While President Trump has displayed many idiosyncrasies that many find characteristically unpresidential or generally unsavory in nature, it has yet to be seen that such an unsavory nature includes legal transgression. Moreover, while many accusations, and, in some cases, rudimentary arguments, have been presented toward the idea of President Trump having broken a law, it has yet to be concretely proven or accepted in any court that such has taken place. Having not been shown to have broken any laws, it is by mere technicality that the Senate could theoretically impeach him, for, while the Constitution is ambiguous in its description on the requiem for impeachment, such proceedings on the basis of character alone would inevitably leave too much room for doubt. Thus, no impeachment proceeding could succeed in the spirit of constitutional justice, i.e. returning a verdict “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Due to this, while it is legal by technicality to bring such a proceeding to the floor of the Senate, the justification of such would be extralegal in spirit. This being the case, it is inadvisable that the Senate begin proceedings for impeachment against President Trump at this time. …show more content…
In such a case, it would become inherent to the Senate’s endeavor of national service to commence a trial for impeachment. As it stands now, though, the only evidence against him has not been clearly demonstrated to contradict the law of the United