a perfect impeachment...

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a perfect impeachment... - Lemmy.zip

# I would certainly love to be proven wrong about this ::: spoiler transcription: ___ Men’s Warehouse Guy: Trump just handed the Democrats an airtight impeachment case… …but they won’t prosecute him for this, I guarantee it. :::

Blame the republicans.

Dems introduced articles of impeachment in April and once again in December. But the Dems don’t have the majority in the congress, and they were tabled by the GOP.

Please recall Democrats had FOUR YEARS to prepare for another Trump campaign, including two years of majority.

The filibuster/cloture can be ignored by them at will with a simple majority vote.

The senate doesn’t “need” a two thirds majority. It makes bills “exceptions” to that majority vote with regularity, hundreds of exceptions; it’s a senate rule and not law.

The senate could have convicted him and barred him from holding office for his entire life. That’s their job. they are the only ones who can do it.

The 2/3 requirement for conviction in the senate is required by the constitution. It is not a senate rule and is separate from the filibuster.
You are right, IMPEACHMENT is 50/50 and CONVICTION is 2/3, thank you for correction.