A view from the U.S. Senate side shows the U.S. Capitol Dome (L) in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Politico: There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office
It would take just three Republican senators to turn the impeachment vote into a secret ballot. It’s not hard to imagine what would happen then.
By most everyone’s judgment, the Senate will not vote to remove President Donald Trump from office if the House impeaches him. But what if senators could vote on impeachment by secret ballot? If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?
A secret impeachment ballot might sound crazy, but it’s actually quite possible. In fact, it would take only three senators to allow for that possibility.
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Update: Impeachment Vote Could Be Taken by Secret Ballot (Newsmax)
WNU Editor: The author of the above post is Juleanna Glover who has worked as an adviser for several Republican politicians that include George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Rudy Giuliani, and the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Jeb Bush. Can anyone say "Never Trumper". But she does lay out a possible way for a U.S. Senate impeachment vote to be held by secret ballot. The question that remains unanswered is ... will the Republican Party (or at least some of them) go down this path?
