Posted on 11/02/2019 4:14:21 PM PDT by xzins
HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi has now formally stamped an institutional imprimatur on the continued House harassment intended to punish and harm President Donald Trump.
Following another deep-state assault against Trump, six House committees are operating under Speaker Pelosi’s recycled 2016 “resistance” umbrella for impeachment inquiries.
Speaker Pelosi needs to be reminded that the U.S. Constitution’s Article II, Section 4 has an exacting “high crimes” evidence standard for a valid House impeachment.
President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong in his telephone call with the Ukrainian leader.
Just as the Mueller investigation yielded no collusion and no obstruction, here there is no abuse of power or cover-up.
There is no quid, no pro, and no quo.
The media reports that this latest deep-state move against Trump comes from a CIA officer who was granted high-level security access in the White House.
However, the federal whistleblower statute’s protection is not applicable to illegal leaks of presidential communication by an intelligence official. Any reasoned legal analysis shows the CIA officer is not a whistleblower.
Regardless, the so-called “whistleblower complaint” evidences no wrongdoing by Trump. But its exacting legal form does indicate a coordinated intelligence operation against the 45th president.
Any collusion to mask the leak as a “whistleblower complaint” would itself be a gross betray of trust. And the so-called White House “cover up” was an appropriate attempt to plug and prevent illegal leaks.
The full House needs to be reminded that the U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids legislative harassment—that is, punishment that causes direct harm or even reputational harm—such as those of a fake, partisan impeachment.
Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states that “[n]o bill of attainder…shall be passed.”
The House may not punish or harm any individual, including Donald John Trump.
Whether using a de facto (by fact) or de jure (by law) paradigm, the House’s punitive harassment, and the evolving fake impeachment against Trump, should be analyzed as an attainder.
Like attainders of old, the only purpose of the House’s fake impeachment of Trump, without any credible evidence of a high crime and without any possible chance of Senate conviction, is to punish, taint, and stain the president.
English jurist William Blackstone described “attainder” as any legislative harm, taint, stains, or blackening.
According to Blackstone, the prohibited “attintus” may come in any form or fashion. The attainder may constitute an actual penalty or it may be purposed solely to damage a targeted individual’s reputation and credibility.
The U.S. Constitution’s attainder restriction was a disruptive 18th century human rights advancement.
Harvard Law professor Zechariah Chaffee Jr. described the legislative punishment ban as “one of the three most important human rights” in the U.S. Constitution’s 1787 main (unamended) text.
The Constitution’s textual prohibition against attainder provides a solid, human-rights argument against the House moving forward with its fake impeachment of our duly elected president.
Thank God I am not the only one who believes that President Trump is a victim.
A VICTIM OF HARASSMENT.
It is so obvious. Every day they come up with a new accusation.
This has got to stop and our beloved Country and Constitution were made for times like this.
I am going to relish the time when justice comes to those who have been attacking ONE MAN, to the disgrace of a major political party both standing by and actively participating.
Swamp was never drained. Even if President Trump is re-elected,I doubt much will change. It’s just the new normal. In reality,we probably need a bloody revolution. The left wants it;keep the powder dry because the decision will be by others.
Ahh legal stuff. Yeah, the House doesn’t do that.
Oh please, the Democrats routinely wipe their festering bottoms with the Constitution. When is our side going to realize that the Democrats are nothing but lawless creeps that couldn't give a rat's behind about laws or regulations?
Dems are pulling this crap to cover their own tails and for no real other reason. If the truth ever had a chance to get out from the smoke a lot of the dems would be hanging from lampposts or in Gitmo.
bumpty bumpty bump
I’m curious if the Supreme Court could overturn an impeachment conviction if they found it didn’t meet the requirements of the Constitution.
Good question. I’ve also wondered if the presiding judge, the chief justice, could just throw the case out.
Well, is there really a need for a Senate trial?
If McConnell makes a presentation of a vote on a Senate committee resolution declaring the House impeachment indictment to be an actual bill of attainder. He then can throw out the House case in summary judgement
As to the Nixon impeachment, you may be referring to the 'endeavoring to use the IRS" charge, written by a young and still corrupt Hillary Rodham. Keep in mind, the meaning of endeavoring: He didn't really do it, but he wanted to and asked about it.
Interesting. The Constitution makes no such distinction, does it? It just says all ex post facto laws.
I think anyone who is HARASSED like this should be able to seek relief through the courts.
I hope President Trump does that exactly.
I agree with you. With zero high crimes and accompanying misdemeanors, such an impeachment would be a bill of attainder which has the sole purpose of tainting the president. McConnell could declare it illegal and throw it out.
Analysis please
This we know.
Why would the now radicalized Democratic Party care?
Heh...
Trump needs to stump for this guy bigly time.
Good one to replace Sen. Mark Warner.
...the open borders policy and its sequelae where illegal invaders from other countries come here, work and practice professionally, get elected to office, and whose felony entries are ignored by the millions...We have a lot of work to do.As in all these things, the problem with the country is not
the law or the Constitution, but the total lack of law enforcement.
And beneath that, and perhaps the graver lesion, is the lack of concern among everyone that this situation is fatal.
If we allow the lawless Democrats to act with impunity, then, the Unites States eventually falls apart.
My thoughts exactly. If Pelosi’s stated net worth is only $100 million, I think there's a big bank account offshore somewhere. And why is it that she can get every Democrat to vote with her on blatantly ridiculous measures unless her party members are compelled in some way to back her??
It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oyez it does.
The Senate can declare the Articles of Impeachment sent to them by the House of Representatives a bill of attainder
prohibited by Article 1 clause 9 of the constitution.
Game over.
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