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The Dershow

Can the Senate Try Private Citizen Trump?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Now that the House has impeached President Trump for a second time, can the Senate pursue holding a trial in an attempt to disqualify Trump from running in the future?

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0:00.0

The Senate is planning to put Mr. Donald Trump, ex-President Donald Trump, on trial

0:08.4

after he leaves office.

0:11.4

Can they do that under the Constitution?

0:15.0

Stay tuned for The Dersh Show's constitutional seminar on that noon

0:25.0

on January 20th at noon President Trump becomes ex-president and a private citizen.

0:32.0

Yet the Senate of the United States president and a private citizen.

0:33.0

Yet the Senate of the United States may place a private citizen,

0:37.4

Mr. Donald Trump, on trial under provisions of impeachment, articles of impeachment, that were issued by the House of

0:46.0

Representatives while he still served as president. Is that constitutional? Can an ex-president be tried in the Senate on articles of

0:56.5

impeachment that were issued and voted on by the House of

0:59.7

Representatives while he was still serving as president? The answer to that question is clearly no,

1:06.0

under the text of the Constitution, under the policy of the Constitution, and under the intent of the framers. So today we're going to do a

1:15.7

seminar on the constitutional issue of whether a former president or any private citizen can be tried by the Senate for impeachable offenses,

1:27.7

even if there were impeachable offenses, this president has never been charged

1:31.0

with impeachable offenses.

1:32.0

Yeah, the Congress broke the record.

1:34.1

They twice impeached the same president.

1:36.3

But the record they really broke is they twice impeached the same president

1:40.0

both times on non-impeachable grounds under the Constitution.

1:43.6

But put that aside for a moment.

1:45.2

Let's assume that they had come up with the most impeachable crimes.

1:48.8

Let's assume they had come up with treason,

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