• Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Impeachment doesn’t seem like it actually does anything. It’s like an official slap on the wrist.
    Maybe the laws were written back when politicians had a sense of shame and they just assumed that an impeached president would resign.

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      3 days ago

      Exactly.

      The US system has bunch of things that don’t have explicitly defined penalties, because just the act itself was so shameful that it itself was the punishment.

      But now they have a president with zero shame and zero morals - the processes don’t work.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      It is a 2 part process. If you think of it like a criminal offense, impeachment is a charge. Then the Senate convicts. He caught 2 charges and the Senate voted him innocent.

      So long as he holds at least 33% support in the Senate, he’s safe.

      50% in Congress for bringing the articles (charges). 67% of Senate to convict

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        14 hours ago

        My point exactly. US politics have become so divided that a sitting president would never be found guilty by his own party members, which would be necessary for conviction considering how the two parties always get near-equal amount of representatives. The system is stacked so that an impeachment will never have any effect on a sitting president.

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      2 days ago

      If you’re found guilty in impeachment you’re removed from office… Just because you don’t understand the full process doesn’t mean it’s toothless