# Trump is impeached. How quickly, or even could he be removed before the election? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 25, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284 "2019-10-25T15:56:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284/41 "2019-11-03T22:09:11Z")
If the Senate votes for Guilty, then Pence and Chief Justice Roberts are both right there. I suspect that Pence would have his Bible ready to hand for the swearing in. 15 minutes, tops. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284/42 "2019-11-03T23:57:55Z")
The key to Trump’s survival is Mitch McConnell, and to a lesser extent, Lindsay Graham, which is ironic when you consider how both have been attacked and chastened by Trump’s base. But while they may fear Trump’s base, they are also the ones who will punish Trump if the base so much as shrinks. As long as McConnell and the senate conservatives fear Trump’s base, they will protect him. But if the base starts to peel voters, then you’ll probably see senators, many of whom have crossed Trump, abandon Trump, not so much to punish Trump but to save their party in the senate. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284/43 "2019-11-04T19:57:43Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > Do the Senate’s rules permit a senator to call for an immediate vote following a brief presentation of prosecution charges and a rudimentary defense? If so, can the trial be abbreviated to mere days, if that long? If not, do Senate procedures allow any similar blockage of a full prosecution? Roberts presides, yes, but how flexibly? Kind of. Robert Byrd moved for a dismissal right after the Managers presented their case against Clinton but it was voted down. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284/44 "2019-11-04T20:04:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I think not and I hope not. What I think happens is that as soon as the Senate is officially notified of the impeachment that they stop all other business, give John Roberts a call, and from then until the vote they’re nothing more than jurors and Roberts will preside just like any judge in any trial. That is incorrect. He is presiding over a deliberative body. The Senate can still make motions with the CJ empowered to carry them out (if passed) in the name of the Senate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-impeached-how-quickly-or-even-could-he-be-removed-before-the-election/842284.md?page=2)