Posted on 06/08/2019 6:09:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump could be impeached in the House but not tried in the Senate for the sole purpose of presidential censure, Harvard professor of constitutional law Laurence Tribe tells AM JOY with Joy Reid.
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Rubbish. He can only be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
The Founders knew how easily factions would want to destroy a president, so they made it hard.
“...........or the sole purpose of presidential censure,...”
The same damned question comes to mind as when they threaten “Impeachment”, for what!?
A pointless impeachment worked out so well for the Republicans in ‘98.
Mueller wanted to interview Trump just in order to spring a perjury trap. That Trump refused to play along is probably in Mueller's mind a case of obstruction.
Censure has apparently been voted once before against a President--against Andrew Jackson, who served out 8 years and was succeeded by his Vice President, Martin van Buren. So if Trump is censured does he replace Jackson on the $20 bill?
It’s Laurence Tribe, who is to law what Paul Krugman is to economics!
The Founders made impeachment hard. Requires both Houses of the Congress and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who is not just a potted plant when he presides over the Trial in the Senate. They didn’t envision political parties, but they did understand that partisan factions could take control of parts of the government. They wanted to ensure that such factions couldn’t take the entire country in a direction that was not supported by the people.
Tribe is an idiot
That was 1996
Tribe is a paid pimp of the Democrats ... remember his sterling pronouncements during the 2000 Florida recount, recount, recount fiasco?
> A pointless impeachment worked out so well for the Republicans in ‘98. <
If I recall correctly, GOP moderates in Congress wanted to censure Clinton. That would have passed in both houses. And it would have given Clinton a real black eye. Some Democrats might have even voted for it.
But no. GOP hardliners went for all or nothing. And they got nothing.
Very clearly
Because people like Trent Lott betrayed them.
I don’t believe they got “nothing.” Al Gore didn’t get elected in 2000, and Hillary didn’t get elected in 2016. I think both of those close elections can be chalked up to “Clinton Fatigue.”
As LR points out, they weren’t going to get 67 votes in the Senate to convict. It looks like only a majority in each house is necessary to censure, which was much more doable.
I thought I was the only Republican on earth who decried that strategically idiotic move, which has only come back on them. His private sins were none of our business. So they went looking for something else to hang it on. Meanwhile, all the testimony about his "private" acts got into the newspapers, and the rate of oral sex and STDs among teenagers went up. Thanks, Stupid Party.
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