Posted on 01/20/2020 10:37:58 AM PST by DollyCali
POTUS and Liu He signing ladmark phase 1 trade deal between US & China ~~ 1/15/20
Pres Trump presented with LSU Team jerseys by QB Joe Burrow and the invites the team to Oval Office for photo session (1/17/20)
The impeachment maddness continues
POTUS stays focused and strong
Nancy & Company parade with new pens
Thanks to Lysie for her morning chow
and her hard work at the Legion!
Keep the Truth coming Mr. President
Keep on Tweeting!
No, I hadn’t heard about the organized massacre. I don’t know if it’s true, but Brennan is an evil man and I wouldn’t put anything past him.
Thank You for the Ping!
Yay Trump Rally Day!
I’ll be here! WOOHOO!
That thread needs a thread-reader app unroll!!
Good info.
I can’t believe the questions that are being (allowed to be) asked, by Roberts.
It’s like teed up softballs for Schitthead.
What a joke this is.
@RepMarkMeadows
· 12m
Adam Schiff didn't answer the question from Senator Graham and others just now.
Here's the answer:
There is FAR more evidence for opening a case against the Bidens involvement in Ukrainian corruption than there EVER was for investigating the Trump campaign in 2016
NIKK, thanks for the explanations on today’s Q drops.
What right did CJ Roberts have to refuse to read a question submitted by a Senator. Where did he get that authority?
Schitt is trying to have it both ways.....
Says he nor his staff had contact with the WB and then a little while latter he praised the WB for being so brave to contact his staff.
Liars have such a hard time keeping their stories straight.
Thanks!
I just got home and watching now!
That’s great, thanks for posting.
Jill Bidens Doctoral degree is in Education Leadership. She is not a psychologist. She has been an English teacher for many years.
@Shem_Infinite
Woah Elizabeth Warrens question says Americans have lost faith in our government and asks if the Chief Justice presiding over this trial that may not allow witnesses will cause them to lose faith in the Chief Justice and the Supreme court. Big mistake. Huge.
5:43 PM · Jan 30, 2020·Twitter for Android
Shem Horne
@Shem_Infinite
· 19m
Replying to @Shem_Infinite
Schiff knows how big of a blunder it was for Warren to call into question the Chief Justices character by forcing him to read that insulting question so he immediately says "No, I wouldn't say that." and starts filibustering about Yermak.
Shem Horne
@Shem_Infinite
· 18m
When you are begging the Chief Justice to intervene on witnesses, insulting and threatening him is a terrible idea. Elizabeth Warren is a disgrace and a moron. Yet another unforced error by the Democrats.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/01/the-role-of-the-chief-justice-in-an-impeachment-trial/
It is crucial to note why the chief justice appears only in presidential impeachment proceedings. The simple answer has to do with the often-forgotten constitutional power of the vice president to serve as president meaning presiding officer of the Senate. In any impeachment case other than that of the president, the vice president can preside, as Thomas Jefferson did in the very first impeachment, that of Senator William Blount in 1799, and as Aaron Burr later did in the 1805 trial of Justice Samuel Chase. However, the Framers recognized that it would be unseemly at best for the person who would assume the presidency in the event of conviction by the Senate to preside over the presidents trial. To prevent that obvious conflict of interest, they specified the chief justice as a stand-in presiding officer in presidential impeachment trials.
A good many discussions of the upcoming Senate proceeding have understandably, but incorrectly, inferred two things from the presence of a judge in the presiding officers seat: first, that having a judge preside implies that the process will be akin to a conventional judicial trial, and second, that the chief justices role will be akin to that of a judge in such a trial. Neither inference is supported by the constitutional text.
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Despite the formal powerlessness of the role, one could imagine a chief justice thrust into the presiding officer seat who wanted to make a principled statement about the constitutional merits of the case against the president, even if that statement flew in the face of the preferences of a senatorial majority. Such a chief justice might take every available opportunity to rule in favor of, for example, the issuance of subpoenas or the production of witnesses and documents by the president. It seems improbable that Roberts would take this course. Whatever his personal views about Trump, his most likely priority will be to avoid any appearance of partiality, which might imperil his own posture of judicial neutrality and with it the Supreme Courts institutional legitimacy.
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Happily for the chief justice, the Senate rules give him an easy way of avoiding any expression of view on any difficult issue. Whenever presented with a question on the admissibility of evidence, the presiding officer need not even make a provisional ruling but instead can immediately submit any such question to a vote of the Members of the Senate (Rule VII).
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Part of the article.
It should have one at any time. It was requested.
Thanks. You bet!
Wow!
She’s such an idiot!
Jay Seklow taking them to task again.
Thank you, Rusty.
Now a house rat says that using a foreign spy to write a dossier on a political opponent is a conspiracy and is not an impeachable offense because the dossier was purchased. WTF?
Jay is answering now. Saying non of it was NOT a conspiracy.
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