Can you impeach the President and the Vice President at the same time?

[RoeVWade]

I have no idea even if there is mass disenchantment in midterms if we could end up with enough members in the house and senate to impeach and convict both of them, but it's nice thought.

[RoeVWade]

1. Probably take some resignations or something as well.

nt*

[Traildogbob]

2. But Moses Mike

Then will be next.

[RoeVWade]

5. Yeah, oh .... But wouldn't they have to elect a new speaker if they lose the majority? Be a Democrat.

nt*

[Traildogbob]

10. I am not sure of that succession

But there is not any positive with any republican.
How far down until MTG?

[marble falls]

3. But they have to take Speaker Johnson down with them.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. If democrats win the house in 26

Johnson will no longer be speaker

[TexLaProgressive]

4. Don't know but if it can and succeed

Milquetoast Johnson would be president

[Polybius]

7. I think the poster is saying after the 2026 elections

Because he was talking about if we get big majorities. If we do, Jefferies (or his replacement) will be Speaker.

[Polybius]

6. I think so, or at least immediately after, but this raises the more important question:

What did Vance to to warrant impeachment?

[jmowreader]

17. Investigate Our Ohio Renewal

This is a 501(C)(3) Vance helped start to supposedly fix the problems he wrote about in Hillbilly Elegy. It...didn't.

I figure it this way: The GOP was trying damned hard to impeach President Clinton over Whitewater, which happened long before he was president. If they can try to impeach over things a Democrat did before he was in federal office, we can do the same thing.

[Polybius]

18. But they never impeached him over Whitewater

It was all talk and a sham.

[Callie1979]

8. Two impeachments would be done I'd guess.

And if it was possible to do them simultaneously would we end up with Pres Johnson?
At this point I'd take him

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. Johnson would not be speaker

if democrats win the house in 26.

[Callie1979]

23. I mean if they grew a backbone and did it before then.

[SocialDemocrat61]

24. When pigs fly 🤣

[Initech]

9. The entire republican party needs to be impeached. They're all in on it.

[lastlib]

11. Theoretically possible, but practically difficult.....

I do see issues with trying them simultaneously in the Senate-- and if the president was tried first and convicted, would you swear in as president a VP who is under impechment himself? A real can of worms, that would be.....

[GreenWave]

12. They forced corrupt Agnew out first

and then went after Milhouse.

[Mountainguy]

15. We'd have to flip 18 senate seats.

That's not going to happen.

[Polybius]

19. I'd say more

While every Democrat might vote to convict Trump, I can't imagine them convicting Vance.

[Mountainguy]

21. True

But if we won 18 senate seats there would probably be a lot of electoral demand to impeach Trump. At that point there might even be republicans willing to convict.

[jmowreader]

16. In theory you could impeach the entire administration at one time

A simultaneous impeachment has NEVER been done in the history of the United States, but if Congress finally got sick of Trump's shit (like, say, the bastard went to Congress and demand they give him permission to invade Greenland) and decided to clean out the entire Trump Administration at one time...well, let me theorize:

1. Enter Articles of Impeachment against the entire Administration in the House. This means Trump, Vance, the 21 Cabinet secretaries and Cabinet-level non-secretaries like the Director of National Intelligence, plus the White House Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary and Elon Musk.
2. Spend about a week arguing in the House about the pros and cons of getting rid of each one of them.
3. Spend a day voting to impeach each one and refer them to the Senate for trial.
4. After this is done, hold a vote to reduce Mike Johnson from the Speakership to a regular Representative and elevate someone else to the Speaker's chair. And to be very blunt, after all the shit the Trump people did this person had damn well better be a Democrat. My recommendation is Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO). It's easy to argue that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) would be an awesome president, but an emergency president is going to have to unify the country and the MAGAts would respect Crow because he's a combat veteran, hunter and gun owner.
5. Spend a week in the Senate arguing about the pros and cons of convicting each one of them.
6. Spend a day voting to convict each one. This you could whip through pretty easily - ten-minute voting periods on each one. Do Musk first and Trump last. Once this is done, pronounce sentence on all of them at one time.

At this point, assuming all 26 people have been convicted, you have a completely empty White House. Because the Speaker is in the presidential line of succession Jason Crow is now president. His first act after being sworn in will be to overturn all of Trump's executive orders.

[Polybius]

20. And then the Civil War breaks out

Not worth it, imo.

[jmowreader]

22. I figure Trump is going to goad his followers into starting shooting right after the 2026 election anyway

[alarimer]

25. There is no way they would even leave if convicted.

So I don't know what they answer is.

They are all so brazenly criminal.

[surfered]

26. Don't know, but if it were done, Speaker Johnson would become President

[Ocelot II]

27. Hypothetically yes, but with both Trump and Vance gone

we'd get Mike Johnson - not exactly an improvement.

[Raven123]

28. Don't think so

But you could come close. Can only run one trial at a time.

[patphil]

29. All this is a moot point; we would need 20 Republican Senators to vote to convict.

This assumes all 47 Democrats in the Senate vote to convict.
But, in theory it could be done.