Government,
Constitutional Law
Feb. 11, 2020
Trump, post-impeachment
The Senate has spoken, and President Donald Trump was acquitted on Feb. 5, by a majority vote — far short of the two-thirds majority required to remove him from office — of the impeachment charges leveled by the House of Representatives.
Kris Whitten
Retired California deputy attorney general
The Senate has spoken, and President Donald Trump was acquitted on Feb. 5, by a majority vote -- far short of the two-thirds majority required to remove him from office -- of the impeachment charges leveled by the House of Representatives. As anticipated by the Framers of our Constitution's "Republican Form of government" (U.S. Const. Art IV, section 4), Trump's "defence" was "commensurate with the ... attack." ("The Federalist," No.51 (James Madison) (Jacob E. Cooke,...
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