A 2/3 majority opting for impeachment is possible after today. But it would require all of the time remaining in Trump’s tenure to achieve. Not worth it. He will be ruined and quite possibly go to jail.
Paul > On Jan 6, 2021, at 6:45 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 06:17:56PM -0500, John wrote: >>> On 1/6/2021 17:08:28, Bill wrote: >>> Given the brouhaha going on in DC at the moment and the fact it has been >>> incited by #45, does what he has done constitute treason? >>> >>> Note, let's not get ourselves exercised about this. I am genuinely curious. >>> >>> bill >>> >> >> Technically no. The Constitution defines treason very narrowly and this >> doesn't fit within that definition. >> >> OTOH, it's not too late to impeach him again. >> >> And there's a good argument that it may be time for Pence to suck it up and >> invoke Clause 4 of the 25th Amendment. >> > > Assuming the response from Trump would be to declare himself to be fit to > serve, > to unseat him would require a two-thirds majority in both houses. Is that > likely? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
