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Trump’s Senate impeachment trial gets underway
The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is underway. “Impeachment is unique. It is a political act, it is not the same as a civil or a criminal trial. So you have the Senate acting as, in some ways as judge and jury,” said Maurice Sheppard, a political scientist at Madison College.
If he’s convicted by the Senate of inciting insurrection for last month’s violent assault on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters, the former president will be barred from ever running for office again.
But that’s a big if. “It is a very high bar to clear,” Sheppard said. “The constitutional standard is that it has to be a supermajority. Two-thirds of the Senators present have to vote for conviction. In this case it would be 67, and the Democrats would need at least 17 Republicans to vote with them.”
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