Do they have the votes to impeach?
MY guess is that they need 2/3’s someway or another. So don’t don’t think they would get the votes.
Do they have the votes to impeach?
MY guess is that they need 2/3’s someway or another. So don’t don’t think they would get the votes.
Of course. But the point here is that the process will make GOP leadership and DOJ Swampers VERY uncomfortable. They want to knee cap POTUS in the shadows. Nunes is shining a huge spotlight on their treason on the eve of the midterms so it’s highly likely they will back down and start coughing up docs.
House needs simple majority to impeach. 2/3 in the Senate to convict. And limited debate in the House. Constitutional. But How do the Repubs get 69 seats in the Senate to convict. Because McCain won’t. Sure at least one more.
This is reminiscent of the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial. Jackson, like Trump, wanted to fire somebody, in Johnson’s case, the Secretary of War. The Republicans had a veto-proof majority in both the House and Senate, and passed a law saying the President couldn’t fire certain high-ranking officials. Johnson fired him anyway. The impeachment vote was easy. Andrew Johnson survived the Senate trial by one vote (as a Democrat, all Democrats voted against conviction).
From the state of Kansas, Senator Lane (R) was the only Republican who supported Johnson’s vetoes. He face such public and private pressures, he was reported to have committed suicide in 1866. His replacement was Edmund Ross, who led the fight against Senator Lane in Kansas.
The Republicans controlled the Senate 42-12. They only needed 36 to convict. (Southern states waiting for readmittance were denied, as conviction was the number one priority for the Republican Party). Six Republicans declared early for acquittal, as the Constitution clearly allows the President to fire any person holding a position that requires a Senate vote to confirm. Edmund Ross, while opposing virtually all of Johnson’s policies, cast the 19th and deciding vote for acquittal.
1888, Congress repealed the law. Later the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
Pity we don’t have 7 Democrats in the Senate who vote for the Constitution and against political gain.