• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    they would have to convict him first. maybe that’s part of the reason they want to delay the trial.

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      Notably the constitution doesn’t actually require a trial of any sort. The amendment was put in after the civil war, it would have been impossible to have a trial for everyone that participated in the Confederacy. Bit of an open question how that gets determined nowadays though.