Impeachment is a formal accusation of wrongdoing. It doesn’t remove the President from office.
To remove a President, first you need to impeach him (simple majority in the House) and then you need to pass a vote to convict in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds supermajority.
Trump was already impeached twice. On neither occasion was he convicted.
As things stand, that Senate vote to convict will almost certainly fail. That will also almost certainly be the case even after the midterms.
So the impeachment would act as something of a formal condemnation, but unless you’re really into symbolic gestures, it’s probably not the most-important thing. It doesn’t alter the balance of power or do much to Trump.
What having a House majority will do is let the Democrats conduct investigations, and they probably should do that. If the Trump administration has been doing sufficiently-sketchy things that previously hadn’t been turned up and they turn it up, that might get enough votes in the Senate. But absent new information, impeachment isn’t going to have much real impact.
It’s “not a top priority”.
It wouldn’t be a major priority for me, either.
Impeachment is a formal accusation of wrongdoing. It doesn’t remove the President from office.
To remove a President, first you need to impeach him (simple majority in the House) and then you need to pass a vote to convict in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds supermajority.
Trump was already impeached twice. On neither occasion was he convicted.
As things stand, that Senate vote to convict will almost certainly fail. That will also almost certainly be the case even after the midterms.
So the impeachment would act as something of a formal condemnation, but unless you’re really into symbolic gestures, it’s probably not the most-important thing. It doesn’t alter the balance of power or do much to Trump.
What having a House majority will do is let the Democrats conduct investigations, and they probably should do that. If the Trump administration has been doing sufficiently-sketchy things that previously hadn’t been turned up and they turn it up, that might get enough votes in the Senate. But absent new information, impeachment isn’t going to have much real impact.