Posted on 02/08/2021 6:00:49 AM PST by Onthebrink
Over the last four years, we have seen an alarming trend of law professors and legal experts discarding constitutional and due process commitments to support theories for the prosecution or impeachment of Donald Trump or his family.
Legal experts who long defended criminal defense rights have suddenly become advocates of the most sweeping interpretations of criminal or constitutional provisions while discarding basic due process and fairness concerns. Even theories that have been clearly rejected by the Supreme Court have been claimed to be valid in columns. No principle seems inviolate when it stands in the way of a Trump prosecution.
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They must destroy the Constitution to save it.
A good chunk of the GOP Congress views itself as our aristocratic betters. That unearned hauteur is pretty much the reason for the deranged GOP Congressional response to the unarmed sit-in being distorted beyond all recognition into an armed insurrection with their collusion. In the eyes of our Vichy Republican lords and barons, MAGA demonstrators staging a sit-in committed lese majeste - a crime against their dignity as aristocrats. We need to replace these aristocrats with people who actually want to do what we want rather than what they want. They are hawking up loogies on us while telling us it’s raining.
Jonathan Turley. :)
Laws, we don’t need any stinking laws!
Donald J Trump is a Private Citizen, there is No Constitutional Basis for Impeaching a private citizen for anything.
WHY CAN’T TRUMP SUE THEM???
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority,
Sorry, that is just never going to happen no matter who is elected.
Anyone with enough arrogance to run for office is going to do what they want to do and just assume that it is what the voter wants.
You best bet is to pay close attention to what the politician says during the primary election campaign and judge what the candidate thinks on the issues.
Two things influence a politician. His personal thinking and ideology and the thinking of campaign doners (lobbyist).
The reality is that politicians for the most part are mercurial beast. You really never know where they are going to be when it is time for them to vote. The majority are going to vote the party line most of the time because they are following the leadership’s direction.
There are few that will buck leadership on principle. Most of those will be labeled oddballs or extremist in the press.
The DemonicRat Party shed itself of Core Principles under Clinton, and all principles under 0bama. This is just Monday, nothing to see here.
[Sorry, that is just never going to happen no matter who is elected.
Anyone with enough arrogance to run for office is going to do what they want to do and just assume that it is what the voter wants. ]
I see Trump as an indispensable figure for the GOP. He is the only man in the GOP who is prepared to follow rather than lead. The modern GOP is the party of elected aristocrats. They think they are elected to office to ram their policy preferences down their voters’ throats against their express wishes. Whereas Trump is the mirror image of the Democrats - he gives his voters what they want much as the Democrats give their voters what they want.
Republican voters’ relationship with their elected representatives should be like that between those voters and their building contractors. We should tell them what we want and they should produce results or get the hell out of the way. What they shouldn’t be telling us is that we’re racists for wanting to cut down on immigration or racists for saying that George Floyd had it coming. Trump truly is a breath of fresh air in that regard.
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The Senate is now set to spend yet another week focused on impeaching a private citizen from an office he no longer holds rather than trying to help the American people.
The Left doesn't know how to govern and is still focused on trying to blame Trump for everything.
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I agree but those that currently are leaders in the GOPe do not and ate filled with hate against the most successful GOP Presidential candidate since Reagan.
GOPe leaders like former Ohio Governor Kasich speak against Trump at every opportunity.
The GOPe leadership are Globalist and Freemarketers. They hate Trump for curbing illegal alien influx.
Kasich also hates Trump for beating him in the Presidential Primary even though he must realize that he would have lost the general. He could not have gendered the support from the non-aligned voters that Trump did. He is just too bland of a candidate.
People want a candidate that will fight for what they believe in. Kasich has proven as Ohio Governor that he does not believe in anything. The same goes for Romney and the other Republicans that lost to Trump.
Republican voters’ relationship with their elected representatives should be like that between those voters and their building contractors. We should tell them what we want and they should produce results or get the hell out of the way. What they shouldn’t be telling us is that we’re racists for wanting to cut down on immigration or racists for saying that George Floyd had it coming. Trump truly is a breath of fresh air in that regard.
Good in theory, but impossible in practice.
There are competing interest in the GOP. Such as the Globalist/Open Market GOP and the Populist/anti-illegal Immigration/Protectionist GOP.
The GOP Leadership is generally the Later. We here on FR are generally the former.
There is some real friction between the two factions and it hard to know who will win the day.
The GOPe side has the money and the Populist have the votes.
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