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Seeking Serenity

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5. What's stopping the House from impeaching him again when they return from Christmas break?

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2019, 07:55 PM

Dec 2019

Honest question. Couldn't they impeach him again (and again, if the need arises) while awaiting the Senate to act?

How about just flooding the Senate with articles upon articles of impeachment? Keep the Senate so busy with impeachment trials that it wouldn't have the ability to confirm anymore judges?

And since, as then-Rep. Gerald Ford famously noted, an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives says it is at any given moment, there's no limit on what he could be impeached over.

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Could Democrats impeach Trump twice? They might have to. [View all] Zorro Dec 2019 OP

Nothing in the constitution or amendments that say we can't. And better yet, some are saying... SWBTATTReg Dec 2019 #1

Where in the Constitution does it say that an impeached president can't pardon? Igel Dec 2019 #2

If he gets re-elected he will try and get away doc03 Dec 2019 #3

There's the Mueller investigation too lees1975 Dec 2019 #4

What's stopping the House from impeaching him again when they return from Christmas break? Seeking Serenity Dec 2019 #5

Impeach and Repeat! Counselor1 Dec 2019 #6