Posted on 01/24/2021 3:30:25 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul says that a Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump that doesn’t include Chief Justice John Roberts would be an illegitimate process.
“If Justice Roberts won’t preside over this sham ‘impeachment’ then why would it ever be considered legitimate?” the Kentucky Republican tweeted Friday. “Hint: It won’t be.”
Later in the day, Paul joined Fox News’s Sean Hannity and elaborated on his impeachment stance, calling it an “illegitimate procedure” if Roberts isn’t there.
“It isn’t a real impeachment. It’s going to be a fake, partisan impeachment,” Paul said about a process without Roberts.
“The story is,” Paul continued, “that the chief justice is not going to be asked, but the reason he’s not going to be asked is he’s privately said he’s not supposed to come unless it’s an impeachment of the president.”
“So, this is an illegitimate procedure,” he said. “And even the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who's not a rabid Trump person, who's actually, if anything, sort of in the middle, he is now saying this is illegitimate because I’m not getting in the middle of this and I’m not coming over for this.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Again, you cannot Impeach the President as "A President", and then Trial him on those charges as a private citizen.
Just as you assert the former "language", thus "language" also fails the charge: the Constitution does not make private citizens subject to Impeachment.
And note Belknap's post-resignation trial is inapplicable here. (A) Trump did not resign, God bless him; and (B) Trump has what Belknap never had - presidential immunity.
Not only is Roberts going to have to rule on his absence, Queeg will be forced to address a seperate suit asserting that presidential immunity absolves him from the civil actions undertaken by others, and Roberts will be forced to address a case that will be dog-eared with references to Nixon v. Fitzgerald and Clinton v. Jones.
Thus Trump will remind us all that a living President, rather than having been tried and convicted after Office, was instead "alternatively sanctioned":
Klink's perjury (in Office) and suborning perjury (in Office) failed removal, yet this ridiculous banana court insipidity by Madame Defarge arises from a speech where Trump said, "Our country has had enough. We will not take it any more and that’s what this is all about. To use a favourite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.". That's it. It's all about one crazy fucking old lady mad-ass butt-hurt than a dude put her muddy boots on her desk.
My advice to Trump is hire Dersh, hire Turley, but go all-in -- make it all about Pelosi and Schumer, drag Klink into it, drag Roberts into it, drag Karamela into it.
Yes, start the war—FBI has all the people identified—at the first sign they will snuff out any rebellion and into the camps will go all the “Enemies of Freedom
Riiiiight. 75 million with guns being enslaved by liberals? Good luck with that!
roberts is a coward. if there’s a way out of it, he’ll take it.
You should search for and read, “Unintended Consequences”.
Roberts needs to recuse himself, as he is a conspirator to the steal when he refused to take the Pennsylvania case.
Trumps lawyers should put that SOB on the witness stand.
DC itself is become one big ‘illegitimate procedure’. It does not even pretend to follow USConstitution. Lawless and evil, conquered by our enemies.
“It’s an illegitimate procedure regardless.”
EXACTLY! Based, as it is, on the null and void result of an unconstitutional process in The House, wherein hundreds of sitting Representatives outright VIOLATED their Oath of Office.
Oh, but CNN et. al. don’t got no time fo dat truck, ‘cuz dey in fo da big doin’s what’s gwyna sock it to da Orange Man.
Speaking of which... all this Orange Man talk... Da Hell are the Irish? Oughta be a REAL brouhaha boiling up someplace; maybe along about St. Pattie’s Day...
Agree ! Well said !
Well, for one, they are legitimate communists.
BREAKING: Hunter Biden expected to lead DEA— Rep. Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) January 25, 2021
They want to make Trump anathema, not a heroic martyr.
If they handle the spin right, they can manage to make him a mangy dog who got what was coming to him. Just have the fall guy be a disaffected deplorable, angry because Trump wasn’t racist enough for him.
“TV is for fake news, and willful ignorance in the name of subversive narratives.”
See where the MSM cleaned up Schumer’s quote?
Schumer stuttered over “Trump”, then stumbled over “erection” instead of “insurrection”. Those errors were SCRUBBED—Soviet-style reporting!
Rand Paul Drops NUKE on Dems’ Plans for Second Impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIwsd5wtwk
No John Roberts?
It makes no difference.
One must remember that noble Democrats are seeking to purge
the enemies of Democracy from the United States. So, it makes no difference at all what Democrats do because they are Democrats and have license and privilege to do what they choose in their noble quest.
Democrats make the rules, and if it does not coincide with the Constitution, it’ OK because they ARE the law.
See?
/sarcasm/
Put everything on gold, or silver Period. Paper is paper no matter what is printed on it.
Couldn't find an old Scottish law huh?
I think you have a handle on it new.
What is this constitution of which you speak?
When there is no law, only the lawless have power.
Paper is still kosher, but only if you have the bulk of your cash in precious metals as insurance, and a shack in the woods full of canned goods and some arable land and some form of livestock, and a shotgun within reach as insurance against metals failing and civilization collapsing.
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