Wild Bill Kelsoe
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That's true. Anybody can run for office. The Constitution only establishes who can hold federal offices.WTF?? Impeachment isn't a "prosecution." It's a political process to keep people who violate the public's trust out of office.Thanks for admitting the Republicans in the Senate lied about it being unconstitutional to try Trump as an excuse just so they could give him a pass. And thanks for admitting Trump really did incite that seditious insurrection on the Capitol as Republicans voted nay because of what they considered a technicality and not because they thought he was not guilty.Quote it saying a president can't be tried by the Senate once they're out of office.....Says who?
The Constitution.
Quote the part of The Constitution that says a private citizen can be removed from office, once he's out of office.
As far as the Constitution saying a private citizen can be removed from office once they're out of office...
That matters not since that is merely one of the potential punishments. That's like saying no court of law can try an individual because they can't be incarcerated because they can't be found. Which of course is absurd because such people can still be tried in abstentia. And in Trump's case, there's also another potential penalty he could have faced. According to the traitorous right, it's ok to commit a crime as long as you can't be punished for it. This also means a president can now commit any crime they want during the end of their first term and they can still run again for office. That makes sense to you, doesn't it?
But most most salient, the Constitution authorizes the Senate to try "ALL" impeachments. It doesn't state the Senate can try all impeachments except in cases where the person is now a private citizen.
Which is why it's absurd to claim it's unconstitutional to try a person who leaves office in between being impeached and being tried. Even worse, there's already precedence to hold such a trial. William Belknap thought he could avoid his looming impeachment trial by resigning from office. He couldn't as the Senate held a trial anyway.
Then you have the hurdle of the Senate voting on that very question and deciding it is constitutional to try someone impeached even if they left office.
Then you have Republicans who voted nay to that question, but then tried him anyway.
This was a case of jury nullification in which Republicans decided to give Trump a pass for no reason other than Trump is a Republican like themselves. And sadly for the country, they did so in a case where the president committed an act of treason.
The Constitution prohibits Congress from prosecuting a private citizen.
The Senate trial is absolutely a prosecution. Hence they use the terms "convict" and "acquit".
Impeachment is "prosecuted" in the same sense a war is "prosecuted". Neither leads to a finding of criminality. Criminal cases are also "prosecuted". Not everything "prosecuted" is a criminal trial. The fact that they use similar terms doesn't make them the same thing.
Congress doesn't have the power to bar a private citizen from running for office.
A power that Congress doesn't have, regarding who can run for office.
PS: someone who doesn't qualify to hold office can't run for that office. That person wouldn't be allowed to register. Taking donations to fund a non-registered campaign is illegal.