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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The impeachment trial currently underway against Donald Trump is a partisan exercise undertaken in violation of the Constitution’s text, attorneys for the former president argued before the Senate on Tuesday.
Senate impeachment proceedings began Tuesday, starting with a vote on the permissibility of impeaching a president who no longer holds office. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, the lead House impeachment manager, argued that a so-called “January exception” to the impeachment power would constitute an “Invitation to the president to take his best shot at anything he may want to do on his way out the door.”
Fellow impeachment manager Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colorado, cited the 1876 impeachment of President Ulysses S. Grant’s War Secretary, William Belknap, who resigned in hopes of evading impeachment. That the Senate proceeded with Belknap’s impeachment anyway, Neguse argued, provides sufficient precedent for a post-presidency impeachment.
Rep. Joe Neguse says if officials can’t face impeachment out of office, they could resign during their own trial to escape punishment: “That would effectively erase disqualification from the Constitution. It would put wrongdoers
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