Posted on 09/07/2016 5:31:24 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
For months, I have been arguing that Hillary Clinton should be impeached. It is all well and good to prosecute a former government official for any crimes she has committed. Indeed, the Constitution expressly provides for criminal prosecution in addition to impeachment. Nevertheless, for the Framers — and, if we had common sense, for us — the imperative was to deprive a corrupt person of any further opportunity to abuse government power. Whether the official should also be convicted and sent to prison was not unimportant but, in the greater scheme of things, decidedly secondary.
Interestingly, the main pushback I received upon positing this argument was not that Mrs. Clinton is undeserving of impeachment. That, of course, is a measure of the seriousness of her high crimes and misdemeanors: the e-mail scandal; the reckless mishandling of classified information that has surely exposed our national-defense secrets to hostile powers; the mass destruction of thousands of government records after Congress asked for them; the obstruction of government investigations; the serial lies to Congress and the public; the shocking failure to provide security for Americans stationed in Benghazi and the failure to attempt to rescue them during a terrorist siege; the lies to the American people and to the families of murdered American officials about the cause of the attack; the trumping up of a prosecution against the video producer scapegoated for the Benghazi attack; the Clinton Foundation corruption involving the sale of influence for donations, the favors done for shady benefactors at the expense of national security, and the use of the State Department as an arm of the Clinton pay-to-play enterprise.
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My gut reaction to this headline was that it was a stupid idea. But on considering it a moment, it’s a stupid idea.
Oh STOP! ANdy McCarthy is one of the GOOD GUYS!!
Kind of a dumb article. A) she’s not Secretary of State anymore. B) there isn’t enough time to vote to impeach and hold a trial in the Senate between now and November. And C) she would never get the required number of votes to convict.
Many criminals never stop until they are incarcerated or eliminated. Witness Bill Clinton, the impeached one. Horse/barn door.
Lawless/3rd world superpower ALERT!
She holds no office ... what will you impeach her from?
How do you impeach someone who is not a government official?
Impeach her at the ballot box!
NR is obviously pushing for impeachment because that would make the Republicans look bad and further NR’s anti Trump aspirations
The clueless at NR are still stuck on clueless.
The Klinton and the Kennedy Klan are part of the “Protected Class”
The only way to get rid of them is old age.
Impeachment would be spun into partisan politics.
Destroy her unequivocally at the ballot box, then tie her up with prosecutors the rest of her life
How about the American people just impeach her at the ballot box?
How about NRO getting on board with Trump?
Read the article. You do NOT need to be in office to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Reading is fundamental, but since you didn't read the article and probably won't read the reply, you impeach her as Secretary of State. The only requirement is that she once held the job, not that she is currently holding it. Thereafter, she is prohibited from holding any future offices and barred from becoming president.
That said, it's a spectacularly bad idea as all it would look like is "dirty tricks from the mean ole nasty GOP" and actually push votes to her. They wouldn't be able to accomplish the proceedings/Trial nor would they be able to get the votes in time.
Impeachment is a wonderful thing if those empowered to do it were more interested in righteousness than political power. One of the basic flaws of our Constitutional form of government is that it relies on our elected and appointed officials doing the right thing.
Or, you know, you could just help support the candidate most likely to defeat her.
Lynch and Comey should be removed from office
AND
INVESTIGATED AND PROSECUTED....
Comey / Lynch in the tank with the Clintons and obstructed JUSTICE...
how...?
by not bring the matter to a jury.... let them decide
nixon was impeach for far less....
Ryan and McConnell would have to grow some and that ain’t about to happen
Andy McCarthy: Trump is a Thinned Skinned Tyrant
Andy McCarthy: Trump Playing GOP Voters For ‘Chumps,’ Because ‘He Is Exactly What We’ve Been Fighting All This Time’
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