If the Trump Administration actually defies the orders

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73. The Senate as it stands

is 52 (R) to 48 (D + I). It's not that far apart and the committees are reflecting almost equal membership because of this.

The key is that although there are more D seats up in 2018, if things are bad enough, we can hopefully hold what we have and perhaps get some of the few centrist Rs to convict if it ever got that far (i.e., in politics - these folks are out to save their butts and will throw anything and everything under the bus to do so).

But note that historically, the "threat" of the impeachment of Nixon for the Watergate coverup caused him to resign before the process played out. And he was already playing with a losing deck due to Spiro Agnew having to resign less than a year before due to the usual GOP transgressions of bribes, fraud, and other malfeasance.