“IMO, an immigration amnesty for 10m illegals qualifies as a felony. What if he issued an executive order making the entire population of Pakistan US citizens? Would that qualify?” — Zhang Fei
— You are absolutely right, and something incredible is on the wings, something much greater than impeachment. The more this mess rots and stinks, the sooner our nation will be ready for a common sense counterrevolution.
A ‘high crime and misdemeanor’ is NOT clearly defined. Dereliction of duty and moral turpitude are both ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’. Executive fiat that violates the balance of powers is also a ‘high crime and misdemeanor’. Nor do they need to be proved. The APPEARANCE of dereliction of duty is a high crime and misdemeanor. Nothing need be proved.
Professor McDonald explained this with great detail during the Clinton impeachment hearing, and Ann Coulter [former clerk to the Supreme Court] wrote an entire book about it entitled, “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”. But you see, they're ‘nobodies’.
Leftist professors infiltrated the education system so effectively that even many conservative lawyers have conformed. Professor Tribe, whose plagiarism scandal has been kept very quiet, repeated empty buzz words about the ‘Committee on Style’ that Professor McDonald completely blew away [and was ignored].
If you believe that the Committee on Style was not a group of savvy Founding Fathers who wanted one more crack at honing the Constitution in a real way and then reviewed by the rest of the Convention who AGREED with their suggested changes, then you are not a sufficient scholar of the Constitution. You would then turn to the Constitution's ‘rough draft’ and call it the actual contract, which only referred to ‘High Crimes’, a completely different legal term. That is exactly what our leftist professors did, and that is why their text books are LIES.
The impeachment of leftist commissars is a broken system until the next Nixon comes along. Only then will they see ‘the Light’.
More on impeachment, the technical problems:
No matter what 0 does, we would need members of the D.isease Party to vote for removal during an impeachment ‘trial’. And we would need Harry Reid or McConnell to allow witnesses and a cooperative spirit because even though the Chief Justice is assigned to preside, the tradition is for the Senate Majority Leader to orchestrate the entire joke-of-a-trial. I actually agree with Arlen Spector — Clinton's impeachment was ‘not proved’ because no witnesses were even allowed. I can't think of a better way to slap Trent Lott in the face for how he shut out witness intimidation and the strange death of Betty Currie's brother. [Currie was a witness whose brother was apparently beaten one day before her testimony, and then hit by a truck one day before her testimony, and then run over by a truck near Richmond — two truck ‘accidents’ on the same day — he had the same name of her brother and the only question is — was the name a coincidence that she was a nervous wreck in utter panic? Neither the beating nor the peculiar death has ever been seriously investigated except by this forum with limited access.]
Prior to the 17th Amendment, the senate represented the state governments which therefore made that once-great body opposed to centralized power. And since the ‘supreme sandwich’ Court is confirmed by the Senate, there is no longer a branch of federal power that has any natural opposition to centralized power.
Mark Levin suggested repealing the 17th Amendment, but that idea doesn't seem to be exciting enough to take off. Not to worry, there's more than one way to skin a central-power cat.
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Old Glory’s red stripes mean something, and we OWE it to those stripes to bring down this current crop of creeps in a BIG WAY.
While congress flounders [and it will], we don’t need to hope for a string of pathetic oversight hearings.
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If we can't get a conviction on that, what the hell are you talking about?
“Mark Levin suggested repealing the 17th Amendment, but that idea doesn’t seem to be exciting enough to take off. Not to worry, there’s more than one way to skin a central-power cat. “
With the rising tide of Republican State Senates and Governors the Article 5 crowd should be pushing for that State’s Convention so long as they are focused specifically on the 17th and nothing but the 17th.
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Thank you for a good post.
I have 2 comments in reply.
1. Democrat senators will not vote for removal of Obama.
2. Blanket Amnesty has a precedence. Even though illegals problem is now much worse than during Reagan, that will not be enough for successful impeachment. Besides, Obama will not issue blanket amnesty. He is more likely to issue a selective amnesty, and it will not rouse enough ire to bring articles of impeachment.
Only event which will cause successful impeachment is smoking gun evidence of direct White House involvement in Benghazi, IRS scandal or Fast & Furious. I have not yet seen such evidence. Have you?
The ‘high’ in high crimes refers to those who commit them, such as the President and his ministers. The crimes they commit don't necessarily fit neatly into felony statutes, but consist of crimes against the people. When Obama rewrites laws, he asserts that he is above the law and us. When he violates clear clauses in the constitution, he commits a crime that no private person can commit. It is through high office that Obama, Lerner, Holder commit their assaults, their crimes on the American sovereign . . . us.