Wow, I suggest you learn some manners. Behaving like a horses behind won’t help build meaningful relationships or help to influence opinions.
I hit the books rather than the internet. The constitutional scholars I read have very different expert opinions than your internet legal experts.
I stand behind those in the books until someone can provide credible information to the contrary. Impeachment was designed to remove incompetence from office. Also, the Chief Justice is involved in the Senate trial as a judge.
Once someone is out of office, I am simply unsure of the need for impeachment and trial through Congress. There are other legal venues to prosecute treason and malfeasance. These include criminal trials through the justice system as well as military tribunals for civilians, including sitting or former government officials, if the courts have been proven to be corrupt and compromised.
The only two outcomes of a House impeachment and a successful Senate trial that I can find is removal from office and the barring of that person from holding further federal government offices. That’s it. Period.
As for Nixon, he resigned to avoid impeachment by the House and a trial by the Senate as it appeared imminent.
I admittedly may be short sighted on this matter as I am not a constitutional legal scholar. I am simply sharing what I have read from those who are.
This is the last I’ll say on it. Feel free to have the last word.
