Posted on 09/26/2019 10:52:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
FROM THE OP -ED BY NEAL KATYAL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
That’s why our founders wrote the impeachment clause to be broader than criminal activity. Many crimes are not impeachable (jaywalking, for example). Other activity isn’t necessarily criminal but is obviously a basis for impeachment (not defending the United States against a foreign attack).
For our founders, the touchstone of presidential unfitness to serve was always abuse of the public trust. They viewed the president as having a fiduciary obligation to the American people — just like trustees — and if the president violated that duty, he should be impeached. The first Congress discussed as one of the obvious bases for impeachment the possibility that a president dismissed “meritorious officers.” Or as Charles Black, the greatest scholar of impeachment, once reasoned, if the president announced a policy that he would give pardons to every police officer who killed someone in Washington, D.C., that wouldn’t be criminal but would be obviously impeachable.
Mr. Trump’s administration tried to hide the full whistle-blower complaint by attempting an end-around a federal law that requires that the full report be sent to Congress. His own Justice Department (once again) is working hard to clear him of wrongdoing. This time, the president’s appointees in that department did not even have the veneer of first allowing a special counsel investigation to proceed before trying to undermine its conclusions; they tried to stop the investigation before it even began.
Communism coup
President Trump’s only “crime” is that he was elected president according to the rules set for the the Constitution of the United Stats that established this nation as a constitutional republic. And that the person he defeated was Hildabeast.
Suddenly the commie left is concerned with our founders? Thought they were just a bunch of racist slaveholders.
Democrats and the left are what is.
If you aren’t what is, you are a criminal.
he doesn’t archive his conversations with other leaders the way the Democrats want
Impeach!
I heard Trump’s housekeeper told her son who told his neighbor who told her hairstylist that he jaywalked once in 1974. We’ve got him now!
you nailed it...
unfolding before our eyes.
“NY Times Op Ed: Trump Doesn’t Need To Commit A Crime To Be Kicked Out Of Office”
We’ll remember this if a Democrat ever gets elected again.
Maybe the loser kids of former elites at the New York Times should consider the possibility that THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE A RIGHT TO ELECT THEIR OWN LEADERS... AND TO GET RID OF THEM IF THEY WANT TO...
RE: Suddenly the commie left is concerned with our founders?
Yes, they will refer to them when it suits their purpose.
Heck, they will even say that Jesus Christ and the Bible are on their side if it suits them ( I’m looking at you, Mr. Gay Mayor of South Bend, Indiana ).
Abuse of the “public trust”?
Then the Democrat Congress should be impeached, cuz they clearly fit that definition
She’s right!
Overturning an election they lost is a GREAT REASON to impeach someone. :)
[[the touchstone of presidential unfitness to serve was always abuse of the public trust]]
Which public? The Democrats only? Who gets to decide who’s trust ‘has been betrayed’? He hasn’t betrayed my trust- and i would wager the majority of Americans feel that way
Well, in that case, we are talking every President since Ronald Reagan EXCEPT Trump. Of those, Trump is the ONLY one who governed for the benefit of the people and not for the benefit the elites, globalists or deep state.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.--Samuel Johnson
exactly, we can’t trust them to defend our constitution, our religious rights, our moralities- they are the ones who have betrayed our Country’s trust
For our founders, the touchstone of presidential unfitness to serve was always abuse of the public trust.
All bracnhes operate under that, Congress and the Courts just as much as the executive.
And all three branches are abusing the public trust. The FBI and IC, in cahoots with foreign governments, perpetrated the Russia hoax to cause public havoc. Congress participated in that too.
Same this time, just different players. Whistleblower framwork is strecthed out of shape (as was SC regulation in the Russia hoax) by playes in the executive branch, working cahoots with Congress to take out the president.
The instutitions have worn out thir value, and are now literally a detriment to the public well being. Abuse of trust? You bet.
According to second hand hearsay from a partisan hack.
Funny, I seem to remember the Dems during the Clinton impeachment complaining that Bill really didn’t commit any crime.
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