[Progressive Jones]

4. A duty to protect a filthy traitor's miserable life? nt

[Hortensis]

6. Yes. Just the way it is. We're supposed to protect

and provide humane treatment to serial killers also. We fail too often because a lot of people feel as you do.

[Meadowoak]

2. When the impeachment begins, Trump will resign and Pence

Will grant him a full pardon. Trump knows what they will find, he is just playing a game of chicken now. He thinks the Democrats are afraid to begin impeachment.

[Hortensis]

7. Sure, but imagining Trump in prison is pleasant.

IF he inherited his father's apparent late-onset Alzheimer's, and around 79% do, he probably wouldn't spend much more than a decade there anyway. It might not take much decline from his already dysfunctional baseline to qualify him for compassionate release to whatever paid care his children arranged. At a guess, Ivanka's job.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. No he won't...

Trump knows impeachment won't remove him from office. He also knows he has a Republican Party that will support his deflection and obstruction of any impeachment hearing. What we're seeing play out with subpoenas and Barr refusing to hand over evidence, is exactly what will play out with impeachment. Trump is banking on stonewalling long enough that the American people burn out on the investigation and decide to support moving on - leaving the Democrats politically impotent.

[marble falls]

10. And right out there on the Portico with muffled drumming, he has the sleeves ripped ...

off his suit jacket, they cut the buttons off his shirt, they reset the code words to the "football" right in front of him for acting President Pelosi, and Jimmy Fallon has to give him a knuckle head like he really means it this time.

In the cop car ahead, Mike Pence is still seeing stars from when the US Marshal accidentally let the former VP's head hit the frame of the door while getting him handcuffed into the back seat.

[StarfishSaver]

11. No

Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution limits the Senate's available penalties:

"{J}udgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”