• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66690276

    In the riot’s aftermath, the US House of Representatives impeached the then-president on a charge of “incitement of insurrection”.

    Had the US Senate voted to convict him, it would have had the option to take a second, simple-majority vote to bar him from ever serving in office again.

    But that never happened: the Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority required to convict Mr Trump, so there was no second vote.

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      10 months ago

      There is nothing in the 14th amendment that says that the Senate has to convict him to bar him from office. Or that any state does not have the right to control its own ballot.