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Posted on 10/08/2019 8:25:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Spakovsky & Jipping: Pelosi hasn't really started the impeachment process – She needs to do it or give up
Does an impeachment inquiry require a vote of the full House of Representatives? President Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., maintain that it does. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claims that it doesn’t.
Pelosi is correct that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly require it. It simply gives the House the “sole Power of Impeachment.” But the gravity of even considering impeachment, fundamental principles of fair and impartial justice, and preserving our republican form of government, do require it.
Pelosi alone announced on Sept. 25 that the House was opening an impeachment inquiry, directing six different committees to investigate the president. This is radically different, and much more partisan, than how this serious step was taken in the past.
In 1974, like today, a Republican was in the White House and Democrats controlled the House. On Feb. 6, the full House voted 410-4 to authorize an impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon by the Judiciary Committee. Similarly, on Oct. 8, 1998, the full House voted 258-176 for the Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment investigation of President Clinton.
Pelosi’s claim that there is no “House precedent that the whole House vote before proceeding with an impeachment inquiry,” therefore, is simply false.
Other than declaring war, there is no more serious undertaking by the House of Representatives in our constitutional republic. Why? Because through impeachment, the House is charging a president with misconduct so serious that he should immediately be removed from office. In other words, the House is effectively seeking to neutralize the choice – and the votes – of the American electorate.
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Contrary to her belief, she is NOT the House.
It simply makes sense: while the House has subpoena powers, a subpoena must have an articulable official action which it serves; House members can’t just demand information without cause. There is no legally articulable action in this case.
Pelosi isn’t “The House”, unless we have a One Party System like China.
She is a Congressional Representative who oversees the majority Democrat Caucus which Voted her the Speakership.
The Constitution was written by dead white male slaveholders.
Democrats need not pay any attention to them!
........”But the gravity of even considering impeachment, fundamental principles of fair and impartial justice, and preserving our republican form of government, do require it.”
Pelosi, and the Democrats don’t care one whit about that!
You’re exactly right.
Of course that doesn’t fit Pelosi’s or the Democrats agenda, they want it both ways.
Impeachment for what? This is lose-lose for the Dems.
Our domestic enemies want “History” make this “cloud of impeachment” associated with our President.
Does Trump have a Media-given “official” nickname yet?
BJ Clinton is known as the “comeback kid”.
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Hmm, not specifically by the media.
Here’s what our domestic enemies at Wikipedia say:
Full name: Donald John Trump
The Donald[127] since his first wife Ivana Trump referred to him as such in a 1989 Spy magazine cover story.[127][128]
45, the 45,[129] and similar names, referencing his being the 45th president, his penchant for wearing monogrammed “45” apparel.[130]
Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief,[131][132][133][134] for his penchant of promoting conspiracy theories.
President Snowflake and Snowflake-in-Chief[135][136][137][138] using the term “Snowflake”, for his poor reactions to criticism, particularly on Twitter and regarding the Mueller probe and related investigations.
No one has ever been allowed and ENCOURAGED to trash our President like this — until now.
BJ Clinton is known as the “comeback kid”.
is the punctuation and spelling correct on this?
“She needs to do it or...”
...get off the pot.
Other people are waiting and holding it, you know.
The House is the entirety of the House, not just the DemocRATs.
Pelosi does not represent the American people, she only represents the people of the sh*tty city on the hill (San Francisco)
She doesn’t get to make that decision.
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