Break the law with this one weird trick: Congress can’t manage to impeach you.
Congress managed twice.
The senate refused to punish.
Impeachment is the guilty result of the congress trial. Sentencing is the senates job.
Ah apologies, that’s fair enough and I amend my statement.
Congress refuses to convict you
Sorry but still not correct.
To convict is to find guilty. The senate did that. Twice. And that is all the constitution allows congress to do.
The senate is required to then sentence the Impeached (Meaning: Convicted of an impeachable offence) to sentence. This is when refusal happened.
So “The senate refused to sentence you” would be the accurate correction.
The founding father set it up that way, intentional to prevent any one branch having the power to remove the executive branch. “Separation of powers”
I’m responding here because it was annoying to read this stuff. I really dislike people being pedantic for no reason, sorry, especially when they’re not correct in their pedantry and it does not contribute to the conversation.
The branches of government don’t include “senate” and “house”. They are one branch together.
The penalty for impeachment has one relief: removal from office. That is the only outcome of a presidential impeachment. This is absolutely within the power of Congress.
Midnitte was emotionally / morally correct in their initial post. Yes, we know “Impeachment” has occurred, but for it to be meaningful to any US citizen, the president needs to be removed from power, as well, not aquitted in the Senate.
