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Constitution - Article 2 Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be REMOVED FROM OFFICE on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, TREASON, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Let's get busy getting these traitors OUT!

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Francoise 6 July 16
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This would seem to mean that surely all members of the Cabinet would be removed, but what other offices would be purged?
I'm also questioning what happens if the president resigns before the impeachment is completed? Can the impeachment process be completed? Once started, is Congress compelled to complete the impeachment, considering that the results extend beyond the president? Is there some way that the process can be thwarted so that an impeachable president can remain in power, by proxy?

bingst Level 8 July 17, 2018
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Power to the people, get him out! His act of treason was seen by the entire world on TV.

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Attack your "representatives" with emails, texts, calls and insist they act! Put their contact info into your phone/computer so it is easy to do!

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I want to see Trump, Pence, and just about every other Republican out of office as much as or more than anybody else, but I don't think the collusion (an imprecise legal term) qualifies as treason. If memory serves, for an act to qualify as treason the US must be at war with the enemy; since we're not in a declared war with Russia, it's not treason. Now, if we can impeach them for ... well, anything else, that would be great. Maybe after midterms when the Democrats have a majority in the House so that the House speaker becomes president. Of course, if the Senate is split then the Vice President will be ... McDonnell? Ugh.

Surely undermining his own Security services by preferring to believe an enemy country’s president has to be treasonous,

@Marionville In a layperson's sense, yes, but strictly speaking, I think treason, in order to be a crime, has to be activities that aid an enemy in a declared war. Since Congress hasn't declared war against Russia, any support for Russia is, in strict legal terms, not treason. Appalling and disgraceful, sure.

@shayne69 As I understand it, the US legal standard for treason doesn't apply in cases of impeachment, because it's not strictly speaking a legal proceeding... not in a legal context, but a political context. Impeachment happens in the legislative branch, not the judicial branch. The short of it is that treason in that political context has a broader meaning, as do the other general reasons given in the Constitution for impeachment.

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