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 Nixon’s 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 court’s 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 president’s obligation to comply with a subpoena to testify or the president’s amenability to indictment.
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Tribe is/was married to CODY SHEARERS sister!!!!!!!!! Cody and Sid Vicious are both part of this COUP ATTEMPT!u
Impeachment is a political process, not a legal process.
If the democRATS get control of the House, their first item of agenda will be to impeach Trump for whatever "offenses" they want. Forget the "high crimes and misdemeanors."
High crimes and misdemeanors really means is that crimes and misdemeanors were committed by a person in high office.
Trump can be impeached for anything they can get enough votes for. Anything.
Buy being convicted by the Senate is another story.
If Trump is impeached but not convicted, it will get really ugly, real quick.
He will go after his enemies in true Trump fashion. They will rue the day they impeached him.
Buy = But
Those are amateur numbers. You gotta get those numbers up.
The Left only thinks they’re angry now. Wait until PDJT replaces the buzzard from the ACLU with, say, a former lead legal counsel to the NRA.
United States v. Nixon came out 8 to 0, sounding the death knell of Nixon’s presidency, once he produced the incriminating tapes.
. . . but "US vs. Trump” wouldn’t be the same issue because it is the Special Persecutor who has things to hide. Not Trump, who has allowed his lawyer to be interviewed by Mueller for a work-week - forty hours.The persecutor has bupkis.
“..Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard,...”
Hey, Larry.... the Founding Fathers would have HANGED over half of your democrat co-conspirators already to put an end to the coup attempt. They’d have called this current state of affairs “sedition”.
Some “professor”...
Since when does the left give a rat’s ass about the founding fathers? All I hear lately is how they were evil white men who owned slaves.
Thanks for stating that right up front. Saved me the time and effort to read Larry's mentally diseased BS.
When they're not removing their names from public buildings and schoolbooks, they're "honoring them" by using their names to either bastardize or eviscerate the Constitution they so treasured.
Tribe and the liberal media are on to something[ when they say that current events remind them of Watergate. In fact, it is a very good analogy. The irony is they have the parties mixed up. It’s not Trump covering up a conspiracy to conduct illegal survalence, it’s the FBI and the DOJ covering up and lying about up their own conspiracy to spy on Trump.
Except the fact that Clinton was under Investigation when he Nominated both Breyer and Ginsburg.
Larry is a liberal. Who the hell cares what some sadsack anti-American thinks.
“The Founding Fathers wouldn’t want Kavanaugh’s confirmation to continue”
that’s a new one for the lying leftist fake stream enemedia ... What Would The Founding Fathers Think? (WWTFFT)
Larry Tribe, that old hack. He was a blip on the radar in the 1970s.
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