Posted on 12/20/2019 9:26:07 AM PST by powermill
Fox & Friends rejoiced on Friday morning over an op-ed arguing that President Donald Trump is not technically impeached until Congress sends over its articles to the Senate.
“One of the Democrats’ witnesses was Noah Feldman, a law scholar,” Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy said, in a segment. “As it turns out he says that the president of the United States right now has not been impeached.”
“Oops!” noted guest host Katie Pavlich.
Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School who testified as a witness for Democrats in the House impeachment hearings, wrote in a piece for Bloomberg that, “If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.”
“So there you’ve got the word from a Constitutional scholar, who appeared on behalf of the Democrats,” Doocy exclaimed, “until they hit send, he’s not impeached!”
“Well that’s true,” guest host Pete Hegseth said. “Until you send your term paper in, you haven’t sent it into the professor. So the banner right here should read ‘Trump actually not impeached,” Hegseth added, gesturing at the lower third.
Pavlich agreed. “So everyone who has been saying there is an asterisk next to his presidency, even celebrating his impeachment, including Nancy Pelosi.” Pavlich touted Feldman’s bona fides as an “expert.”
“You and Noah have blown my mind,” Hegseth said to Doocy. “I thought it was over.”
“It’s great,” Doocy said of Feldman’s piece.
As Feldman writes, “The Constitution doesn’t say how fast the articles must go to the Senate."
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Put Nazi Pelosi on the spot.
File a Writ of Mandamus ordering her to do her job.
If she doesn’t, declare it null and void.
Impeachment with an asterisk is still an impeachment.
Is ther some statutory limitation to submission of the impeachment bill?
My guess is that they won’t submit it, the Senate never sees it.
Then they focus on retaining the house for 4 years via Soros campaigns support for individual candidates and vote fraud.
Trump will get his votes but he wont have the house.
Democrat candidates have lost ground every day with the voters everyday this has gone on.
Created record fund raising month after month for Trump and the GOP off this sham impeachment
Failed to make the case to get even 1 Never Trumper GOP retiring Congress critter to vote for her
Delivered the only purely partisan impeachment in history
After doing enormous damage to her party’s election chances in 2020 sends the House home without finalizing the Impeachment.
Did enormous damage to her party and failed to actually complete the impeachment. Pretty hard to figure how Nancy could of screwed this up worse.
that’s correct. charges aren’t official or effective until they are brought and filed to the tribunal. any prosecutor can allege any allegations it wishes (though it is very bad form legally).....but there are no charges until they are brought to, filed with the tribunal
any law student knows this
if nancy pelousy doesn’t know this, her expert legal advisors certainly DO (and she has read it already many times by outside legal scholars on the internet)
so she is NOT bringing charges .. why? because she KNOWS they are constitutionally ridiculous, totally inadequate at meeting legal muster..... and even if accepted by the Senate they could never result in a removal of a president, any president
she figures she has politically milked her fake impeachment circus as far as she can get away with without being totally slapped down in public by the Senate (if she actually filed her charges )
so, she will keep issuing press releases about how unfair things are
that’s all she’s got left to milk politically, so she will do it... but obviously its gotten her nowhere with the voters of America ... ,most voters can see what a phony charade she’s been running, if only from the total and complete lack of any evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever........and from the patently vacuous and insufficient nature of the charges
One wonders if Pelosi has decided to simply let “impeachment” die a quiet death.
She hasn’t acted on it. She knows the Senate will shut it down anyway and give Republicans the chance to give their talking points. So if the’s going to kill it, now is the time - Christmas is coming, Americans will be pre-occupied. I expect the MSM will be given their marching orders to ignore the subject entirely.
someone was on Fr yesterday trying to point out that yes, he has been impeached- but No- he hasn’t been tried for it yet- claiming the house has sole authority to impeach or not- and that impeachment doesn’t mean guilt -
I think basically an impeachment is just a ‘recommendation that the person needs to be tried’, and the actual impeachment is rather meaningless because it could be so biased, so riddled with problems, that the person being impeached could be found not guilty- and people can be falsely impeached only to later be exonerated- Impeachment is worthless without conviction EXCEPT in that it unfairly destroys a person politically for very partisan political purposes when the4 accused is innocent- impeachment has now been weaponized by the left-
Shampeachment!
Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, published an opinion piece in Bloomberg on Thursday arguing against the House Democrats withholding the articles of impeachment, thus preventing the Senate from holding a trial.
"Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution:
The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment.
The Senate must actually hold a trial," he argues. "If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president.
If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
PS: Please check my tagline.
No documents send to the senate for trial, no impeachment!!
its a real genuine christmas miracle in Washington dc!
/sarc
The Democrats that won in Trump districts who voted for impeachment can thank Nanzi for
forcing them to walk the plank and plunging them into the political abyss for early termination.
It took Nanzi’s Bigtime Bribery to get their votes for impeachment.......
<><> Nanzi $$PAC promised them millions in campaign ads,
<><> basking in the spotlight knowing they took down a president;
<><> promised soaring approval numbers for voting her way;
<><> accompanying Nanzi on her tax-paid royal excursions around the world.
REALITY CHECK The numbers dont look good for the freshmen....
support for impeachment is dwindling while Trump’s approval numbers increase.
Nancy has maneuvered between her socialists and the stupidity of their demands and not impeaching Trump. She can say to the socialists they impeached Trump and she can say to the world they didn’t impeach Trump. But it is all too stupid by half. She should be happy she can talk without stammering most of the time, and she should be happy that she’ll lose her wackadoddle hammer by next year. It couldn’t be better for Nancy for once her wackadoddle hammer is gone, the socialist will eat her up... without a burp in between.
What an educated moron idiocy from these professors at Harvard convincing Pelosi to sit on th articles. What blithering nonsense. Impeachment is immediate because the President just shot someone off the balcony of the Whitehouse and there is no waiting for trial for removal. If you have to impeach it is for an immediate defined and witnessed crime and demands immediate removal, OTHERWISE IT IS JUST PURE POLITICAL BULLSHIT FOR SHOW!!!!!!!
The Sixth Amendment doesn’t say how long a “speedy trial” is either
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