How Do You Impeach a Former President?

The Senate could vote to bar him from ever running for office again

Max Ufberg
GEN
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3 min readJan 13, 2021

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Less than a week before President Trump’s term ends, the House has voted to impeach him for the second time. But the Senate is in recess until January 19, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday rejected the call for an emergency session for Trump’s impeachment trial…

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Max Ufberg
GEN
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Writer and editor. Previously at Medium, Pacific Standard, Wired