Originally Posted by perotista
No Rick. What the house did was the equivalent to an indictment. The house played the role of a grand jury in issuing an indictment. What the house did was not a conviction. A conviction comes when the jury, after a trial, finds the defendant guilty. The trial took place in the senate in this case. The senators were the jury, they pronounced the defendant. Trump, not guilty.
Correct. I misstated what happened. As you wrote, the House did an equivalent of an indictment. Under 14.3, a conviction IS NOT needed - only the behavior is.

Therefore, today's House MUST remove Trump from the ballot as stated in todays SCOTUS order for being an insurrectionist.


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