Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Democrats’ plan to impeach President Trump for a second time over the U.S. Capitol riot will not succeed.
“The case cannot come to trial in the Senate, because the Senate has rules, and the rules would not allow the case to come to trial until, according to the majority leader, until 1 p.m. on January 20th, an hour after President Trump leaves office,” Dershowitz said on Fox News' “Sunday Morning Futures.”
He went on to argue that the Constitution doesn’t allow the impeachment of a former president.
“And the Constitution specifically says, ‘The President shall be removed from office upon impeachment.’ It doesn’t say the former president. Congress has no power to impeach or try a private citizen, whether it be a private citizen named Donald Trump or named Barack Obama or anyone else,” he said.
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