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Consider impeachment but no conviction in the next 12 months, followed by (god forbid) Trump getting re-elected. Given the coming due of all the spin-off cases of Mueller, the (where is it already?) counterintelligence investigation, and Trump own mob tactics and general disregard for the law, it would seem to me that there will more impeachable fodder over the next few years if he were still in office.
Could he be impeached a second time? It would give him valid bragging rights for something...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,743 posts)But it probably wouldn't be politically supportable.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)President again.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,743 posts)as the House wants to do it if you're acquitted every time and stay in office.
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StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...so, yes, if they found something more, they could impeach him again. But, if the first impeachment fails, and he gets re-elected anyway, its hard to imagine the political will to try again, unless the offense was unimaginably worse than what weve already seen.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,743 posts)Double indemnity is a clause in life insurance policies that doubles the payout in some cases of accidental death.
unblock
(52,257 posts)There's no concept of double jeopardy. Just like they can try to repeal Obamacare 67 times or whatever, we could impeach Donnie 67 times.
In practice, though, politics probably makes it a one-time deal unless the situation really changes between the two attempts.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)elias7
(4,009 posts)UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Celerity
(43,419 posts)The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was initiated on February 24, 1868, when the United States House of Representatives resolved to impeach Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, for "high crimes and misdemeanors", which were detailed in 11 articles of impeachment.
The primary charge against Johnson was violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress in March 1867, over his veto. Specifically, he had removed from office Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of Warwhom the Act was largely designed to protectand attempted to replace him with Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas. (Earlier, while the Congress was not in session, Johnson had suspended Stanton and appointed General Ulysses S. Grant as Secretary of War ad interim.)
Johnson became the first American president to be impeached (the only one prior to Bill Clinton in 1998) on March 23, 1868, when the House formally adopted the articles of impeachment and forwarded them to the United States Senate for adjudication.
The trial in the Senate began three days later, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. On May 16, the Senate failed to convict Johnson on one of the articles, with the 3519 vote in favor of conviction falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority by a single vote.
A ten-day recess was called before attempting to convict him on additional articles. The delay did not change the outcome, however, as on May 26, it failed to convict the president on two articles, both by the same margin; after which the trial was adjourned.
Bonx
(2,053 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)I'm still pulling for ONE although Mitch McConnell can go fuck himself and maybe I had a lot of vodka already.