well, Dad is home today so for the next few days I'm going to be busy getting back into the routine.
So if I don't get beack to everyon'es replies, I'm sorry. I'll try to catch up as time allows.
Clinton and Trump. Neither of them were "convicted" of the impeachments against them. That's why they were able to keep their jobs.
In the United States, impeachment is the process by which a legislature may bring charges against an officeholder for misconduct alleged to have been committed with a penalty of removal. Impeachment may also occur at the state level if the state or commonwealth has provisions for it under its constitution.
Wikipedia
The federal
House of Representatives can impeach a party with a simple majority of the House members present or such other criteria as the House adopts in accordance with
Article One, Section 2, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution. This triggers
a federal impeachment trial in the
United States Senate,
which can vote by a 2/3 majority to convict an official, removing them from office. The Senate can also further, with just a simple-majority vote, vote to bar an individual convicted in a senate impeachment trial from holding future federal office.
You need a convicton for removal.
On February 12, Clinton was
acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary
two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office—in this instance 67 votes were needed. On Article One, 45 senators voted to convict while 55 voted for acquittal. On Article Two, 50 senators voted to convict while 50 voted for acquittal.
[3] Clinton remained in office for the remainder of his second term.
[4]
On February 5, 2020, the Senate acquitted Trump on both counts. The votes were 48–52 to convict on the first count and 47–53 to convict on the second count, both short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict, therefore resulting in acquittal.
The
second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th
president of the United States (in office from 2017 to 2021), began on February 9, 2021, and concluded with his acquittal on February 13.
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