Impeachment Statute?
It looks like the GOP of the South
seek to prevent the second impeachment of Trump
for the sole reason that his term of office has expired
and he is now a private citizen.
HOGWASH!
The term of office is no statute for impeachment
as long as the articles have been approved
before Trump became a private citizen and
that the articles contain
a charge of fomenting rebellion
against a separate branch of government,
plus the petition to disqualify Trump from serving
as a government employee.
But frankly, I believe that whatever happens
in this trial, it would not matter.
The damage is done.
Deep pride has risen from all points
of the country which may again repeat Lincoln’s
“Four scores and seven years ago,
our forefathers ended it with
a trial by combat”
(Heaven forbid...)