Posted on 02/15/2021 3:19:59 AM PST by USA Conservative
House impeachment managers argued Saturday, as throughout former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, that Congress is exempt from the Constitution.
Lead manager Rep. Raskin (D-MD) said that because this was not a criminal trial, the legal requirements for “incitement” did not apply, the right to due process did not apply, and even the cherished First Amendment did not apply. In effect, Raskin argued, Congress was exempt from following constitutional principles.
Last year, House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the same argument. Due process did not apply to the president in impeachment, he said, and therefore it did not matter that the president could not cross-examine witnesses, or call the so-called “whistleblower.” The House had clearly violated the president’s First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, but Schiff told the Senate that Trump should have been grateful for the few protections he had.
That is not how Congress used to behave, nor how Americans saw Congress — until recently.
Several decades ago, there was a heated debate about religious displays on public property, such as Nativity scenes at Christmas. Civil libertarians argued that such displays were a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Many Jewish leaders agreed, drawing on a long and painful history in which Jews had suffered persecution in countries with official state religions.
But not all Jewish leaders opposed Nativity displays. One who dissented was the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Orthodox Chabad movement, who encouraged Jews to light Menorahs on public property during Chanukah.
Schneerson also supported prayer in public schools, which many liberal Jewish leaders opposed. He believed that indifference to religion among the contemporary public was a bigger problem than old medieval religious prejudices.
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Her, they do believe they’re above the law. They just didn’t have quite the votes this time. If nobody was watching, the votes wouldn’t have mattered, and they would have done whatever they wanted. It’s what they do in the dark of night that we have to be worried about.
Wait for it, soon the votes to impeach will arrive in the dead of night.
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