Posted on 08/25/2018 3:18:37 AM PDT by SMGFan
Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard, is the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Imagine if in 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, rather than routing his opponent, had barely won the presidential election. In that world, when evidence came to light that Nixon had committed impeachable offenses during his campaign, it would have been plausible to suppose that those offenses were essential to his victory.
And the stakes would then have been even higher than they were when, in 1974, the Supreme Court was deciding whether Nixon had to comply with a grand jury demand that he deliver up subpoenaed tapes and documents that would prove whether those offenses, and abuses of executive power to cover them up, had indeed been committed by the president. As we all know, United States v. Nixon came out 8 to 0, sounding the death knell of Nixons presidency, once he produced the incriminating tapes.
A similarly unanimous outcome would be less likely today, however. Observers need look no further than Bush v. Gore to conclude that the courts heightened polarization and the pro-executive leanings of several of its justices point to a closely divided ruling in an increasingly-less-hypothetical United States v. Trump.
So instead imagine a Trump appointee to the court one named as impeachment clouds were gathering and seemingly selected with a presidential eye focused sharply on his pro-presidential writings casting the deciding vote in a future case against Trump, involving an issue such as the presidents obligation to comply with a subpoena to testify or the presidents amenability to indictment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Let the river of liberal tears flow.
The TDS is strong in this one. The meltdown of leftists continues.
JoMa
At this point in time invoking the “founding fathers” does not add any credibility to the wapo agenda.
I think we’ll find down the road that Kavanaugh is Kennedy.......
So he wrote this because he thinks it will fool Senators into voting against Kavanaugh?
I think we’ll find down the road that Kavanaugh is Kennedy.......
I hope not.....
What impeachable offenses? Can they even be committed before a person is elected?
This is ridiculous. He was duly elected, now time to “move on”
How can you tell?
The last refuge of a scoundrel such as Laurence H. Tribe is putting false words into the mouths of the founding fathers...
Lie #1
(Hillary took a sizable ass-whoopin'.)
committed impeachable offenses during his campaign
Lie #2
(high crimes and misdemeanors were not committed while seated President. Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice and perjury while in office. )
as impeachment clouds were gathering
Lie #3
(impeachment "clouds" are only in the fever dreams of the derp state media. Even in those dreams, no crimes are alleged or were committed BEFORE Trump was elected).
Three blatant lies before the click. Go to link to discover many more lies the Washington Post can pack into one article.
I bet it's a lot.
Bagster
It's funny when the Derp State leftards pretend to respect the founding fathers.
Bagster
“At this point in time invoking the founding fathers does not add any credibility to the wapo agenda.”
Actually the founders, unlike today’s Democrats, would believe in the rule of law. President Trump took office after receiving the requisite number of electoral votes (i.e. according to the Constitution which is the law of the land). There is no evidence any popular or electoral vote was changed by any alleged “illegal” action by Trump. Therefore he is the legitimate president according to the law of the land and his nomination of Kavanaugh is valid.
The founders would perceive the nomination as valid and would carefully review Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications for office. If the judge demonstrated a respect for the law, as written, his public and private life indicated he was a person of high integrity (the word they used was virtuous), and there was no indication his opinions were swayed by outside influences, they would confirm him. Most of the founders abhorred sharply partisan ideological politics as practiced today.
Professor Tribe is an advocate of the “living Constitution”, not the written Constitution. He favors the Supreme Court “interpreting” whatever a majority of the Court wishes as the law of the land instead of using the Amendment process to change the document. In essence Tribe is an advocate of the judicial tyranny of today’s federal courts where individual district judges nullify acts of the president or Congress based on opinion, not the letter of the Constitution or letter of laws enacted by Congress.
There is a reason Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not nominate Professor Tribe to the Supreme Court. His nomination would not have been approved by the Senate.
Yeah. I agree. This guy is no Alito or Thomas. If Kavanaugh turns out to be a strict constuctionist then look for Roberts to be the new Kennedy. We need one more.
This guy Kavanaugh drips of deep state. Siding with the NSA against Americans, working for Bush. No bid.
They seek to stop Kavenaugh by any means necessary. Which means we need him on SCOTUS.
I am actually quite surprised. Considering the lifestyle Trump bragged about living for decades I am quite astonished to discover the Rats have only been able to ferret out TWO women that make these allegations. TWO? Thats it? Trump isnt even coming close to BJ numbers. TWO? Trump must have been living like a monk for the last two decades if they can only find two bimbos in the last 20 years. He isnt even close to racking up BJ type numbers.
The founding fathers wouldve taken up arms against the Democrats at this point.
another hate America fool.
another hate America fool.
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