Reply #59: The process of impeachment is necessarily a political one. [View All]

[Selatius]

By having the trial in the Senate, it's likely all you end up doing is generating another straight party-line vote or a virtual party-line vote. Procedurally, it's rather easy to remove a president. Unfortunately, I don't think the Founding Fathers could really account for the judgment of senators being compromised by partisanship and special interest money.

Overcoming the sheer level of partisanship being displayed by Repubs and the vested interests that don't want the war to end? That's terribly difficult.