re: #374 EPR-radar

A blitzkrieg impeachment. Get it done and dusted in one day. Impeachment by the House in the morning, conviction by the Senate early afternoon, removal from office by 5 PM at the latest.

I honestly wonder what the quickest we could do impeachment, start to finish. There were basically 3-4 days of floor debate in the House for Clinton’s impeachment. The Judiciary Committee reported the resolution on December 15, 1998, and the vote was held on December 19 (yes, during a lame duck session). The Senate didn’t begin the trial until January 7, 1999. It took a month for that impeachment trial (closing arguments were made February 8, and closed door deliberations went from the 9th through the 12th when they voted).

Depending on whether Paul Ryan has a spine surgically implanted during the recess, he could use his power as Speaker to get Articles of Impeachment through the House fairly quickly. Assuming Trump pisses off another 20 Republican Senators before then, the trial can probably be pretty quick.