Posted on 01/21/2021 2:32:57 PM PST by 1066AD
Should have Ditched Mitch years ago , he’s started butt kissing the Dems already
Good question.
I mean why not? It seems we can impeach Presidents for the hell of it after they leave office. The entire capitol is evil, corrupt snd wicked.
Senate has done this before ... and not only thatm, articles of impeachment were passed AFTER resignation from office.
Senate had a trial anyway.
What the constitution says is fodder for academic debate.
Muck You Fitch!!!
It’s no coincidence that Mitch rhymes with bitch.
Lindsey Graham
I completely support the process laid out by Leader McConnell regarding the upcoming impeachment trial. I hope my Democratic colleagues will agree.
The process being proposed is acceptable to the former Presidentas legal team and fair to the Senate, the House, and the nation.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1352393971776057349
A) McConnell: I have sent a proposed timeline for the first phases of the upcoming impeachment trial to Leader Schumer and look forward to continuing to discuss it with him.
B) McConnell: Senate Republicans are strongly united behind the principle that the institution of the Senate, the office of the presidency, and former President Trump himself all deserve a full and fair process that respects his rights
C) McConnell: Given the unprecedented speed of the House’s process, our proposed timeline for the initial phases includes a modest and reasonable amount of additional time for both sides to assemble their arguments before the Senate would begin to hear them.
D) McConnell: At this time of strong political passions, Senate Republicans believe it is absolutely imperative that we do not allow a half-baked process to short-circuit the due process that former President Trump deserves or damage the Senate or the presidency.
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1352390879898726401
Cboldt: I think this is a trap. Senate will rule that evidence of election fraud is inadmissible.
Why did McConnell go straight to acquiescence?
-PJ
“Will it happen? Even CNN has said there was no incitement.”
Doesn’t a trial mean discovery? They DON’T want that.
I sincerely hope the Democrats are stupid enough to go ahead with this.
To start it’s clearly unconstitutional. Next, it will only make Trump more popular. Finally it will waste time the Democrats could use to do something truly harmful like passing laws.
If they go ahead with this, I will write Trump’s name onto every ballot at every position for the rest of my life.
The ‘nuclear’ option...only in this case it blows up whats left of the Republican party!
Can a private citizen be tried by the senate???
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Do laws really matter?
Once Trump left office he became a private citizen, and the Bill of Attainder prohibition then applied. He was only subject to impeachment because of his office. If he did something wrong, that’s now up to the civil and criminal judicial system, but the Constitution prohibits legislative trials.
This situation is pretty close to the classic bill of attainder. There, when a political faction fell out of power, Parliament would generally “attaint” them, strip them of their lands and titles, and then cut their heads off.
If this weren’t the standard, the next Republican Congress could go back and retroactively impeach Obama, Clinton and Carter, even though they’re long gone from office. Obviously that’s absurd although I can think of at least one valid article of impeachment against Obama (illegally transferring funds to Iran in violation of federal law).
Note, however, the “regicides” who participated in the execution of Charles I were later attainted even after their deaths, and the corpses were dug up and ritually executed.
It’s all beltway kabuki. China Mitch is setting up a fake defense of Trump by the GOP Senate after he is out of office and can’t benefit politically. Typical Uniparty theater.
They want a show trial. He should just tell them to have their show and snail mail him the results.
> Might be trying to blackmail him into backing off for 2022
That means they’ll have to stretch out the drama for another year or so.
Mootness is very much at issue.
What is cocaine Mitch afraid of?
They would dig up Roland Freisler if they could.
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