(02-11-2021, 06:12 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-11-2021, 04:54 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: In order for the prevention of holding future office to happen impeachment has to happen first. Period. The act they cited is not considered an impeachable offense. Period. It doesn't matter what people think it should be, it matters what is legal. To be sure this act will be added as an impeachable offense, but until it is, what they are doing is unconstitutional. 

It's like someone going to trial for a crime that isn't actually a crime according to the law as it is written.

The house decides with high crimes and misdemeanors means. The Senate decides if they agree, and if the person actually committed the things in question. There is no exhaustive list of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Commoners like us can only be tried for criminal matters or civil matters, and we can only be tried on the basis of laws that were in effect at the time of our infractions. But high officials can commit high crimes, and our founders wisely refused to offer any exhaustive list of them, and refuse to lay out any ex post facto protection in this case. 
In other words, the law only gives us rights. it gives presidents and judges and cabinet officials powers. And because it gives them hours, they are held to a higher standard, and subjected to proceedings where they have fewer rights.

Wikapedia told me rabble, rabble, rabble.