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Green files articles of impeachment against Trump, setting up floor vote
Hill via MSN ^ | 7-16-2019 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 07/16/2019 5:30:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday under a process that will force a House floor vote by the end of this week.

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Green introduced his articles of impeachment after the House passed a resolution largely along party lines condemning Trump for suggesting that four progressive freshman congresswomen of color - Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) - "go back" to their countries.

Green said that the House should go beyond condemning Trump and move to remove him from office.

It will be the third impeachment floor vote forced by Green in the last two years, but the first since Democrats took control of the House.

Green previously forced procedural votes on articles of impeachment against Trump in December 2017 and January 2018. Both efforts drew the support of about 60 House Democrats.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 116th; algreen; braking; civilwar; coup; dopeydems; fraudsquad; green; harambegreen; house; impeach; impeachment; justinamash; nancypelosi; radicalleft; tomsteyer; trump
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Once the articles of impeachment are drafted, the 40 members on the House Judiciary Committee voted over whether bring them to the full House of Representatives.

A simple majority vote is needed, in this case, which means 21 congresspeople voting yay are needed in this phase.

HOUSE VOTE: 218

Once the articles make it out of the judiciary committee, the 435 members of the House of Representatives debate the merits of the articles of impeachment.

In this phase, a simple majority is needed again to continue the impeachment process, which means 218 representatives would have to vote yay in order to confirm impeachment.

SENATE TRIAL: 67 to remove from office


21 posted on 07/16/2019 5:43:58 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Tallguy

“Given Romney, Murkowski & Collins sitting over there in the Senate all spinless and such, this could be very close.”

Still leaves the Dems 17 short in the Senate. As to those three, as far as I know, Collins wants to get re-elected in 2020 and has to know that she cannot win without Trump supporters, so I don’t see voting for removal until some REAL evidence surfaces. The other 2 - who knows and who cares.


22 posted on 07/16/2019 5:44:38 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: From The Deer Stand

Trump said they could go if they don’t care for this country. The oath of office includes to defend against domestic enemies. That would be people that support illegal entry. That would be people that support countries that want the demise of our country. That would be people that want the demise of the presidency. His reproach to the proponents of lawlessness is part of oath of office! Maybe they had their fingers crossed behind their backs when they took the oath.


23 posted on 07/16/2019 5:45:20 PM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: tcrlaf

Green is a pea brain that is unable to entertain but one thought and since President Trump was elected that thought has been impeachment.


24 posted on 07/16/2019 5:45:28 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: tcrlaf
The dangerous times are getting closer. The leaders in the party have lost control to the crazies. The crazies are not going to get their way, they may be nutty enough now to actually be able to impeach Trump for nothing but Americans will react with horror that this even came up and Trump is not getting removed by the Senate. Then the dems will not just shrink away. They will start justifying serious escalation. They will know they can't try again. And they'll see that America is not with them. That's when they will truly snap.

They will start whispering "We tried doing this the civil way, working in the system. That orange man who literally stole the office he is soiling is literally a Nazi running literal concentration camps and we can't remove that literal Hitler. The constitution only exists to protect Nazis. And the klan. They use it to keep us down. We have no choice, it all has to be burned down. Sure, some people will get hurt but Jefferson himself said that the tree of liberty needs to be watered by the blood of tyrants. Well that's where we are."

Wait and see, they want blood and as soon as they think they have enough crazies triggered enough to join them they will go get blood.

25 posted on 07/16/2019 5:45:31 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: tcrlaf

Why is Maxine so quiet ,did she do something bad and is in hiding ,LOL


26 posted on 07/16/2019 5:45:40 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Queen Sheila Jackson Lee is wondering where all of her tv camera closeups went.


27 posted on 07/16/2019 5:46:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Paladin2
Is this a Green New Deal?

I needed a good laugh after today. You da man,Paladin2.

28 posted on 07/16/2019 5:47:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Democrats are a naked threat to democracy by refusing to accept the results of the 2016 or 2020 election.

AOC said they have to impeach Trump or he could win again.


29 posted on 07/16/2019 5:48:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: pepsi_junkie

God help us.


30 posted on 07/16/2019 5:49:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: tcrlaf

This is good.

Let them vote.


31 posted on 07/16/2019 5:51:57 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Paladin2

LOL!!! Brilliant. :D


32 posted on 07/16/2019 5:52:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: tcrlaf
I have said for three years that the closer we get to jailing the Dem leadership for their crimes, the crazier and more violent they will get. YOU ARE HERE...

AMEN! You have spoken the TRUTH.

33 posted on 07/16/2019 5:55:25 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

It takes 67 votes or 2/3 of the Senate to remove.


34 posted on 07/16/2019 6:00:07 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Paladin2

Heh good one

It’s an Al Green New Deal

Also called “coup attempt”.


35 posted on 07/16/2019 6:00:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: morphing libertarian
the 435 members of the House of Representatives debate the merits of the articles of impeachment.

A D by the name means vote YES, unless they realize that they will end up with egg (or worse) on their faces.

36 posted on 07/16/2019 6:00:59 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: SaveFerris

I always liked Al Green when I heard his music on the radio...


37 posted on 07/16/2019 6:02:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tcrlaf

If this passes the house, the Senate should simply ignore and state publicly that since the articles do not site specific crimes, it is not an “impeachment” and therefore the Senate is under no obligation to even recognize the action by the House.

... Dem heads would be exploding like popcorn.


39 posted on 07/16/2019 6:04:38 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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To: mass55th
"Alley Oop just cain’t hep hisself. "

LOL . . . YOU NAILED IT DEAD CENTER!!!
40 posted on 07/16/2019 6:08:41 PM PDT by rhubarbk (MAGA/KAG . . . Trump 2020!!!)
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