Posted on 01/23/2021 12:38:04 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
What does the US Constitution say about removing a president who is out of office?
And who presides over this farce? The Constitution says the Chief Justice will preside over a trial of the "president". BUT TRUMP is now a private citizen. Joe Biden is president.
True, true. She’s wise enough to know some slopes are slippery, indeed.
-PJ
I don’t see 17 willing to walk the plank either. Survival is written in every politician’s DNA. Politicians may be 99 things, but suicidal volunteers ain’t one of them.
Good point.
The president is immune from prosecution during the tenure of his presidency. Impeachment of a sitting president is the means whereby he may be removed from office. Once the president is no longer in office impeachment is moot. Using impeachment of an ex president to preclude him from holding office again is extra constitutional.
I miss the brain cells that got killed off during the few times I listened to his show. :)
Totally agree. Impeachment serves as a check on a sitting president by a co-equal branch of government, the legislative branch. Trump is now a private citizen and therefore, as you note, this whole charade becomes moot.
He was President at impeachment. He is not at trial. Sounds like the Rain of Kamala will preside. The first action should be consideration of a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.
😂😂😂
Absolutely.
The problem is that taking an action like that legitimizes the holding of a trial proceeding in the first place.
I think the best course is for the Supreme Court to refuse to participate. That sends a signal to Congress that they are encroaching on the legitimacy of the Presidency.
Congress under Pelosi has become one power grab after another, and they are way overreaching here.
Roberts can do go down in history as the Chief Justice who rewrote ObamaCare legislation, or he can go down in history as the Chief Justice who defined the boundaries of impeachment for future Presidents.
-PJ
The proper response for Roberts is to preside and rule at the start of the trial that the Senate lacks jurisdiction, not to refuse to preside. Roberts could also rule that he does not preside because Trump is no longer president.
I'm not convinced of that. CIA could take him out and very well might if he only had his own team. Not wanting to make SS look bad could slow them down.
Au contraire! Go back and restudy your elementary anatomy. The reproductive organs of both sexes. testes and ovaries, are referred to as gonads.
Doesn’t matter what it says since we are living in a post constitutional oligarchy😥
Speaking of Chinese spies, their stooge Stalwell is an impeachment manager again. China is paying for this farce (in one case just with services rendered), just like they are paying for their democrat/socialist majority in the House and Senate.
Ha!
I believe they cheated. Why they would think a less powerful man, just a citizen now, is anything to worry about seems silly. I hope they will be done with the Covid-19 hysteria by then. Maybe that is it?
She even has Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands as a House Manager, and she is a non-voting delegate in Congress. She only has authority to vote in Committee votes, not House floor votes, which makes it strange to give her the authority (if she even has it) to speak for the House in the Senate.
-PJ
Constitution?
It’s now toilet paper.
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