Posted on 10/14/2019 5:46:45 AM PDT by karpov
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Mrs. Pelosi took the impeachment reins away from Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and handed them to Mr. Schiff, who has been running secret hearings as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Witnesses testify behind closed doors, and Democrats selectively leak the testimony or evidence to the pro-impeachment press in ways that are often distorted or incomplete. Republicans then offer a competing narrative, and the public is left to wonder what’s true. All of this is supposedly in service to the serious purpose of removing a President elected by 63 million Americans.
Mr. Schiff was challenged on his secrecy on Sunday by Margaret Brennan of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” and the Democrat’s response was extraordinary. “There’s a reason why investigations and grand jury proceedings for example, and I think this is analogous to a grand jury proceeding, are done out of the public view initially,” Mr. Schiff said. “Now we may very well call some of the same witnesses or all the same witnesses in public hearings as well. But we want to make sure that we meet the needs of the investigation and not give the President or his legal minions the opportunity to tailor their testimony and in some cases fabricate testimony to suit their interests.”
A grand jury? As Mr. Schiff knows, a grand jury is a criminal proceeding. Impeachment is a political process in which the House defines the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Mr. Schiff wants it both ways: Run his secret hearings like a criminal grand jury, but then impeach Mr. Trump of political offenses even if the President committed no crime.
And he wants to keep it all secret so Mr. Trump and his “legal minions”—i.e., his lawyers and the House minority—don’t have access to the evidence he will use against the President.
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Kangaroo Court .. on Capitol Hill?
Tell me it ain’t so, Schifty.
Kangaroo Court .. on Capitol Hill?
Tell me it ain’t so, Schifty.
Schiff has usurped the role of Independent Counsel. Even Jaworsky, Starr, and other special counsels were appointed through the Justice Department.
A Special Counsel investigation may be conducted like the Court of Star Chamber, but Impeachment Inquiries by the U.S. House are public hearings. How else can a FOIA request be honored?
Schiff needs to be required to call for another Independent Counsel to investigate “Ukraine.” Imagine the backlash if they wasted yet another $20-odd million on yet another witch-hunt? But that’s the legally-accepted way to do the secret hearings, etc.
They can’t impose their rules - or at least shouldn’t impose rules - on a check-and-balance branch so that it is neither fair, nor a ‘check’ or is completely unbalance in common fairness.
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1183798145777569797
Rep. Matt Gaetz Retweeted
Rep. Jim Jordan
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.@RepAdamSchiff is conducting his secretive impeachment proceedings in the basement of the Capitol, and now he’s kicked @mattgaetz out of today’s deposition.
This testimony should be available to every member of Congress and every single American. What is Schiff hiding?
10:34 AM - 14 Oct 2019
Of course they can. They are THEIR rules. What they can't do is tell the senate how to conduct the trial. That depends entirely on the will and courage of the senate Republicans.
Impeachment inquiries in the house are whatever the house says they are. The only Constitutional requirement is a vote on the actual impeachment.
The White House, then, as an independent branch, has its own rules about not cooperating with fake impeachment until the entire House votes to go for an impeachment inquiry as has been the tradition since the beginning.
Bingo.
What happens when LIEberals are elected to public office?
LIEberals LIE TO, CHEAT AND STEAL FROM the Citizenry!
LIEberals routinely violate the law and ignore the US Constitution!
TAXMAN: “A vote for ANY LIEberal, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!”
POTUS: “A vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream!”
TAXMAN: “America cannot survive a LIEberal victory in 2020!”
Schiff is a fag, too. These damn swamp dwellers include the “do nothing” Congress plus all US Govt. agencies. SAD.
Adam Schiff will not survive this. Something tells me that he is afraid of something worse than death.
See, it’s a PARODY of a grand jury proceeding...
#MakeThemVote
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