By December then? I think the plan would be to charge Kav in a state like Maryland with no statute of limitations. Then they can impeach him before he is seated. But all this time and expense could be avoided if he just withdrew from consideration. Maybe Trump will withdraw his nomination in a last minute play for the female vote? Any Trump impeachment would wait until the new Congress is seated. But it's quite likely Mueller's report will be out by the end of the year. Then we'll be handicapping chances of a Pence Pardon.Good, let them probe away. They can continue probing all they like. They can probe after he's confirmed and if any actual charges can be documented with actual evidence then he can be removed from the bench. I suspect we'll see that about the same time we see evidence of actual Trump collusion with Russians.
Watergate took two years but this is a much more complicated investigation, so I've been very impressed with how rapidly Mueller and his team have been able to come up with indictments and pleas, and now sentencing. Pretty impressive!