Posted on 02/02/2020 6:04:27 PM PST by OddLane
There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed. The White House team were effective advocates for their clients and we do not disbar lawyers for making arguments or defending individuals that we do not like. I was surprised and disappointed therefore that my fellow witness from the Trump impeachment hearing, North Carolina Law Professor and CNN Legal Analyst Michael Gerhardt joined this dubious argument on CNN yesterday. The call for ethics charges seems dangerously close to the view of Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump defenders are barred from his MSNBC program because they are all “liars.”
Obviously, Gerhardt and I have substantial disagreements. Gerhardt supported the articles of impeachment based on bribery and other crimes. I opposed those four articles, which were ultimately rejected by the Committee. The Committee went forward with the two articles that I said would be legitimate but remained unproven. We later disagreed when Gerhardt declared that this impeachment was the first time that the White House closely coordinated with his own party on the handling of the impeachment trial. Those however were academic differences over the history and interpretation of prior presidential impeachment cases.
This however is different. Proponents of the impeachment seem to be lashing out at counsel and suggesting that they were acting unethically in zealously advancing the President’s defenses. After disagreeing with me that the impeachment was not “rushed” prematurely, Gerhardt asked to make a different point about the defense team. He declared...
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If so it’s pure retaliation.
When they talk I just see them all Farting in the bathtub.
They’re going after Trump’s team because they did their jobs effectively.
Gee... What’s gonna have to happen to make it stop?
Ok.
Gerhardt is beyond stupid but go for it.
We need reeducation camps for 62-million Trump voters, too.
Anybody going after Dershowitz is not thinking clearly. They will be demolished.
That would be a direct assault on the rule of law for everyone, so, don't expect its proponents to survive the first salvo.
Nothing more than a fart in a windstorm.
...and biting the bubbles.
From all I could see they were extraordinary in both their constitutional law and their presentations.
Sounds like something a bunch of vindictive sore loser bitch ass punks would do.
I think the Demoncrats really want a shooting war sometimes
Bump
They bring these charges and Pelosi and the entire DNC should be publicly dragged from the House floor.
This is NOT how the US government works and the DNG are proving themselves, by the hour, to be a clear and present danger to the Republic.
Go for it.
Just when I think the dems have reached the limits of their stupidity, they surpass even my expectations
The Rats are taking “Sore Loser” to a whole new epic level!
Clearly they’re extremely embarrassed that POTUS’s legal team destroyed and humiliated Schittforbrains, Lard@ss, and the rest of the nasty dull-normal House managers.
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