How many times can a president be impeached?

[Baitball Blogger]

Trump doesn't seem to understand the Constitutional process. The sting of this impeachment will be bad, but he'll get over it once Mitch McConnell gives him carte blanche in the Senate.

Once Trump feels like he's acquitted he'll think he's immune. This will only get worse, once he loses his fear.

[pwb]

1. Well after he is impeached will he still be a dumb fuck?

I say yes he could for any new crime. IMO.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Dem. Rep. Al Green: We Can Impeach Trump 'More Than Once'

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/dem-rep-al-green-we-can-impeach-trump-more-once-102392

Dec 5, 2019

Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green said Thursday that House Democrats could impeach President Donald Trump multiple times. Green said in a C-SPAN interview that a “president can be impeached more than once” and that there is “no limit” to the number of times the House can vote on impeachment.

“I think that the Mueller report has some issues in it that ought to be considered. I think the obstruction of the Comey investigation has issues that should be considered, and I think the invidious discrimination that I have called to the attention of the public ought to be considered,” Green said.

Green first introduced articles of impeachment in November 2017, less than 10 months after Trump was sworn into office.

“My hope is we will expand this and take up additional issues. I would also say this for your viewers, for edification purposes — a president can be impeached more than once. So we can do this — we can move forward with what we have on the table currently. We can take this before the Senate, and we can still investigate other issues, and when the president has committed additional offenses — and my suspicion is that he will — we can take those before the Senate,” he continued.

“There is no limit on the number of the times the Senate can vote to convict or not [convict] a president. No limit to the number of times a House can vote to impeach, or not, a president. So my belief is that the speaker will probably say we are going to move forward with what we have now, but we are not going to end investigations and that there may be a possible opportunity to do other things at a later time.”

[DinahMoeHum]

3. IOW, "double jeopardy" does not apply here, correct?

n/t

[Wounded Bear]

4. Well, there are more than one offense...

[Calista241]

7. It's an open question. If the Senate terms their vote an acquittal, double jeopardy concerns

will have to be litigated.

So, if they 'acquit' the President sometime in January, then the House could theoretically be prevented from impeaching him on the same charges if the Senate were to change hands in 2020. Dems will have to come up with new charges and impeach him for something else.

[Maeve]

8. That is part of the strategy of limiting the terms

This impeachment is only concerned with his behavior toward Ukraine--obstruction of Congress/justice in other cases could still be brought. And other abuses of power. Or emoluments issues.

[Maxheader]

5. Stumpy is so dirty..

Notice how the mueller investigation seems to be cropping up with the ukraine debacle..

Gawd! How intertwined is the corruption? We have a deep state senate....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. I don't believe that the Constitution specifies a limit

That being said, I have a hard time believing that the Democrats are going to have the time or capital to make more than one attempt.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I just got hit with a pang of fear when I heard that the Brexit clan won election across the pond.

If he gets re-elected we'll have plenty of time for more impeachments. Though, hopefully, Mitch McConnell will be voted out of office and vulnerable to lawsuits and investigations.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I'm not even prepared to mentally go there yet

My ideal vision of the future would be Trump and McConnell being gone and a Democratic President and Democratic Congress taking their oaths of office in January 2021. I'm not even going to consider any other realities for the moment.

[Johonny]

12. They're hoping not to have to do it more than once

It will likely be up to the American people to either get that Trump is a criminal or not. But they can impeach him endless number of times...

[Recursion]

11. Legally? As often as the House chooses to. Politically? We get one and only one swing

Personally I still worry the acquittal is going to hand him a "TRUMP VINDICATED" news cycle that's going to be difficult to overcome as it is; doing it more than once would be malpractice.