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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaniel Dale, CNN - Fact check: No, impeachment itself would not ban Trump from a 2024 run
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fact-check-tweet-trump-impeachment-run-2024-secret-service/index.html
procon
(15,805 posts)Trump is convicted on the impeachment charges.they gotta do both.
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(52,331 posts)i can't see 17 republicans agreeing to convict, but *if* they agreed to that, i can't imagine why they wouldn't vote to bar him from future federal office; in fact, that might be the *only* reason they would agree to vote to convict in the first place -- to prevent future retaliation from a re-elected donnie.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Happily
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(52,331 posts)But preventing him from ever becoming president again would be a key consideration for republicans to convict in the first place.
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(38,601 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)its a separate vote than removal and evidently its been used fro judges before to disqualify them in the future
Because conviction requires a two-thirds vote, this means that removal can occur only as a result of a two-thirds vote. Unlike removal, disqualification from office is a discretionary judgment, and there is no explicit constitutional linkage to the two-thirds vote on conviction. Although an argument can be made that disqualification should nonetheless require a two-thirds vote the Senate has determined that disqualification may be accomplished by a simple majority vote
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/section-4/impeachment
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(52,331 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,657 posts)EzraMarcus
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