How does impeachment play out in the Senate 🤔
of what that means, but let’s take a closer look at what our future may hold.
Here’s what we do know: Impeachment proceedings have to go through the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the house, impeachment is, well, a mess. The procedure is complex and convoluted and the Constitution doesn’t clear things up or tell members of Congress how to go about the thing. Because of that, we end up leaving on the historical context of Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton pretty heavily. Thankfully, it’s a little bit clearer in the Senate than it is in the House.
So let’s take things one step at a time, with a loose guide on how a presidents impeachment plays out in the Senate:If the impeachment conversation reaches the Senate, an official has already technically been impeached. Given that the definition of impeachment is a “charge of misconduct,” being impeached means that the House of Representatives has already brought those same charges of misconduct against a given person.
, decides whether or not a president is removed from office; in order to do that, they conduct a trial. “The constitution says the House impeaches and the Senate renders a decision,” Jody Baumgartner, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of political science at East Carolina University, told MTV News. “The Senate is simply making the decision [of] as the result of this president having been impeached, should he be removed from office? That's it.
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