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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Democrat Legal Expert: Trump Isn’t Impeached Until Articles Go to Senate

Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, who testified as a Democrat witness in the House Judiciary Committee’s public hearings on impeachment, argues President Donald Trump is technically not impeached until the House submits the articles to the Senate.

In a Bloomberg News opinion-editorial published Thursday, Feldman writes the definition of impeachment, according to the framers, “assumed that impeachment was a process, not just a House vote,” and impeachment is official only when the articles are transmitted to the Senate, where lawmakers are “obliged by the Constitution to hold a trial.”

The debate over whether President Trump is formally impeached comes as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remains non-committal about sending the articles to the Senate, citing recent Democrat concerns a trial held by the upper chamber will not be “fair” and that senator won’t be “impartial” jurors.

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1 comment:

  1. They ain't biscuits until they come out of the oven.

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