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Does the Constitution Allow Impeachment of an Ex-President?

Robert G. Natelson, Epoch Times, Jan 29, 2021

Does the U.S. Senate have jurisdiction to try former President Donald Trump? There’s no shortage of absolute yes and no answers floating around the media.

But here’s the real answer: We don’t know.

Before going further, let me clarify one thing: I believe that, on the merits, the article of impeachment against the former president is absurd.

But whether any president can be impeached and convicted after he leaves office is an entirely different issue.

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Robert G. Natelson is a leading constitutional scholar and former constitutional law professor. He is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver. Among his many constitutional publications is “New Evidence on the Constitution’s Impeachment Standard: ‘high … Misdemeanors’ Means Serious Crimes,” Federalist Society Review, vol 21, p. 24 (2020).


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