It IS legal to convict Trump in the Senate per (drum roll please) ....

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ROMNEY: Well, I’ve read a number of law review articles. And I think you can put aside the partisan columns, if you will, that are written in various publications and look at those that are written by academics.

You will find that the preponderance of the legal opinion is that an impeachment trial after someone’s left office is constitutional. I believe that’s the case. I will, of course, hear what the lawyers have to say for each side.

But I think it’s pretty — pretty clear that the effort is constitutional.

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ROMNEY: Well, yes, I believe that what is being alleged and what we saw, which is incitement to insurrection, is an impeachable offense. If not, what is?

The — it continues a pattern that the president had of trying to corrupt the election by his communication with Ukraine, by trying to corrupt the election with regards to the lie that he’s been spreading over the last several months, and then, if you will, firing up a crowd and encouraging them to march on the Capitol at the time that the Congress was carrying out its constitutional responsibility to certify the election.

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