[Magdalen] Comey testifying

[Eleanor Braun]

Grace -- impeachment by the House of Representatives does not remove the
President from office.  But it sets up a trial in the Senate.  As a result
of conviction by the Senate, the President is removed from office.

Impeachment clauses in the Constitution:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_2_5.html

Eleanor

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're right about Nixon, Christopher.
>
> I have to confess that I don't even understand the point of impeachment.
> It doesn't get the person put of office--in fact, as far as I can tell,
> absolutely nothing changes.
>
> It seems the only way you can get a president out of office is to invoke
> the 25th Amendment, which won't happen with this Congress, or for him to
> actually be convicted of a felony. And even in that case, with the
> likelihood of never ending appeals, a president's full term would be served
> before anything was actually done.
>
> If I sound cynical, it's because I am.
> No one seems to have the will or the courage to stand up as the pieces of
> our government are being dismantled and our rights eroded, one by one.  You
> know the story of the frog in the pot of slowly heating water--that's where
> I think we are, and no one seems willing to turn off the heat or take the
> pot off the stove.
>
>
> > On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Point of order - Three presidents have been impeached.  None convicted
> >> (Nixon resigned before he could be tried in the Senate).  Impeach =
> indict,
> >> not convict.
> >
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > I don't believe that Nixon was actually impeached by the House of
> > Representatives. The investigating committee recommended articles of
> > impeachment, but I think he resigned before the full House ever acted on
> > them. He doubtless would have been impeached though had he not resigned.
> >
> >> --
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
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