Rick Scott Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Raise Threshold for Impeachment

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) walks through Statuary Hall to the House Chamber for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) called for an amendment to the Constitution to raise the House voting threshold to approve articles of impeachment, a day after President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate.

Scott made the announcement on Feb. 6 with the aim of making it more difficult for presidents to be impeached, saying that the United States “should never again have to suffer from this partisan hackery.”