Now that the president has been impeached by the House, the Senate may disqualify him from holding future public office “and” may also remove him from office if his term has not already ended. Mike Jacobs, WashingtonI thank The Post for bringing disparate views from noted scholars on whether a civil officer, including the president, can be tried under articles of impeachment after leaving office. David Fisher, BethesdaADI am at a true loss for words in trying to understand how a prominent, conservative former federal judge could argue that President Trump cannot be impeached after leaving office while acknowledging that Congress in 1797 impeached a federal officer after leaving office. The entire idea behind originalism is that the Constitution should be interpreted and applied as originally contemplated when written. If the founding generation, who wrote the Constitution, felt it had the power to do so, who is J. Michael Luttig to disagree?

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2021 22:18 UTC