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To: EyesOfTX

She will not vote to remove Trump. Alaskans would never forgive her for that despite her family name.


5 posted on 12/26/2019 3:27:44 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
She will not vote to remove Trump. Alaskans would never forgive her for that despite her family name.
I have a modest suggestion: English and American tradition is for a “jury of peers” of the defendant. But - as the history of elections for POTUS confirms - senators are legislators, and as such are not peers of executives.

Only one senator (Warren G. Harding) has ever beaten a governor in a presidential election, and no one not a governor has ever defeated a sitting president’s reelection bid.

It would seem to follow that governors should be the “jury” for presidential impeachment trials. Perhaps switching completely to a jury of governors would be a bridge too far, but for sure governors are best suited to judge what is impeachable and what isn’t. Because they put their own performance on the line - impeachment of Bill Clinton would have looked different if his peers - the governors - stood up and either admitted that the charges against Clinton were things that they reserved the right to do themselves - or else to the contrary.

Seems like the governors would have held that the charged behavior was not what their own constituents would tolerate. In the present instance, IMHO the governors wouldn’t feel obliged to reject for themselves the right to appeal a legislature’s demand for personal information to the courts.


10 posted on 12/26/2019 4:44:38 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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