Question: if the House impeaches but the Senate votes *against* removal from office (like last time), is Trump thenceforth banned from public office? When does that particular prohibition become active?
All right, my above-average readers have informed me that the ban from public office is *not* an automatic result of impeachment. It's a vote in the Senate, held separately from the vote to convict.
My one remaining question: can the vote to prohibit future public office happen *before* the vote to convict? Or if the vote to convict fails, can there still be a subsequent vote? Does the prohibition from public office *require* conviction?
All right, my above-average readers have come through again: YES, the Senate must vote to convict Trump (2/3 vote) *before* they vote to prohibit him from office (majority vote). Color me super-skeptical the Senate will do the former, but anything's possible these days I guess.
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