Quote from: crypto1010 on February 06, 2020, 06:25:49 PM

Quote from: JollyGood on February 06, 2020, 01:02:17 PM

Ah yes, I forgot about that. Having a simple 51-49 majority would not work because that would be undemocratic so the 2/3rds minimum would be required.

Quote from: suchmoon on February 06, 2020, 12:54:19 PM

No, it takes 2/3 so ~20 Republicans would need to flip.

Well, this isn't a simple vote mate. ''For criminal trials, nearly every state requires the jury to produce a unanimous verdict.'' So, normally, it's not 2/3, it's everyone or nothing.

Our criminal justice system is based on a system designed to find 10 guilty men Not Guilty for every one innocent man found Guilty. In reality it's more like 100 -1, especially for people who can afford a good lawyer.

A Senate trial is not a criminal trial, and someone who is convicted and removed is still explicitly considered innocent of any crime until found guilty in a criminal trial.

If it were a real criminal trial, literally every Senator would be removed from the jury before the trial even started.