Impeachment of Bengal Governor-General Warren Hastings figures in Trump trial

By Arul Louis New York, Feb 10 : Warren Hastings, the 18th Century British Governor-General of Bengal, made an appearance in the Senate trial when the prosecutors cited his impeachment by the British House of Commons after he had left office as a precedent for trying Donald Trump who is no longer the President.
During the arguments on Tuesday on the constitutionality of holding the impeachment trial of Trump when he has already left office, Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives who is the lead prosecutor, gave the precedent of the impeachment trial of Hastings that began 233 years ago this month, nearly four years after his governor-generalship ended and he returned to England.
Raskin suggested that the Hastings impeachment in 1787 was a model for framers of the US Constitution who drafted it the same year.
He said, said that there were several impeachments of people who had left office during the lifetime of the drafters of the Constitution and “indeed, the most famous of these impeachments occurred while the framers gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution. It was the impeachment of Warren Hastings, the former governor-general of the British colony of Bengal.” Another prosecutor, Democratic Joe Neguse, also mentioned the impeachment of Hastings.
Trump’s lead lawyer Bruce Castor countered that it had no relevance to the US: “We left the British system.”