After Nixon v US (1993), it is extraordinarily unlikely that the Supreme Court would overturn a Congressional impeachment. Rehnquist was quite clear that the Framers did not intend judicial review of impeachment.https://twitter.com/brianros1/status/1349429993496047619 …
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@RameshPonnuru on the Late Impeachment Questionhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-late-impeachment-question/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We could go really old school and do the Oliver Cromwell precedent.
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A better question is whether an elected official (president, veep, senator, rep) holds an “office ... under the United States,” which is all someone can be disqualified from.
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They are presumably not “civil officers of the United States,” since president and veep are mentioned separately from civil officers as people who can be impeached.
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