Trump Impeachment Scenario: Theoretically Real, Almost Miraculous Could the midterms make impeachment and impeachment of Trump a realistic prospect? Lawrence Shebett, who taught constitutional law at Harvard for half a century and wrote one of the most widely used textbooks on the subject, laid out just that scenario over the weekend. His math is striking, and his caveat itself is no less striking: it will require a miracle. Tribes argument is a simple calculus. "In Tuesday's elections, the Republicans defend 20 seats in the Senate and the Democrats 13," he wrote in X. "If, by some miraculous coincidence, the Democrats hold all 13 of their seats and win each of the 20 that the Republicans are defending, they will have the 67 seats and votes in the Senate needed to find Donald's Senate confirmation and Donald's further impeachment. "The impeachment of a president requires two-thirds of the Senate after the House votes to impeach - something that has never happened in American history. Trump was impeached twice during his first term and won both times. The post has attracted more than 600,000 views and is pinned to the top of his profile - a sign of how serious the scenario is being circulated. But flipping all 20 Republican seats in one cycle — many of them in deep red territory — is considered an unattainable goal. Shebat himself admitted this, and called the scenario a miracle. What gives an idea its weight is not the odds but the source. Shebat spent five decades teaching constitutional law at Harvard, frequently criticized Trump, and recently joined the advisory board of the Rule of Law Project. A new group of former prosecutors and civil rights leaders aims to hold Trump administration officials accountable for corruption and abuses. When a figure of stature charts a path to removal, even one he calls a miracle, it lands as something other than a partisan talking point.

Trump Impeachment Scenario: Theoretically Real, Almost Miraculous Could the midterms make impeachment and impeachment of Trump a realistic prospect? Lawrence Shebett, who taught constitutional law at Harvard for half a century and wrote one of the most widely used textbooks on the subject, laid out just that scenario over the weekend. His math is striking, and his caveat itself is no less striking: it will require a miracle. Tribes argument is a simple calculus. "In Tuesday's elections, the Republicans defend 20 seats in the Senate and the Democrats 13," he wrote in X. "If, by some miraculous coincidence, the Democrats hold all 13 of their seats and win each of the 20 that the Republicans are defending, they will have the 67 seats and votes in the Senate needed to find Donald's Senate confirmation and Donald's further impeachment. "The impeachment of a president requires two-thirds of the Senate after the House votes to impeach - something that has never happened in American history. Trump was impeached twice during his first term and won both times. The post has attracted more than 600,000 views and is pinned to the top of his profile - a sign of how serious the scenario is being circulated. But flipping all 20 Republican seats in one cycle — many of them in deep red territory — is considered an unattainable goal. Shebat himself admitted this, and called the scenario a miracle. What gives an idea its weight is not the odds but the source. Shebat spent five decades teaching constitutional law at Harvard, frequently criticized Trump, and recently joined the advisory board of the Rule of Law Project. A new group of former prosecutors and civil rights leaders aims to hold Trump administration officials accountable for corruption and abuses. When a figure of stature charts a path to removal, even one he calls a miracle, it lands as something other than a partisan talking point.