Trump did NOT commit an impeachable offense on call with Ukraine’s president

While I understand you are advancing a strict constitutional argument, the truth is that if the process becomes entirely corrupt or places the union in at existentialist risk, then those self-same constitutional provisions become subject to alternative measures.

For example, can you please direct me and/or other readers to the constitutional provision(s) that states cannot secede from the union? Likewise, if a fail-safe process like impeachment was included under the general assumption that both the executive and legislative branches would be held my moral people invested in the rule of law, continuity and general peace, what should be the counter-measure if those assumptions become null & void?

If anyone cares to review some of my prior comments, I frequently allude to Lincoln and the prescriptive actions he undertook during those times. Trump has long established precedent on his side to declare certain actions a fundamental threat to the national security of the union. If prog's wish to weaponize long recognized standards of decency and behavior, then Trump not only has a right, but an obligation, to declare such measures an existential threat.

I’m not interested in speculating about what elected officials might do in violation of their oaths to defend the Constitution. I get the idea that a lot of people with a variety of political perspectives dream of getting the Constitution out of the way of achieving their goals, but I am not one of them.

It's a very one-sided process with a new set of rules. They think the media will sway enough of the public to think it legitimate so that it will hurt Trump. I think one poll claims the public is split 47-47 on whether Trump should be impeached and removed from office. One point less than the 48% who voted for Hillary. I suspect that poll is inaccurate but a steady drumbeat of this is designed to make Trump so unpopular that he will be defeated in November 2020.

At this point it looks like the House may vote to impeach but the Senate won't vote to convict. At most Romney and a couple of other Republicans might go with the Democrats.

".... At most Romney and a couple of other Republicans might go with the Democrats....."

That flake, Jeff Flake, claims there are 35 GOP Senators who will jump ship and vote to convict Trump.

So there's that....

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