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In reply to the discussion: A question that must be asked... and answered. [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)The same party would continue to control the executive branch, no matter how many times the party in control of Congress removed the current, sitting President.
This OP asks, How do we prevent a Trump in the future? Impeachment is the only way to remove a sitting President, but impeachment (under our current system) doesnt work. Never in our 233 year history as a republic has a President been removed from office pursuant to articles of impeachment. Thus, I argue, it needs to be much easier to impeach a President and remove him or her from office.
Under our current circumstances, Pence would now be President if the Senate had removed Trump from office earlier this year. I think we would be better off now if that had happened. For the life of me, I can not see the downside to a Constitutional amendment that makes the impeachment and conviction of a President far easier than it is at present.
-Laelth