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[–] aaaa@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago

And this really requires a law to be broken; it's a not a recall vote or a "you're doing a bad job" remedy something like that, but to deal with lawbreaking.

This is not technically true. Impeachment is a 100% political process, and doesn't require a law to be broken, only for enough of Congress to agree that the President needs to be removed.

Incidentally, this was the defense for Trump's first two impeachments, with his lawyers arguing that since impeachment is a political process, the legal accusations should be brought to court. And at the same time his lawyers were arguing in court that if the President does it, it's not illegal, and it can only be handled by impeachment.