The history and logistics of trying and removing the president from office.
Updated by Andrew Prokopandrew@vox.com May 19, 2017, 6:43pm EDT
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And even changes in the political situation — say, Trump losing some of his base, or the Democrats retaking the House — wouldn’t be enough to surmount that challenging two-thirds barrier in the Senate.
The only thing that can really shake up this calculus is new information. If extremely damning evidence of some very serious presidential crime emerges, and proves sufficient to turn a significant chunk of the president’s party against him, that is when impeachment and conviction becomes a real possibility. But if the topic remains partisan, nothing will come of it.
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