An impeachment
Probably the least likely scenario is that Congress rises to the challenge of what to do with an individual who got elected as president and is also a current inmate.
The House might adopt articles of impeachment holding that the crimes for which Trump was convicted in state or federal court also qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
The Senate could even try him on those articles of impeachment, and the outcome might represent Trump’s removal from office. As Republicans currently control the House, it seems quite unlikely they would take such a step.
Even if they did so, conviction in the Senate would hardly be assured. There are plenty of constitutional challenges to this path, which would definitely increase the difficulty of persuading the needed number of legislators to follow along.
First things first, the federal charges that could arise from Trump’s actions in Mar-a-Lago also involve his conduct while out of office. Whether a federal office can even be impeached for out-of-office misbehavior is, for now, an unsettled matter from a constitutional point of view.
A post-inauguration disability
The 25th Amendment is being recognized more and more every day. Adopted in the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the amendment provides the needed possibility of a still-living president being unable to perform the duties of his office.
Section 4 of the amendment has been very much discussed lately since it allows the Cabinet to involuntarily strip the president of his powers.
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he needs to be in prison
Do you believe the Biden Crime Family shouldn’t go to prison too?
I hope you believe the Biden Crime Family should go to prison too? Biden doesn’t believe he can win fairly, so he uses democrat judges and prosecutors to help him win the election. That is really sad.
Wrong.
Trump violated no law. Presidents are immune to all classified doc laws, and can give permanent copies of any classified docs to anyone, including himself. The NY law Bragg used is to prevent scammers from adding false profit entries to books, and hush money NDA purchases are “legal expenses” for a celebrity. Jan 6 was protected political expression. There can be no such thing as a fraudulent elector since the parties pick them before the election, and they act in public sessions of the state legislature.
you must be Democrate. What a shame that you cannot be neutral. That really comes through with you article? It also seems you are very angry. It shows.
What is most illegal is trying to prevent an election with bogus charges against a candidate. I have NEVER seen anything as illegal as that in the whole history of the country.
Then you weren’t listening closely. The 2020 election WAS stolen with drop boxes and phony mail in ballots and the Democrat party used the Covid 19 pandemic as a cover for it….I am sorry you can’t see this. The Democrats have said out loud ” Don’t let a tragedy go to waste” (Hillary Clinton) ” We will do anything to stop Trump” (Nancy Pelosi)…. Now just take a look at all of the phony indictments against the man (Merrick Garland) and all he wants to do is make America Great Again. WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMY HERE?
This is getting SO old!
We all watched Preston Trump on January 6th give a peaceful and impressive speech
to the thousands of people who thought
the election was stolen from him. He should not be held responsible for what happened afterwards. When you watch the videos, you see the Capitol Police welcoming the people into the building. Why didn’t Pelosi bring
In the National Guard when she knew the
crowd was expected to be huge? Too many unanswered questions have to be investigated so we can, hopefully, learn
the truth about January 6th. Hopefully, when President Trump is our 47th president, we shall finally know the truth!
This Jack Smith is like a dog after a bone! Will he ever give up? His charges against President Trump are so bogus! It is hard to believe a lawyer would spend so much
time, effort and money on a case that will,
hopefull, fizzle out when President Trump
is elected our 47th President!
Trump when elected can turn the table on this ass hole and dis bar him from ever practicing law again anywhere period.
Gaurented Civil War… Take that to the bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I’d have voted for Debs for that reason-and his being a political prisoner due to the vindictive Wilson.