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Originally Posted by Buddahaid
It's been done before with a couple judges I think.
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It's been done before with a senator, a governor and a secretary of war.
The difference is that they *resigned* or were *expelled* before their term was up - *and* they were not convicted except in the case of a governor under a state constitution rather than the US constitution - whose wife became governor.
The best part of the whole sham is that the constitution itself is abundantly clear "When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present."
So - he isn't President during the trial but they are trying him for when he was President, so the Chief Justice needs to preside, which he isn't.
Bottom-line - this is all kabuki theater designed to fund-raise for the Dems' midterms.