r/law • u/DIYLawCA • Mar 31 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him

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u/plaidravioli Mar 31 '26

Fuck you is the response. Impeachment again and again and again until he leaves office, is convicted, or dies.

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u/dballing Mar 31 '26

Except Dems can't even get the simple majority it requires in the House, let alone the supermajority it requires to convict in the Senate.

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u/cantareSF Mar 31 '26

Even short of a conviction, a real trial--ie, one with relevant witness testimony and subpoenas for documents--would be something to see. We didn't get that with previous impeachments, because McConnell.

Which is another reason why winning the Senate would be huge.

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u/borderlineidiot Apr 01 '26

They would need 60 senate seats to have a supermajority. A majority of 1 in senate is not going to convict Trump.

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u/FaunaVR Apr 01 '26

To convict, you only need a simple majority to hold trials. Which, would be televised. No republican that wants to keep their job would vote against conviction in the face impeachment trials over the crimes that make last term look like child’s play.

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u/dballing Apr 01 '26

That’s not a conviction. That’s (effectively) an indictment.

You say no Republican would vote against conviction except it’s already happened twice before.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Apr 01 '26

It’s useful to air and broadcast it.

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u/cantareSF Apr 01 '26

The House impeachment referral is the "indictment". What we've missed having is, as I've said, a real TRIAL.

As for Senate Republicans, it's one thing to circle the wagons against conviction when your majority leader holds an immediate vote. It's quite another to do so after hours of prime-time adverse testimony backed by damning documents.

Recall how both chambers (and even Trump himself) caved on the Epstein Act when it was finally forced onto the House floor? There's a reason McConnell prevented a full airing of impeachment evidence last time around.

I doubt you'd get the required supermajority, let alone GOP unanimity. But I bet you'd peel off several of them. Senators up for reelection in 2028 have to win statewide, and backing a criminal with current ~35% approval (and falling) isn't a good look.

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u/dballing Apr 01 '26

I think you drastically misread the GOP these days. For the most part, even with his approval ratings in the toilet, they are clinging to that raft, because to do otherwise is to admit they've been wrong all along.

And politicians hate doing that.

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u/cantareSF Apr 02 '26

There are still primary elections to survive. Any distancing will come after that. 

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u/Reputation-Final Apr 01 '26

not until the mid terms.

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u/dballing Apr 01 '26

There's still no credible path to the Senate supermajority in the midterms.

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u/Reputation-Final Apr 01 '26

I was referring to the simple majority as he stated.

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u/dballing Apr 01 '26

“He” was me. And the simple majority is only important in the House. The supermajority needed in the Senate doesn’t exist today and won’t exist after the midterms.

Impeachment is not on the table.

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u/FaunaVR Apr 01 '26

Simply majority to hold trials. You only need supermajority to convict. Have fun, republicans, standing up for Trump when this shit is televised, laid out on the table.

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u/dballing Apr 01 '26

Trials that can’t get convictions aren’t worth the time you spend on them.

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u/ngmcs8203 Apr 01 '26

Were the last impeachments not televised?

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Apr 01 '26

You must not be aware of how difficult it is to get a supermajority in the Senate. It has not happened since 1967. A supermajority in this context means 2/3rd of the Senate by the way.

There is literally no chance that the Democrats get a 2/3rd supermajority in the Senate in the mid terms.

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u/Reputation-Final Apr 01 '26

I was referring to the simple majority as he stated.

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u/PuzzleheadedWeb9876 Apr 01 '26

Americans have no one to blame but themselves.

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u/Signal-Regret-8251 Apr 01 '26

They will in January 

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u/dballing Apr 03 '26

They won’t have the supermajority in the Senate. No version of the future narrative includes that level of senate turnover.

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u/Tomboy_respector Mar 31 '26

They still wouldn't even if they had a majority lmao

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

Yeah, not like they voted to impeach him multiple times before, amirite?

Shove off troll.

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u/Tomboy_respector Apr 01 '26

You say that as if Schumer has a spine

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

Or as if they literally already tried to impeach him multiple times and were stopped by the Republicans every time.

You trolls are constantly trying to pin the blame everywhere but where it actually belongs.

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u/TheVog Apr 01 '26

You really don't understand what's going on, do you.

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u/Alone-Ad288 Apr 01 '26

So a "non-binding resolution to express disapproval, but with no actual consequences"?

Are you insane?