• mwguy@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    Which is why you need an impeachment as punishment for it can include being barred from holding public office.

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      7 months ago

      How can you impeach someone who can stop the impeachment by quasi legally murdering you?

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        7 months ago

        That particular scenario isn’t a well protected for scenario in the US Constitution. In theory Capitol Police should be able to protect individual senators and congressfolk. But we did see how that broke down on J6.

        This however enforces the reality that Trump should have been impeached with earnest when he was the second time (and honestly Congress should have listened to James Comey when he handed them an impeachment for Obstruction of Justice on a silver platter instead of fumbling it).