what happens if president Trump is impeached
Posted: December 19th, 2019, 8:14 am
If you've the following latest news like me in the last few days, you can foresee the almost inevitable third impeachment in the history of presidency in the United States.
Since a majority of representatives voted on Wednesday to charge the president with two articles of impeachment, the process will now move to the Senate, which is responsible for holding a fair and impartial trial.
Both sides will present their cases to the senators, who act as jurors, while Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the hearings.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to name several House lawmakers as impeachment managers in the coming days, while other members of Congress or White House lawyers could argue in Trump's defense.
It's unclear who Pelosi will appoint, but a few names stand out. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, took the lead role in overseeing the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump, and his background as a federal prosecutor could make him uniquely qualified to make the case for Trump's impeachment in the Senate.
Meanwhile, several names stand out from the Republican side of the arena as well. Reps. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and John Ratcliffe have all mounted impassioned defenses of the president throughout the course of the impeachment inquiry as well as during Wednesday's hearing before the House voted on articles of impeachment.
Jordan and Ratcliffe have law degrees.
But Ratcliffe has faced some controversy in his professional career. After Trump nominated him to be director of national intelligence earlier this year, it surfaced that Ratcliffe represented himself as the "chief of anti-terrorism and national security" in the Eastern District of Texas.
Congress has never removed a president through impeachment. While two US presidents — Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton — were impeached by the House, both were acquitted in the Senate.
Trump is the first president to be impeached in his first term.
If Trump is impeached but not convicted in the Senate, he will stay in office, and it will be left up to the American people to reelect him in 2020.
Since a majority of representatives voted on Wednesday to charge the president with two articles of impeachment, the process will now move to the Senate, which is responsible for holding a fair and impartial trial.
Both sides will present their cases to the senators, who act as jurors, while Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the hearings.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to name several House lawmakers as impeachment managers in the coming days, while other members of Congress or White House lawyers could argue in Trump's defense.
It's unclear who Pelosi will appoint, but a few names stand out. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, took the lead role in overseeing the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump, and his background as a federal prosecutor could make him uniquely qualified to make the case for Trump's impeachment in the Senate.
Meanwhile, several names stand out from the Republican side of the arena as well. Reps. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and John Ratcliffe have all mounted impassioned defenses of the president throughout the course of the impeachment inquiry as well as during Wednesday's hearing before the House voted on articles of impeachment.
Jordan and Ratcliffe have law degrees.
But Ratcliffe has faced some controversy in his professional career. After Trump nominated him to be director of national intelligence earlier this year, it surfaced that Ratcliffe represented himself as the "chief of anti-terrorism and national security" in the Eastern District of Texas.
Congress has never removed a president through impeachment. While two US presidents — Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton — were impeached by the House, both were acquitted in the Senate.
Trump is the first president to be impeached in his first term.
If Trump is impeached but not convicted in the Senate, he will stay in office, and it will be left up to the American people to reelect him in 2020.