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So let's review. Congress has to impeach someone and the Senate dismiss them.
Congress can not impeach someone who is not holding a federal job.
Therefore any president who attempts to steal the election is immune to prosecution unless they run again later and get re-elected and therefore are now eligible to be impeached and dismissed?
What am I missing
You’re arguing something that is fundamentally not relevant.
Sorry. That’s not what the SCROTUS decision is about.
Stop it. You sound like a republican.
Edit: they are saying a “specific act”. I’m not sure what they envision it detailing, but it’s not a full impeachment. If you view victor berger’s unseating as a result of his espionage conviction (which is really the only procedural precedent we’ve got,) then that’s a simple majority vote.
This is worse than I thought (I’m basing it off reading the actual ruling unfortunately my eyes must have glazed over, and I’m not all the way through-)
End edit:
The scotus decision basically just says that Colorado can’t enforce the 14th on federal employees.
Their reasoning, if I understood it right is that:
They explicitly shied away from making a decision on that. (Probably since we all fucking saw it live on Jan 6.)