Laws Are Clear- Former Officeholders Cannot Be Convicted And Barred From Future Office For Impeachable Offenses-By Harsha Sankar(January 2021)

Read Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution. Section 4 "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors".

Read the following. "Article I, § 3, cl. 7, limits the judgment after impeachment to removal from office and disqualification from future federal office holding, but it allows criminal trial following conviction upon impeachment."

The actual wording of the US Constitution Article 1,Section 3, Clause 7, first phrase "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States". It is plain and simple.

U.S. Senate conviction of the President can only remove him/her from office and upon removal, then he/she can be disqualified from holding a future federal office. In other words, he/she has to be removed from office first in order to be barred from holding future federal office. The wording is clear. "And"and not the words "either" and "or" were used. Therefore, President Trump cannot be tried in the US Senate for any matter in which he was impeached for because he is no longer in office. If he cannot be removed from office since he is no longer in office, he can never be disqualified from holding federal office in the future. Of course, the US Constitution is hardly followed so it is anyone's guess as to what will happen.