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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConstitutionality Of 'Out Of Office' Impeachment Trial
According to Alexander Hamilton, impeachment is comprised of TWO HALVES.
"the powers relating to impeachments are, as before intimated, an essential check in the hands of that body upon the encroachments of the executive. The division of them between the two branches of the legislature, assigning to one the right of accusing, to the other the right of judging, avoids the inconvenience of making the same persons both accusers and judges; and guards against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit in either of those branches. As the concurrence of two thirds of the Senate will be requisite to a condemnation, the security to innocence, from this additional circumstance, will be as complete as itself can desire."
Federalist No. 66 [link:http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_66.html|
It's not unlike a death penalty murder trial. The first half is about guilt or innocence, and if found guilty, the second half debates the death penalty.
The Repubs claim that an impeachment trial after someone leaves office is unconstitutional is UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.
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Constitutionality Of 'Out Of Office' Impeachment Trial (Original Post)
WHITT
Feb 2021
OP
So they claim that we can't touch him during his time in office, and now we can't touch him
SWBTATTReg
Feb 2021
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(51,974 posts)1. The Republican Party specializes in utterly ridiculous.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. Welcone to DU, Whitt!
Great place to be! Welcone home!
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)3. So they claim that we can't touch him during his time in office, and now we can't touch him
afterwards?