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onenote

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3. While impeachment is a poltical process, the framers also made it very hard to oust someone

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2017, 05:52 PM

Oct 2017

by requiring 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict. In the last 100 years there have only been two periods where one party controlled 2/3 of the seats in the Senate: 1935-1943 and 1963-1967. In the latter instance, it's probably an exaggeration to say that one party controlled 2/3 of the seats since the Democratic Party at that time was in the process of splintering between Southern Democrats and the rest of the party.

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The Founding Fathers designed impeachment for someone exactly like Donald Trump [View all] yallerdawg Oct 2017 OP

BIG knr joeybee12 Oct 2017 #1

Too bad they didn't set up a system to fall back on BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #2

While impeachment is a poltical process, the framers also made it very hard to oust someone onenote Oct 2017 #3

This would have to be beyond party. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #4

Unfortunately they never imagined all the people necessary to make that happen could be complicit. tanyev Oct 2017 #5

Actually I think it was the Electoral College that was designed for someone like Trump. PoliticAverse Oct 2017 #6

Why is McConnell rainin Oct 2017 #7