# Impeachment Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2019, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-question/845070 "2019-12-19T05:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-question/845070/1 "2019-12-19T05:33:54Z")
This is a hypothetical question, not intended to refer to any real person, living or dead. I just want to know the law. Suppose a President of the US is impeached, but the Speaker of the House is not happy with what she has heard from the Senate Majority Leader about his plans for the conduct of the Senate trial, so she wants to delay forwarding the articles of impeachment to the Senate until she extracts some concessions from the Senate leader regarding the trial. Suppose further that the Senate leader is a man who is utterly without principles or honor. Is there any way that the House Speaker can be sure that the Senate leader will not repudiate whatever concessions he grants, if necessary by holding procedural votes in the Senate that require only a majority to pass, as soon as the articles are forwarded? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-question/845070)._