Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding.

Yes and no. Remember: the outcome of an impeachment trial is acquittal or conviction. That is the official language. The questions raised by the behavior of a president who's been impeached is whether he's committed "high crimes and misdemeanors."

How it works is explained here:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/impeachment

And this addresses the question under consideration:

FEDERAL IMPEACHMENT AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: THE FRAMERS' INTENT

This article examines whether or not the framers of the U.S. Constitution intended that the impeachment of a Federal public official should be considered a criminal proceeding subject to all the constitutional guarantees for such a proceeding.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/federal-impeachment-and-criminal-procedure-framers-intent

Unfortunately, there's no download available. They do suggest some libraries.