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Offline dutch508

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What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« on: May 10, 2017, 04:43:02 PM »
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Tommy_Carcetti (29,423 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029043739

Just curious: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President from office?

I don't mean the procedures during the Senate trial on removal after the President is impeached.

I mean what happens if the Senate votes to "convict" on the impeachment charges, thus warranting the President's removal from office?

Is the Vice President immediately sworn in on the spot? Or is there some sort of period between the vote and the time the Vice President is sworn in?

And what if the impeached/removed President doesn't want to leave the White House?

We've never actually gotten to that point so I'm curious how such a situation would actually play out.

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2. Does it matter?

He won't be impeached. The coup is complete. They will appoint a new FBI head, the investigation will go away. The Republicans won't do anything. And I'm betting Trump will collude with Russia to hack the 2018 elections, so dems lose again, too. We are all doomed.

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8. I believe the procedure is . . .

Upon conviction by the Senate, the President (or other high public official) is immediately out of office. In the case of the President, the Vice President immediately becomes the President. There may be a swearing in ceremony later, but that would just be for show. As soon as the President is convicted by the Senate, the office is vacated, and the Vice President automatically becomes the President.

If the convict refuses to leave the White House, he doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. I imagine the Secret Service or the U.S. Marshals would bodily remove him from the premises.

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9. I have a mental image of two burly agents hauling a kicking and screaming Trump out the WH door.

Preferably he's wearing a white-tank top, Cops style, to boot.

That image would be provide a lot of humor and laughs as we have to wait out the rest of President Pence's term.

Oh, come on.... you have a mental image of the SJWs dragging the president out of the white house and shooting him in the street. Let's not pretend otherwise.

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10. As to a President Pence

I have a strategy for dealing with that should it come to pass. Code name is "Next man up." Guess how it works.



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15. The same way he fired Comey?

Wait until he's out of town (at Merde a Loco) and then send a handwritten note to the White House staff, telling them that he is no longer their boss, and then change all the locks?

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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2017, 04:48:03 PM »
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Tommy_Carcetti (29,423 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029043739

Just curious: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President from office?

I don't mean the procedures during the Senate trial on removal after the President is impeached.

I mean what happens if the Senate votes to "convict" on the impeachment charges, thus warranting the President's removal from office?

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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2017, 04:51:11 PM »
Wow, the primitives are some serious pence fans

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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2017, 04:53:03 PM »
The best answer to the primitive's question:

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2. Does it matter?
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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2017, 04:53:50 PM »
Such an illuminating exchange of ideas the DU engages in.

There wasn't this much impeachment-talk during husband-bill's actual impeachment-vote leadup. 
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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2017, 04:58:36 PM »
I'm sure once he's impeached his fortunes will be erased and poor Melania will be homeless.    I have a queen size bed with only one person sleeping in it right now,  unfortunately, and being the patriot I am I am willing to offer Melania a place to lay her pretty head.   Does Barron know how to run a lawn mower.   hey, If DU can believe in unicorns, so can I.
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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2017, 05:04:25 PM »
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Shell_Seas (52 posts)
2. Does it matter?

He won't be impeached. The coup is complete.

DUmmies keep using that word, but they don't know what it means.

A duly elected president does not a coup make no matter how much the LOSERS hate HIM.
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Re: What are the actual steps/procedures for removing an impeached President?
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2017, 05:09:13 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 10, 2017, 05:04:25 PM
DUmmies keep using that word, but they don't know what it means.

A duly elected president does not a coup make no matter how much the LOSERS hate HIM.

Dictionaries are a Reich-Wing source!!!
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