If the impeached President is removed from office, can he run again? Several participants here at Common Sense Civics and Citizenship have raised this question. The answer is “yes.” Here is why:
Article 1, Section 3 gives the Senate 2 powers in the impeachment process: 1. convict a federal official and remove said official from office 2. bar that official from ever holding office in the federal government. The Senate may exercise the first without voting to do the second. Former federal Judge, Alcee Hastings, was impeached and removed from office in 1988 for perjury and bribery. He was not, however, barred from holding federal office. Several years later, Hastings ran for a House seat as a Democrat and won. He has been a Florida Congressman since 1992 until today, serving district 20 (Broward and Palm Beach counties). Currently, President Trump is eligible to run in 2020 as an impeached president. However, unless the Senate convicts, removes, and then bars President Trump (who is a federal official) from ever holding another federal office, he would be eligible to run again.??