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The process and implications of impeachment and acquittal in the context of legal accountability.
Conviction in a Senate impeachment trial requires the concurrence of two‑thirds of the Senators present; practically, if all 100 Senators are present that means 67 must vote “guilty” on at least one a...
The legal standards for charging with a crime rest on a mix of constitutional text, judicial doctrine about , practice, and prosecutorial judgment: a former president is not categorically immune, but ...
A Senate acquittal does not automatically extinguish all legal accountability: the dominant view in recent official and academic commentary is that criminal prosecution, civil suits, and other remedie...