Posted on 10/30/2019 7:38:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Senate Republicans drafted a resolution condemning the House for hearing witness testimony behind closed doors while excluding Republicans in violation of the President’s Due Process rights, beyond the scrutiny of cross examination and the rules of evidence, and then demanded the House conduct a formal vote and provide Due Process protections as well as minority participation, cheers rang out among rank and file Republicans: Senate Republicans finally threw away their tiddlywinks and actually stepped things up by bringing a knife to the Democrats’ gun fight!
Not unsurprisingly, the positive yields from punching back versus simply taking it have been immediate with Speaker Nancy Pelosi feeling so backed into a corner that she has been forced to formalize impeachment process in her own resolution, set to be voted on this week. All this in a matter of hours.
But a knife at a gun fight won’t cut it. It’s time for Senate Republicans to take this one step further and launch a pre-emptive strike that will nuke anything the House does. This is, after all, political war and we are fighting for our very survival.
The Constitution is very clear. “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” Any such trial shall be under “Oath and Affirmation.” If it involves the President, “the Chief Justice shall preside” and conviction requires 2/3 of the members present. That’s about it. The Constitution and existing law have precious little to say about the actual Senate trial, if and how it should take place.
The Senate is a check on the People’s House run amok -- quite literally a last stand against the barbarian mobs frothing at the gate. What we are witnessing today with the Democrats intent on crafting from whole cloth some kind of tenuous basis for Trump’s impeachment
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Republican-controlled Senate should change its rules or enact new rules establishing that it will summarily dismiss any impeachment from the House and not hold a trial, when that impeachment is based on any of the following:
* Partisan politics (this can be proven since impeachment has been their clarion call since Election Night 2016);
* Conduct that falls squarely within the executive’s constitutionally-enumerated powers (among others, the executive’s ability to conduct foreign and national security policy, to protect the homeland, and to fully execute the laws of the United States, including investigating and prosecuting corruption carried out by citizens);
* Hearsay evidence and any other evidence that would be inadmissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence; * Information protected by executive privilege or that is classified; evidence that has been obtained in violation of the accused’s constitutional guarantees or any other laws; or
* Evidence that was illegally obtained.
Don’t do anything. The Democrats are doing a great job of exposing themselves and losing the 2020 election!
Just go into closed session, play a few hands of solitare on their computers to make it look like they are deliberating, then vote to dismiss and move on.
All they have to do is make a motion to dismiss. The Chief Justice will refer that for a vote and all that is needed is 51 and it is over.
Just take an immediate, down the party line, vote no for summary judgment to dismiss with prejudice.
Two out of three isn't bad. I don't think the Constitution gives them the authority to dismiss the impeachment or refuse to hold the trial. It'd make for an interesting legal challenge but in the end I think the court would require the Senate trial be held. And it would wind up in an acquittal since there aren't 67 votes to convict.
Just keep the morons talking, they are burying themselves with this. The only thing they have going for them is that their voters are idiots. Most do not seem to be able to read and almost NONE of them can reason.
The Senate should draft a Resolution and vote on it today.
To state that if and when any idiot House Impeachment Resolutions does reach the Senate Floor; it will be immediately voted DOWN. And Not Approved. Without any panel discussion. Without calling back witnesses.
The Senate needs to send a clear message now to Schiff for Brains and other Rats that they are wasting their time with their secret hearings and all that nonsense.
Bingo
If they have a trial, they should adapt the same rules that the House used to the Senate.
“ but in the end I think the court would require the Senate trial be held.“
The Courts can’t tell Congress squat. They’re a sovereign and co-equal Branch.
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“Not unsurprisingly...”
What the heck is that supposed to mean?
This prevents the Dem senators from campaigning effectively.
And massive voter fraud
That will Never happen with Mitch. Never. It wouldn’t pass either. That Cuck Mitt would find 4 votes to kill it bank it.
Watch them.
They oughta drag it out until November.
This prevents the Dem senators from campaigning effectively.
They’ll be on TV every day with nonstop free campaign ads from Fake News TV. And Senate business will grind to a halt. No judges, etc. Brilliant.
If they have a trial, they should adapt the same rules that the House used to the Senate.
No reason the Senate can’t hold hearings right now. It was done during Watergate. Since the GOP controlled Senate is not having hearings now exposing this coup I can only conclude they want POTUS impeached every bit as much as the House Dems do.
* Congress can be called as witnesses if they were involved outside of the process.
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