Posted on 09/28/2019 11:20:59 AM PDT by gattaca
Trump will have a 60% approval rating. Americans love a fighter. only a couple republicans will vote to convict him.
So you think these GOP senators are so mentally challenged that they won’t realize they are voting for their own termination too!
The only one I see maybe doing that is Romney!
He might be able to convince himself that he has his Utah voters in lockstep due to his church.
I don’t think the voters of Utah would reward him no matter what their bishops say!
The fact is the trial can be about whether Trump was falsely accused and can get into the “whistleblower” report and also whether the Bidens were in fact engaged in unethical behavior. Make the trial about the Democrats and the Bidens.
I think this person presumes too much.
Impeachment and trial are nothing more than additional procedures in each chamber, and the Constitution says that each chamber makes its own rules. This applies to impeachment and trial, too.
The author assumes that the trial will operate like a criminal trial in a court of law. That is not true. The President might not get an open-ended opportunity to call witnesses. The calling of witnesses is just another "rule" that the Senators (alone) will negotiate before the trial begins.
The minority will fight hard to prevent the President from calling witnesses at all. The (weak and feckless) majority will likely give in and limit the number (and subject) of witness that Trump may call. They may even limit the number of days the President has to defend himself. They may even limit who can represent him.
In other words, the Senators can stack the trial any way they want to, as it is nothing more than another "rule" in their chamber.
It is not a sure thing that Trump will get a fair opportunity to defend himself.
-PJ
All nice in theory, but I have no confidence there is a competent Senator to act as lead questioning Attorney. Now if the Republicans can farm that out, then a big maybe this might be how it unfolds.
It’s like gun control: while they hope it will happen, they know it won’t but find it a great fund raising issue.
It may take 2 election cycles to fully get on the ballot, by then it won’t matter.
That's good, if someone can be found to charge them.
Then except your chains you slave.
No that’s not right. The SCOTUS has no control over impeachment. They are only there because the VP who is over the Senate would pose a conflict of interest. It would be up to the Republicans, and there’s enough of those rats that will also be exposed and going to jail as well where Trump innocence means nothing to them. Trump will be seen as the one declaring war on them. They will get with the D-craps and finish it for Trump. Then Ken Burns Civil War Part II will start.
The fact is that Pence would be 10 times worse for them than Trump.
As if the scumocRATS GAF.
They’ll have the Joeseph Goebels propaganda machine cut out all the parts of the process they dont like.
So, THIS, was His brilliant plan as revealed by Kim Clement 2-22-14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_NY_hxwxtY
Our LORD does move in mysterious ways.
Thank You, my GOD.
Amen.
BTW. During the trail, NO SENATOR is allowed to speak on the floor. The trial will be presided by the chief Justice of the supreme court.
They have to sit there as jurists and make their decision as a jury.
Spines are not the only body part R's are missing.
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