If both President Trump and Vice-President Pence are impeached and convicted, Nancy Pelosi will become President.
to the Wall Street Journal that Ambassador Gordon Sondland had told him in August 2019 that aid to Ukraine was tied to Mr. Trump’s request to have Kiev investigate Democrats; and when he sought permission to tell Ukraine the aid was on its way, Trump refused.
It now transpires that Vice President Pence was also deeply involved in the Ukraine matter, having had a representative on the July 25 phone call, having received a briefing on the call, and being himself the messenger who informed the Ukraine government that continuation of military assistance was dependent on investigating corruption in which the Bidens might be involved.
Legal scholars are generally agreed that “impeachable” is not the same as ‘illegal.’ Some abuses of office may be impeachable even if not criminal, while not all criminal conduct is impeachable. In 1970, then-Representative Gerald Ford famously defined an impeachable offense as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” Yet getting two-thirds of the Senate to convict isn’t quite as easy or as arbitrary.
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