Senate votes Trump impeachment trial is constitutional

foxnews.com ^ | Feb. 9, 2021 | By Marisa Schultz

[PROCON]

The Senate voted Tuesday to move ahead with the unprecedented impeachment trial of former President Trump after listening to hours of arguments on whether it is constitutional to try a president who is already out of office.

The vote was 56-44.

Trump's legal team said the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and can't face removal, which is the standard judgment of an impeachment conviction.

[Reily]

10 more :
(2/3) * 100 = 66 (or 67 rounding up ! Which means 11 more)

[Sicon]

The Constitution is dead, as is this country, unless something miraculous happens soon.

[Zhang Fei]

[I will NEVER vote in another election, EVER. Why prolong the inevitable?]

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When the Red Terror comes to pass, do you want to be buried in a mass grave, or would you prefer mass cremation?

[Deo volente]

These senators could live to be 110 and Donald Trump will still be inhabiting their heads as they pass from this world.

It’s truly mass insanity, and pure hatred. I wonder if the whole lot of them have been hypnotized or something. I can hardly believe what I’m witnessing.

[Freedom56v2]

Are you sure?
Supremes?

[Retrofitted]

Idiots just made impeachment a plank on the platform now. “If you elect me, I’ll immediately move to impeach...” is going to be a thing.

[browniexyz]

Sasse thinks he’s the next Mitt Romney... and that it’s Romney/Sasse 2024.

[ealgeone]

They’re still in business??

[Pilgrim's Progress]

They had a D.O.A. come in at the hospital, but no worries - the senate voted that the corpse is still alive. Now it is doing fine, but its still dead.

[Vigilanteman]

Where is Bill Cassidy from? I will cut Susan Collins a little slack given her constituency. The others, not so much?

[krug]

I’ve said this right after they stole it. I’ll never vote again. And no, I never will. They should have burned the whole place down.

[depressed in 06]

I’m guessing, somebody, wants see if the Senate can do more than one thing at a time?

[cld51860]

FARCE.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yep, not only have they removed our right to fair elections, they also now are dictating to us who can and cannot run for office. To me, it’s not so much to get revenge against Trump, but to warn us. It’s tyranny.

[monkeyshine]

44 think it is unconstitutional. That’s far short of the 2/3rd requirement to “convict” and it would be unconscionable that they would later vote for a matter they believe to be illegal.

But the show must go on!

[RoseofTexas]

Unfortunately ALL the lawyers have been warned NOT to defend Trump..his best lawyer cowered under the pressure from the lawyes institute threatening to punish them. It's up to us ..75 million, if there are still 75 million on his side! People are fickled and scared to fight this evil government..if we don't they won't hesitate for one minute to come after us. If they can come after an ex-president think about how absolutely incredibly vicious they are and will stop at nothing to hunt us down! All they need to do is MAKE UP SOME CONSTITUTIONAL LAW and vote on it giving the middle finger to the Supreme Court and lower courts along with A HUGE FU TO THE US CONSTITUTION!!!

[ifinnegan]

Forget these six.

There are many more illegitimate Senators. They are all illegitimate, although the following 8 can be argued to be legitimate.

Cruz, R-Texas
Hawley, R-Mo.
Hyde-Smith, R-Miss
Kennedy, R-Lou
Lummis, R-Wyo
Marshall, R-Kan
Tuberville, R-Ala
Scott, R-Fla

[OldGoatCPO]

A couple of them will vote against impeachment and later say, “I believed it was constitutional but Trump was not guilty of an impeachable offense. So I voted for the trial but not impeachment.” I was for it before I was against it. Hopefully Cassidy’s voters are not as stupid as he thinks they are.

[BiglyCommentary]

It can be 66.7 Senators, since Blumenthal from Connecticut is a walking cadaver and his vote counts as .7

[xzins]

Agree 100%

I sent Portman a letter yesterday.