Posted on 01/13/2021 10:46:50 AM PST by Onthebrink
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell will not consent to reconvening the Senate on Friday under emergency authorities, delaying the start of President Trump's likely impeachment trial until Jan. 19 at the earliest, McConnell's team confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: If the House votes to impeach Trump for incitement of the Capitol riot on Wednesday, as is expected, the trial will likely not take place until after President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
It takes 67 Yea’s.
Every single republican supporting impeachment in any manner needs to be voted out at first opportunity. There needs to be a list of all these cowards.
Whoa there. Easy with the caps, cowboy.
The GOP acquired and improved their legislative majorities in a majority of the 50 states, including the key battleground states that allowed fraud.
They won on Trump’s coattails, and many of these young republicans actually have fire in their bellies.
Save the caps key for 2022.
McConnell will be holding the impeachment trial after Trump leaves office.
I am waiting to see if Trump will release documents before Biden is sworn in. I also want to see who else he pardons.
A trial in the senate will have witnesses and evidence. As we have seen over the last two months Democrats are violently opposed to the existence of evidence that opposes them, or the record that any such evidence existed at all. They do not want Steven Sund or Paul Irving anywhere near a microphone on CSPAN.
How can you convict and evict from office someone who has already left office? 2/3 vote or no 2/3 vote.
And another thing: If this farce takes place after Jan. 20th, and it well might, Chief Justice Roberts will preside. His squirming answer from the floor about whether this would be a legal procedure under the Constitution will be, um, interesting.
“even make his base desert him, if they were true.”
No supporter will believe any of it after all the falsehoods that have been pushed.
Pat Buchanon had a essay about a week ago on how Goldwater’s ideas re-arose after his drumming. I’ve yet to get a handle on how that happens for us, but expect it to.
If impeachment is a bar to further political office, how did Alcee Hastings get elected to the House of Representatives after being impeached? Did I miss the clause in the Constitution that says the bar only applies to Republicans ?
it is aseperate vote
I hadn’t thought of that idiot coward Roberts having to run the “trial” farce, but it fits for that idiot to be in charge of a farce trial.
He can be impeached but not convicted, right?
This ridiculous exercise by the democrat socialists reminds me of this historical atrocity :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_execution
I hope Trump never runs again, but I hope he holds rally’s for candidates he supports. We need to toss some people out and Trump has the charisma to help us do it.
Separate from what ?
Blah, blah, blah. This is all white noise.
the impeachment
Voting to prevent someone from running for Office is a separate Vote after the Senate Votes to Impeach.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Hastings.htm
alcee hastings impeachment n
did not vote on future disqualification
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Vote for Removal and/or Disqualification:
No separate vote was taken. Having found Hastings guilty on 8 of the 17 articles of impeachment, the president pro tempore ordered him removed from office. He was not disqualified for future office.
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