Posted on 07/16/2019 5:30:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday under a process that will force a House floor vote by the end of this week.
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Green introduced his articles of impeachment after the House passed a resolution largely along party lines condemning Trump for suggesting that four progressive freshman congresswomen of color - Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) - "go back" to their countries.
Green said that the House should go beyond condemning Trump and move to remove him from office.
It will be the third impeachment floor vote forced by Green in the last two years, but the first since Democrats took control of the House.
Green previously forced procedural votes on articles of impeachment against Trump in December 2017 and January 2018. Both efforts drew the support of about 60 House Democrats.
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> So Green et al have proof of criminal activities Trump engaged in? <
Impeachment is a political process. No proof of actual criminal activity is needed. The Founders gave the House the power to decide just what an impeachable offense is. No appeal is possible.
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that the House could legally impeach a president just because the president had a bad temper.
So yeah, the House could impeach Trump For the “high crime” of having a funny haircut. That would be perfectly legal, and constitutional. Would the American people be okay with that? And would the Senate convict? That’s another story.
That’s not a high crime.
67. That’s what I thought. So the house can go ahead and bring the charges with a single majority but then they have a very high bar in the Senate. Hell of a gamble they are taking.
Impeachment (House) and removal (Senate) are both tied to high crimes and misdemeanors.
Dems have to provide what these are or they need to be impeached.
Without Dems providing what the high crimes and misdemeanors are one could be impeached for having bad hair.
‘We shall destroy you from within’ -- Nikita Kruschev
Sadly, the reality is the DNC/CPUSA party and their fellow leftwing RINOs can use ANY REASON to vote to impeach & convict.
Impeachment is a political process - not a legal process.
Boy, Those are high crimes and misdemeanors if I ever heard them
Al Green, another poster child for term limits.
Not to worry, President Trump is holding a ace high straight flush in spades in his hand! The crazy line is forming to the left.
>>Impeachment is a political process. No proof of actual criminal activity is needed. The Founders gave the House the power to decide just what an impeachable offense is. No appeal is possible.<<
Your forgetting, the people have a say in this by one means or another.
Then ALL Americans have to have it pounded into their heads that if Dems try to do this they have no proof that Trump committed any crimes and that it is yet another witch hunt with an attempted burning (removal by Senate).
also why impeach close to an election let the public decide.
Lastly this will be another year of a do nothing congress, may not be bad.
Impeaching & convicting POTUS Trump will likely be the ignition to a formal CW2.
> Impeachment (House) and removal (Senate) are both tied to high crimes and misdemeanors. Dems have to provide what these are... <
Right. But that is a very easy thing to do. A “high crime” does not have to be a serious crime. The Founders considered a “high crime” to be any crime committed by a high official, such as the president.
So the House Democrats need only say that Trump violated his oath of office by making racist remarks. Since Trump is a high official, that’s a high crime. That’s silly, I know. But it is legal, and constitutional.
Yeah, THAT Al Green was good stuff
Bring it on m’Fer’s! The war creeps closer.
> the people have a say in this by one means or another <
True enough. But you have more faith in the American people than I do. If Trump is impeached and then removed, the folks who voted for Trump would be very upset. But 99% of them would do nothing. After all, there are bills to pay. And the cable TV still works.
So there would be a few angry calls to Rush. And that would be about it.
By the way, I’m not taking some sort of holier-than-thou stance. What would I do if the Deep State removed Trump? Well, I would be upset. But I don’t think I’d take my musket down from the wall.
Yup. These adolescent assholes are clueless.
Green is fit for the south end of a north-bound rope.
So simple, that he’s a congressman...
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