Trump's Second Impeachment Trial

LOL @ Trump's lawyers. I think they got their defense plan from reading posts by our resident Trump apologists on the PC!

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Originally Posted by Back

LOL @ Trump's lawyers. I think they got their defense plan from reading posts by our resident Trump apologists on the PC!

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Do you seriously think he is going to be convicted in this unconstitutional farce?

They should just vote on disqualification since its a simple majority and be done with it.

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Originally Posted by drauz

They should just vote on disqualification since its a simple majority and be done with it.

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They have to convict before they can vote on that. They can't just hand down punishment without finding him guilty first.

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Originally Posted by Gelston

Do you seriously think he is going to be convicted in this unconstitutional farce?

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It could happen. I'm just satisfied all the evidence is in public and the votes will show where people stand.

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Originally Posted by Gelston

They have to convict before they can vote on that. They can't just hand down punishment without finding him guilty first.

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Unlike removal, disqualification from office is a discretionary judgment, and there is no explicit constitutional linkage to the two-thirds vote on conviction. Although an argument can be made that disqualification should nonetheless require a two-thirds vote,855 the Senate has determined that disqualification may be accomplished by a simple majority vote.856

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https://law.justia.com/constitution/...ification.html

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Originally Posted by drauz

https://law.justia.com/constitution/...ification.html

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Yes, it says that the conviction is still required first, just that it doesn’t need a 2/3 vote like the conviction did.

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Originally Posted by Gelston

Yes, it says that the conviction is still required first, just that it doesn’t need a 2/3 vote like the conviction did.

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Unlike removal, disqualification from office is a discretionary judgment, and there is no explicit constitutional linkage to the two-thirds vote on conviction.

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Originally Posted by Back

It could happen. I'm just satisfied all the evidence is in public and the votes will show where people stand.

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Hulk Hogan could show up at the last minute and leg drop everybody too.

He asked what you think is going to happen, not what could happen.

But I'm pretty sure you knew that and know he's not getting convicted.

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Originally Posted by Back

It could happen. I'm just satisfied all the evidence is in public and the votes will show where people stand.

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Everyone who isn't brain dead already knows what happened..

Dumb people did dumb things and Democrats, never wanting to let a crisis go to waste, jumped at the chance to redefine "peacefully" as code for coup.