re: #393 KGxvi

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.

Since it’s a purely political process that has no real procedural requirements (as far as I know) other than the specified vote margins to impeach and convict, one day seems perfectly reasonable to me. The case against tr*mp is a matter of public record. Of course members of Congress do love to bloviate for the cameras, which would slow things down.

Perhaps wannabe bloviators could be persuaded to act fast instead as a show of force vs. tr*mp and tr*mpism, which the Republicans will mostly be in favor of if/when they get their marching orders from the GOP donor class that tr*mp is a failure and never-Conservative to be disposed of ASAP.