Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images It’s happening again. Last month, in the final week of then-President Donald Trump’s presidency, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump for a second time, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” for inflaming a pro-Trump mob that attacked and briefly occupied the US Capitol on January 6. Trump’s second impeachment trial begins Tuesday, even though he is no longer in office. So why would lawmakers bother with impeachment? One answer is that removal is not the only sanction available if Trump is convicted: The Constitution also permits the Senate to permanently disqualify Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”