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Yes, you can try a former president: a constitutional primer
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President Donald Trump turns to reporters as he exits the White House to walk toward Marine One on the South Lawn on Jan. 12.Olivier Douliery / AFP / TNS
Counsel to former President Donald Trump will argue in the upcoming impeachment trial that an impeachment trial of a former president is unconstitutional. They are mistaken.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides that a sitting officer must be removed from office upon impeachment and conviction. It does not exclude former officeholders from impeachment. Article I, Section 3 provides for a penalty applicable to former officeholders: “disqualification to hold and enjoy any office . under the United States.”
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Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell’s Texas roots: Ambition, prestige and a propensity for conspiracy theories
Powell established the foundation of her legal career in Texas before finding her way to the president’s ear.
Decades before Sidney Powell joined President Donald Trump’s “elite strike force team” of lawyers alleging voter fraud without evidence, the lawyer made her name in Texas legal circles.
She rose to national prominence in her battle to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, alleging voter fraud at the hand of election companies, including far-reaching conspiracy theories. In one press conference with Trump’s lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Powell claimed that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, directed Dominion voting machines to take votes from Trump and flip them to President-elect Joe Biden.