Why Impeachment Doesn't Work | The New Yorker
Save this story for later. Last weekend, forty-three members of the United States Senate voted to acquit former President Donald J. Trump of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, on January 6th, which claimed the life of a police officer and four protesters and could have resulted in the deaths of members of Congress. Fifty Democrats and seven Republicans voted to convict Trump, but they fell far short of the sixty-seven votes that would have made him, in addition to being the only President to be impeached twice, the first President to be convicted in a Senate trial. The Republicans who ...