It pays to read the history. The impeachment power was based on British practice, which allowed impeaching former officers, as did Founding era states. The Hastings precedent, for example, was cited at the convention & the model of the "high crimes & misdemeanors" language. https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1353815752403517443 …
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But British law and precedent! One time they exhumed a guy who had wanted to be Pope, put his corpse on the witness stand, cut off the three fingers he would use to bless people, then threw his body into the Thames. Its, like, a statement or something.
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They can vote in Chicago, it's possible they can run again there too
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