A lawyer for former national security adviser John Bolton
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“The strongest argument against the Senate’s authority to try a former officer is based on Article I, Article 4 of the Constitution,” Attorney Chuck Cooper wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
The section of the Constitution cited by Cooper dictates that the President, Vice President, and all civil servants of the United States “shall be removed from office on charges of, and conviction for, treason, bribery, or other major crimes, and violations. “
“Opponents of the trial argue that, because this provision should be removed, and because only the current officers can be removed, it follows that only the current officers can be charged and tried,” Cooper noted. ‘But the provision cuts against it their interpretation. It merely determines what is known in criminal law as the ‘mandatory minimum’ punishment: if a current official is convicted by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, he is legally removed from office. ‘
After Trump was accused by the House for the second time last month, Sen. Rand Paul
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Five Senate Republicans joined the Democrats to vote against Paul’s criterion, which failed.
“Since the Constitution allows the Senate to impose the penalty of permanent disqualification only on former officials, it rejects the logic of proposing that the Senate be prohibited from prosecuting and convicting former officials,” Cooper told the Journal. writing. “The senators who supported Mr Paul’s draft must reconsider their views and assess the former president’s misconduct.”
Trump was indicted on one article for inciting rebellion against the government after a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol building on January 6 after speaking at a rally saying they should act after Congress and the dispute result of the election. The former president pleaded unproven claims of voter fraud for weeks after the election and was ‘stolen’ from him against an election he claims.
Several people, including members of law enforcement, were injured or killed as a result of the January 6 riots. Trump’s indictment, his second, is expected to begin this week.
Bolton, a regular Trump critic, wrote in the National Review late last month that Trump’s second indictment was unlikely to end in a conviction.
“Like the first one, it was drawn too closely (first Ukraine, now the Capitol desecration) and was rushed through largely partisan lines through the house,” Bolton wrote. “No scenario is the right way to make accusations, 50 percent of which has occurred in U.S. history over the past twelve months.”