The Impeachment Trial

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Have you ever noticed that people break a lot of laws. Even the President can break a law if he wanted to. Impeachment is what stops the president´s wrongdoing. I think that the president should be sent straight to jail if accused of wrongdoing by the police. This is my case. The impeachment trial is something that gets the president out of office if he has done something wrong. However the process of the impeachment trial is a long one that could take only a few minutes. That is why we need police to accuse the president and not an impeachment. Impeachment takes too long. Another reason The impeachment trial should be taken down is, The impeachment trial is also expensive. The police do not cost that much money, only getting payed.

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