Posted on 06/08/2017 5:52:41 AM PDT by blam
Well said and bears repeating. SoI did .
Comey doesn't want a president to exercise his constitutional authority by directing the FBI. Comey wants the FBI to be independent of the president.
So then who would the FBI director answer to? Comey admitted today that that he based his decisions about the Hillary "matter" on how the (foreign controlled) press would react. That's the answer, and it's how DC works.
I’ve asked a few libs, what high crimes were committed and what evidence to you have to prove it when they talk impeachment. I usually get called a bigot and they storm off.
They don’t know one thing about the real constitution and don’t care what it says. They think anything of which they don’t approve is unconstitutional and anything they like is well within the limits of the constitution. In other words they don’t really think at all, they only “feeeel”.
You can impeach for anything. It’s a political act.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Legislators understand what that means. Trying to apply "did not like what he did" to that litmus is a slippery slope even the Democrats are shying away from.
High misdemeanors could mean farting in public. There is literally no threshold beyond the political for the act of impeachment.
“30 or 40 years from now, one or two liberals might entertain the thought that Donald Trump was actually a legitimate President of the United States.”
What if all of the surviving liberals are in their Mother’s basements or in Canada, will anyone pay attention to their muttering?
No, no it couldn't.
There is literally no threshold beyond the political for the act of impeachment.
There is, it was established roughly 1388.
That 1388 carries no legal weight. The constitution does not define high crimes and misdemeanors. They may look to England circa 1388 and common law, but it carries no legal weight at all. Anything that a simple majority of the house and 2/3 of the Senate agrees was wrong... works fine.
And it is not subject to Supreme court review.
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