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won it by a landslide’’, as well as ‘‘if you don’t fight like 
hell you’re not going to have a country anymore’’, as un-
deniable evidence that ‘‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’ 
were committed, and that President Trump engaged in 
‘‘insurrection or rebellion against the United States’’; 
Whereas Article I of the Resolution conveniently fails to men-
tion the fact that President Trump explicitly stated, ‘‘I 
know that everyone here will soon be marching over to 
the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make 
your voices heard’’; 
Whereas the consideration of the Resolution by the House of 
Representatives failed to follow any meaningful legislative 
process whatsoever; 
Whereas not a single evidentiary hearing on the Resolution 
was held, no witnesses were heard, and no process or op-
portunity to respond was provided to President Trump; 
Whereas no Members of Congress were provided an oppor-
tunity to review or amend the Resolution before it came 
before the full House of Representatives for consider-
ation; 
Whereas the Committee on Rules of the House of Represent-
atives is the only committee that published an official 
Committee Report for the Resolution, that being the Re-
port accompanying H. Res. 41, the rule providing for 
floor consideration of the Resolution; 
Whereas while a ‘‘Majority Staff Report’’ was released by 
Democrats on the House Committee on the Judiciary, the 
Committee did not issue an official Committee Report, 
via regular order, for H. Res. 24, the Resolution itself; 
Whereas failing to issue a Committee Report for H. Res. 24 
conveniently precluded House Judiciary Committee Re-
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publicans a forum in which they may have showcased 
their dissenting views on the Resolution; 
Whereas to assert that a lone Committee Report accom-
panying a procedural rule for floor consideration provided 
sufficient due process to the Trump administration or the 
American people via their elected representatives, and to 
assert that voting Yea on the Resolution was justified, 
runs contrary to the Oath of Office taken by all Members 
of the House of Representatives; 
Whereas neither the Committee Report issued by the Com-
mittee on Rules of the House of Representatives, nor the 
text of the Impeachment Resolution itself, contain any 
mention of the text of section 3 of article I of the Con-
stitution, which provides that ‘‘Judgment in Cases of Im-
peachment shall not extend further than to removal from 
Office’’; 
Whereas a plain reading of the text of section 3 of article I 
of the Constitution demonstrates that an official tried, 
and convicted, in the Senate must first occupy the ‘‘Of-
fice’’ from which he is to be removed, let alone forever 
be disqualified from ‘‘hold[ing] any office . . . under the 
United States’’; 
Whereas in frantically passing the Impeachment Resolution 
on January 13, 2021, only 2 days after it was introduced 
in a frenzy of hysteria, House Democrats, and 10 House 
Republicans, left the Senate only one week to conduct a 
complete trial and convict President Trump before he left 
office; 
Whereas doing so left the Senate virtually no chance to com-
port with section 3 of article I of the Constitution; 
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Whereas unsurprisingly, 31 days passed before the Senate 
held a vote and failed to convict President Trump, 23 
days after he had left office; and 
Whereas as further indication of the partisan political motiva-
tions behind the Resolution, once the Article of Impeach-
ment was passed by the House of Representatives and 
transmitted to the Senate, the Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court refused to serve as the presiding officer for 
the trial, as required by section 3 of article I of the Con-
stitution, and instead the Senate President pro tempore, 
Senator Pat Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, and a re-
liably partisan politician, served as the presiding officer, 
perfecting the entirety of the process as nothing more 
than an unconstitutional exercise in futility, moot, and 
fantastical political theater: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the January 13, 2021, impeachment 
of President Donald John Trump is expunged, as if such 
Article had never passed the full House of Representa-
tives, as the facts and circumstances upon which such Ar-
ticle was based met the burden of proving neither that 
President Trump committed ‘‘high Crimes and Mis-
demeanors’’, as set forth in section 4 of article II of the 
Constitution, nor that President Trump engaged in ‘‘in-
surrection or rebellion against the United States’’, such 
that he is forever precluded from ‘‘hold[ing] any office 
. . . under the United States’’ pursuant to section 3 of 
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. 
Æ 
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