Democrats Successfully Pull off a Sleight of Hand Trick on America
The current Impeachment of POTUS Donald J. Trump, was never about impeaching POTUS Trump, albeit, the Democrats want such action to occur. No, this is a sleight of hand by the Democrats. As the impeachment trial occurs in the Senate, no other legislation or other business is conducted by the Senate. What does this mean? Let’s look at something that happened in the final year of the previous President. In February 2016 WaPo ran with the headline
“Republicans vow no hearings and no votes for Obama’s Supreme Court pick”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/23/key-senate-republicans-say-no-hearings-for-supreme-court-nom
So we see in 2016 the Republicans would not and did not have any hearings for then sitting President Obama. Thus denying Democrats from appointing a leftist pick to the SCOTUS. The Republicans did say they would do so after the Presidential election, no matter who was elected as President. This is another among a long list of reasons why “elections have consequences” and why the Democrats are so hell bent on over turning the 2016 election results and have been set on interfering with the 2020 elections.
As of January 26. 2020 President Donald J. Trump has had the US Senate confirm 187 Article III Federal Justices. This list includes
2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
50 Justices for the United States Court of Appeals
133 Justices for the United States District Courts
2 Judges for United States Court of International Trade
There are 18 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action, including:
1 Justice for the United States Court of Appeals
16 Justices for the United States District Courts
1 Justice for the United States Court of International Trade
In terms of Article I courts, as of January 9, 2020, the Senate has confirmed 15 judges nominated by Trump, including
5 for the United States Court of Federal Claims,
4 for the United States Tax Court,
4 for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims,
1 for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and
1 for the United States Court of Military Commission Review.
There are currently 8 nominations to Article I courts awaiting Senate action, including
3 for the United States Court of Federal Claims and
3 for the Tax Court and 2 for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
There are currently
6 vacancies on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims,
4 on the U.S. Tax Court, 2 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims,
0 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services, and
0 on the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review.
Trump designated Susan G. Braden and Margaret M. Sweeney as chief judges of the Court of Federal Claims. There is currently 1 nomination to an Article IV court awaiting Senate action. In terms of Article IV territorial courts, as of January 3, 2020, Trump has not made any appointments or elevated any judges to the position of chief judge.
Knowing that POTUS Trump has fundamentally transformed and is in the process of changing the biases of the court either towards a neutral or more right leaning court, the Democrats had to do something with the most utmost urgence.
A second reason tied to this is the fact the Senate was not turned over during the midterm elections. Instead, not only was the Senate house not turned over, the Democrats lost seats during the midterm election giving the republicans the majority power to break any procedure that required 51 votes to break or pass. A tie-in here is that Democrats have chided that McConnell has held up and continues to tie up legislation but there is precedence as the The Hill stated, “House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told “Fox News Sunday” in June 2014 that then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was responsible for holding up 240 House bills. ‘The Senate has not moved anything. They never send something to the president’s desk. So, how do you even negotiate with the president if he doesn’t have the bill on his desk?’ he said at the time. The Hill further went on to explain in their 2016 article, “At the height of criticism from the House, The Washington Post broke down the number of House bills that have been stuck in the Senate for every Congress since 1975.”
One other reason related to the transformation of the courts is the SCOTUS seat of the Honorable Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. Should RBG leave the SCOTUS at this time, POTUS would have the inevitable duty to nominate a replacement. Trump does have a list of potential replacements. RBG has said she would not leave the SCOTUS while a Republican was in office. Thus far she has held up to her word, although her health is slowly waning and has given many of our brethren on the left many scares.
Since the Democrats could not get their way in the Senate of the United States of America, the Democrats chose to weaponize the MOAB of the Constitution of the United States, impeachment. This is the final rationale behind why Impeachment was passed in December 2019, after 78 days of procedural ramblings. Today (January 27, 2020) Ken Star took the Senate through what he called the “Age of Impeachment” and in his argument to the Senate members clearly stated that Impeachment had been weaponized. Now we know the rest of the story....
When you see the rationale behind why the Democrats hurriedly pushed impeachment in the House, you will then understand why Senators on the left are now calling for witnesses. This has not been lost on the likes of Schumer. The outcome of this impeachment is almost a forgone conclusion. All witnesses should have been declared in the discovery phase of Impeachment which is given by sole authority to the House of Representatives. When the House sends over the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, it is the recommendation upon the due diligence of the House of Rep’s Investigation. The Senate Trial is not a normal trial as we know trial’s to be held in the Judicial branch of the United States. Dues Process is still held up by all in this process. Here the House sends to the Senate their Prosecutors and the President sends their defense team. The two present their arguments for the Articles based on the findings from the House. Witnesses that are called during an impeachment trial are typically only the ones that were called during the Impeachment Inquiry which occurs in the House of Representatives. Calling forth new witnesses to which the House has not deposed onto the Senate floor will only extend this trial for an indeterminate period of time. What this accomplishes is not the removal of the President, rather this accomplishes the Senate from conducting their business of the day such as working on the list of confirming Judicial nominations.
The House did not mess up in their investigation. This was the plan all along. Bring forth enough witnesses to placate the Articles of Impeachment then to have the Senate call for new witnesses into the Impeachment Trial. Thus in the end the Senate would be prevented from conducting business such as Judicial Confirmations.
This leads up to why the insides of Bolton’s book was released on timely basis. If we look at how Kavanaugh’s Confirmation process and the leaks of information during that process we see a determined pattern of release of information. This same SOP is being conducted during the Impeachment Trial. The content of the leak only matters towards satisfying the outcome of what is considered the behavior needed by those needing the leak to happen. Once the behavior sought is then obtained, the content is usually a disappointment or a as someone aptly said, “a nothingburger”. Bolton is being used by the left and his anger towards his let go by Trump has made him a blind and willing participant in this scheme.
Some will say this is coup d’etat and in a sense it is a legal one but after an illegal attempt failed. The reason for this is can be seen in the previous thread in which the POTUS Trump is changing the makeup of the Judicial Branch. This is and was one of his platforms he ran upon. By changing the makeup of the Courts, the privileges once ensconced by the left seeking to create law through adjudication has been dealt a serious blow for at least a couple of decades. For example, the Ninth Circuit Court was a common court sough out by the Left to get a favorable opinion. Although the Court still has more left-leaning judges than right-leaning, the opportunity to get a right-leaning judge on the docket has exponentially increased.
So you can see here that removing Trump has far more implications as to the reasons why they want to remove him than just some snowflake has been triggered by a red hat or a MAGA slogan. The implications lie within their Constitutional and political makeup of this country. the left seeks to destroy the Constitution, and yet might accomplish this through the education system of our children with programs like Kommon Kore, safe spaces, lack of First Amendment protections afforded to these students, etc. I could go on and on, not because of right wing politics but because of Constitutional infringements that are being perpetrated daily by members on both sides of the aisle.
Something to think about, in the United States of America most people live in the culture of “I want it now or none at all” when it takes a series of steps to accomplish some goals. Research was done on how easy a negative thought was accepted and then how long it took to correct versus a negative one. A negative thought is 6 times more easy to 1) be believable and 2) be accepted than a positive one. It was 6 times harder to get rid of a negative than a positive one. This is why our culture is negative based or is called the Negative Nanny state.
Bulls#it. America is stronger than ever, thanks to President Trump, and as for Alinsky’s methods, Trump applies them for our side every day, and in virtually every tweet.
The author should give himself an uppercut for not knowing what he’s talking about.
There is no better example to explain the multiple hoaxes perpetrated against President Donald J. Trump than Alinsky Tactic #13: “pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”. Since his election in 2016, Trump has become the left’s favorite “target” simply because he loves our Constitution, understands it’s under attack, and wants to preserve it.
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They had already successfully used Alinsky tactics to get an ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia into the White House in violation of the Constitution.
The GOP went along with it because they had ineligible candidates they wanted to run, Jindal, Haley, Cruz, Rubio and George P. Bush.
President Trump has defeated Rule #13 by some miracle.
Chris Matthews long ago confirmed they play by Alinsky’s rules and Queen Hillary learned them first hand from the Satanic master.
I think this business of crying “Alinsky!” is stupid.
Some old dead commie wrote down a few common sense
principles that everyone already knows and now it’s
some kind of magic formula for leftists?
To the dump-a-craps, that’s not a ‘defect’ - it’s a ‘feature’
Yes the country is headed to the dissolution of our existing government but is our existing government what the founders had in mind? I encourage the overuse of government largess to hasten it’s dissolution with the thought that it is a 50/50 proposition that we either come out as a bigger nanny state such as the Bernites want or return to a state’s rights favoring limited constitutional federal government.
Bump
Interesting post;thread. Thanks.
2020 The election is a little over 280 days away.
https://www.270towin.com/2020-countdown-clock/
STOMP a ‘rat. DEPOPULATE a rino from the body politic.
READY - AIM - VOTE
TRIGGER the trigglypuff types.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3VhoKCIkM
Enjoy life
that’s their goal and always has been.
Extremely gullible people think there is something economists for generations have called the “free lunch”. There is no free lunch and the more people who think there is a free lunch, the more likely society will crumble.
These people also vote democrat.
JoMa