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Beardo
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but they still have to vote for the trial and moreover the longer this goes the less likely it would be that there would be a trial ( at least while he was in office ( particularly if he was found unfit or dropped out of the race with that pressure.
This is a bit confusing. There seems to be implication that a *criminal* trial of a President (or perhaps even an ex-president) requires an impeachment in this and previous posts on this thead. It does not. There is no connection between impeachment and criminal prosecution. At. All. Neither requires, or is required, nor implies the other.
The final stage in the impeachment process is a trial in the Senate, but that is a political act only. If an impeached federal officer (including a President) is convicted, they are removed from office. Nothing more. There is a separate vote afterward for future disqualification from office and that is the limit of the power of impeachment.
(As with anything that happens in the Senate, or any other legislative body, there would have to be a resolution or motion to schedule and set the parameters [reconfiguring the floor, determining who can be present in the Senate for the trial, etc.] of a Senate impeachment trial. This might involve a vote, or it might not. Remember these are the same bodies that pass joint resolutions to set up special session to hear the State of the Union address.)
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