Posted on 10/16/2019 9:13:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Gregg Jarrett: Latest Pelosi-Schiff impeachment witch hunt is venomous affront to constitutional principles
The quixotic quest to impeach President Trump is not only anathema to the fundamental principles of due process, but constitutes a full-frontal assault on the procedural protections inherent in the due process clause of the Constitution.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her chosen marionette, Rep. Adam Schiff, are operating in the shadows of secrecy. Their authority does not derive from the House of Representatives itself upon a full majority vote. Instead, they have commandeered impeachment power by anointing themselves as the sole determinants.
They alone have chosen a star chamber approach to removing the president. The remaining members of the House are left in the dark without access to facts, documents and testimony. So, too, are President Trump and American voters who placed him in office. What is the purpose of an electoral choice by the many if it can be reversed by the furtive maneuvers of the few? Or two?
In any democracy, the principles of transparency and accountability demand that the actions and decisions of elected officials be open to public scrutiny. Citizens have a right to know what their government is doing. This is even more essential when Congress seeks to impeach a president. Secrecy corrupts the process and delegitimizes governance. The common good is undermined, as order gives way to chaos.
There is nothing more chaotic (and mysterious) than the current impeachment inquiry. Evidence of this is undeniably compelling. No one knows whats going on behind closed doors. The select few who are present or have access to information have been threatened with eviction or an ethics investigation should they disclose to anyone what is happening.
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Amen!
Your suggestion of the timing would be perfect and am looking forward to it.
REVENGE EATS SOULS!
The Clintons never had souls.
Roger that.
Curiously, there doesn’t seem to be ONE democrat on that committee who has integrity or self respect.
What a terrible situation, to be governed by those who would do what they are doing.
What a horrible bunch of people.
I wonder if, in the future, these times will be considered the “Nixon impeachment in reverse?” What Democrats are doing is ruining the whole impeachment process and it has become meaningless.
Oh, and Bill Clinton was accused of being a sexual predator to his subordinates and then coaching the witnesses and then lying about it — back when Democrats cared about women or pretended to with Clarence Thomas.
MS. PELOSI’S SENILITY IS BEGINNING TO SHOW.
And it impeachment fails, then that will not look good either. A bit of a quandary for Pelosi — ride it out and it bumps into the election, act too quickly and it will likely fail.
That’s a fact.
Any day now I expect Pelosi and POSchiff run to the microphones to announce they have introduced legislation to demand that all Americans the right to eat cake. Even as they ignore the baskets being placed at the head of the guillotines. HIS and HERS
Don’t be too sure. Power is all, and they have the power - simply because they have seized it.
The House of Representatives was not meant to govern the United States, and for that matter, neither were the intelligence services (unthought of at the time).
But nobody is opposing them, so they’re running with it. There has got to be a constitutional challenge to this, because I can’t believe some entity of government, while entitled to set its own policies, can do things that conflict with all of the Constitutional guarantees to due process and legality.
I is not about that, it is about giving Schiff's committee the ability to subpoena and gather dirt without giving the minority any rights at all. If the voted to impeach in the House the minority would have similar rights. It is all about denying the minority any right to challenge anything they say, other than complain.
So when do we see charges of sedition brought against all the committee chairpimples and Nanny?
So when do we see charges of sedition brought against all the committee chairpimples and Nanny?
Tremendous analysis. I have saved it in documents.
“I is not about that, it is about giving Schiff’s committee the ability to subpoena and gather dirt without giving the minority any rights at all. If the voted to impeach in the House the minority would have similar rights. It is all about denying the minority any right to challenge anything they say, other than complain.”
Then they shouldn’t cooperate with their subpoenas.
Jarrett has been doing yeoman work
Oh sure thing. That one really took off
Well, Americans don’t believe in secret trials, but the power of the House of Representatives over impeachment is absolute, and the Members who nexercise that power and who make the rules have to face the voters every two years.
And that’s the way it is.
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