51. Republicans say they have been told that a vote for impeachment is more of a symbolic move because the Senate will not remove the president. 52. Senators have already sat through three days of uninterrupted evidence and argument imploring them to go the ultimate step in the impeachment process and remove the president from office. 53. Senators also debated whether the Senate should have a different standard for removing a president from office than it used in removing Federal judges. 54. Some lawmakers say the Constitution requires only a simple majority to remove the president. 55. That is why the president should be removed from office, explains Liu, who sits outside the cafeteria editing a paper in Chinese for a professor. 56. The argument is that the Constitution says the president should be removed only for crimes that imperil the nation. 57. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote to remove a president from office. 58. The defense is expected to be a highly-charged condemnation of the tactics used by Republicans and independent counsel Kenneth Starr to remove the president from office. 59. The Constitution has no provision, in its impeachment clauses, for an outside prosecutor to start the process of removing a president from office. 60. The only recourse mentioned in the Constitution is the Senate removing the president from office. |