This is the Cator Daily Podcast for Friday, January 22nd, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

We have a new president, sure, but the old one is still awaiting his trial before the US Senate but what's the point he's

out of office it's over right kateos jean hilly discusses why the US Senate should take this

impeachment trial more seriously than they did the last one. I live just

outside of Louisville, Kentucky. The president won this state handily, but even among

the president's bigger fans that I know, they're ready for him not to be a part of their regular news day?

Well, he's worked out a way to stay center stage even when he's not president any longer.

If and when there's an impeachment trial. He's not president any longer.

If and when there's an impeachment trial in the Senate,

you will be living rent-free in our heads once more.

Richard Nixon, after he lost the presidency said,

you know, you're not going to have Dick Nixon

to kick around anymore, but we're going to be kicking around

Donald Trump and Donald Trump related matters

for as long as this question is before the Senate.

The Constitution seems to assume that impeachment is something that happens to people who are in office and as of this

recording the president has been out of office for a little over two hours.

Is it constitutional to have a trial for someone who is no longer in office?

It is constitutional and it's been done before. But that said, you can

understand why people are receptive to the argument that it's not. And that's not just Senate Republicans who would like a convenient way to deduct the issue, but just anyone looking at the Constitution the text seems to assume

someone that's in office you know the it says the president and other civil officers of the United States

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