This Senate of the
united States is so corrupted
that is can no longer function
as our employee's
in government!
With this knowledge
we can see why
Nancy Pelosi wants to show you our citizens of this country
what
our government will be allowed to do
after we the voting public,
fire the ‘Dead
Heads’ now infesting Capitol Hill’!
Article I Sections 2
and 3 of the Constitution,
and
rules in the House and the Senate
implementing
those provisions.
Step 1: It starts in the House Judiciary
Committee, when a majority of the member vote in favor of what’s called an
“inquiry of impeachment” resolution.
Step 2: That resolution goes to the full
House of Representatives where a majority has to vote in favor. And then votes
to authorize and fund a full investigation by the Judiciary Committee into
whether sufficient grounds exist for impeachment.
Step 3: The House Judiciary Committee
investigates. That investigation doesn’t have to be from scratch. It can rely
on data and conclusions of other investigations undertaken by, say, the FBI.
Step 4: A majority of the Judiciary
Committee members decides there are sufficient grounds for impeachment, and the
Committee issues a “Resolution of Impeachment,” setting forth specific
allegations of misconduct in one or more articles of impeachment.
Step 5: The full House then considers that
Resolution and votes in favor of it – as a whole or on each article separately.
The full House isn’t bound by the Committee’s work. The House may vote to
impeach even if the Committee doesn’t recommend impeachment.
Step 6: The matter then goes to the Senate
for a trial. The House’s Resolution of Impeachment becomes in effect the
charges in this trial.
Step 7: The Senate issues a summons to the
president, who is now effectively the defendant, informing him of the charges
and the date by which he has to answer them. If the president chooses not to
answer or appear, it’s as if he entered a “not guilty” plea.
Step 8: The trial in the Senate. In that
trial, those who are representing the House – that is, the prosecution – and
counsel for the president, both make opening arguments. They then introduce
evidence and put on witnesses as in any trial. Witnesses are subject to
examination and cross-examination. The trial is presided over by the chief
justice of the Supreme Court – who has the authority to rule on evidentiary
questions or may put such questions to a vote of the Senate. The House managers
and counsel for the president then make closing arguments.
Step 9: The Senate meets in closed session
to deliberate.
Step 10: The Senate returns in open
session to vote on whether to convict the president on the articles of
impeachment. Conviction requires a two-thirds vote by the Senate. Conviction on
one or more articles of impeachment results in removal from office. Such a
conviction also disqualifies the now former president from holding any other
public office. And it doesn’t bar additional legal proceedings against that
former president, and punishment.
So there you have
it–the 10 steps that must all take place to impeach the president.
It may come in
handy.
This article was originally posted on Robert Reich’s blog.
Article
I
Article I describes the design of the legislative
branch of US Government -- the Congress. Important ideas include the
separation of powers between branches of government (checks and balances), the
election of Senators and Representatives, the process by which laws are made,
and the powers that Congress has. See more...
Section 1.
All
legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2.
The
House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year
by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have
the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the
state legislature.
No
person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of
twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who
shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be
chosen.
The
actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of
the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten
years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of
Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state
shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be
made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three,
Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut
five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland
six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When
vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority
thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The
House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and
shall have the sole power of impeachment.
Section 3.
No
person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty
years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not,
when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice
President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have
no vote, unless they be equally divided.
The
Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in
the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of
President of the United States.
The
Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that
purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United
States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be
convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.
Judgment
in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office,
and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit
under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable
and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.
