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Originally Posted by DMN
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"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."
The senate has no jurisdiction for anything other than those explicitly mentioned in constitution.
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Speaking as a lawyer, you're kind of misconstruing that quote. If a court were to look at that, they would say that the quote relates to what the President can be REMOVED from office for. It speaks to what actions by the President are needed for removal. It doesn't speak to whether they can convict a former President in a trial conducted after he's left office for an impeachment that occurred while he was in office.
Legally/constitutionally speaking, they are essentially fully within their right to hold a trial in the Senate (and in fact need to do so now that they have impeached him). What they probably couldn't do would be to impeach him AFTER he's left office...but there's nothing preventing a trial from occurring after he's left office, because removal from office isn't the only penalty that is applied and the impeachment occurred while he was still in office.