(January 7, 2021 at 8:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It looks like it’s a bit more complicated than that, Boru. While officially convicting Trump would require a supermajority, and that may not be likely, it turns out there’s a separate procedure for disqualifying him from office and there is indeed precedent for a simple majority. And, even assuming the votes all fall on party lines like last time, it turns out that, with the recent election of two Dems from Georgia to the Senate, and the two independents who caucus with the Democratic Party, there would be a tie. And with VP Kamala Harris acting as tiebreaker in the senate, such a majority is more or less there. And if some Republicans break the old party line after this shit, a majority is all but guaranteed.
All of the cases mentioned in your article are about disqualification votes AFTER the party in question was convicted by the Senate. Disqualification is the punishment for the conviction.
In other words, the Senate cannot bar Trump from future office holding until it convicts him. And the conviction requires a supermajority vote.
Boru
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