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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Not that this would decide the legal question, but it seems strange that an impeached officer, on the verge of a stigmatizing conviction and facing disqualification from future office, could avoid those negative consequences simply by resigning three seconds before verdict.
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Or that he could be saved by the bell—I mean, calendar.
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