Posted on 11/22/2019 12:34:12 PM PST by Red Badger
Just heard on Fox that the court is expected to rule on Bolton’s subpoena on the 10th. Lot’s happening on the 9th, 10th and 11th. POPCORN
Bolton would be dead to conservatives and Republicans were he to work with the Democrats. The DIMS already hate him so if he comes off anti-Trump, his book and he will relegated to the appropriate dustbin of history. He would be lucky to sell 100 copies.
However, after the impeachment is over and he release a "bombshell” tell all book critical of the inner workings of the Trump Administration, he will be on every talk show from now until election day.
Trump is not worried about Bolton so I am am thinking Bolton will have very little to offer with regards to Ukraine. He hates Ruddy and that is where his venom will be directed if he were to testify.
I am beginning to wonder if there is not some link between the Biden’s and Ukraine's involvement in the Steele Dossier?
In the summer people lose interest in politics and will be uninterested for the two and a half months leading up to the Republican Convention. That is why the DIMS are crying it is so unfair they hold their convention in July. Nobody will really be paying attention.
After 24 August it will be election 24/7 until November. Legislative work will grind to a halt
The DIMS have 5 Months to accomplish something and distance themselves from the Clown Show, hoping voters have short memories. But if impeachment goes into March or April, the clown show is all anyone will remember about this Congress.
Even expediting a cases before the Supreme Court it could be March or April before they get a judgment.
They may have a more nefarious reason. I think they need to prevent Trump from replacing RBG in 2020 claiming a President under the cloud of impeachment cannot nominate a Justice to replace her.
Where is that written in the Constitution? I must have missed it, somewhere.............must be under the 'Penumbra Clause'..............
As George Will once pointed out, Americans don’t pay any attention to elections until after the World Series.............
Here is my conspiracy theory:
It is widely expected that there might be a near-term opening on the Supreme Court due to the death of a sitting Justice.
If the Senate is tied up with an Impeachment, they can hardly be in a position to divert attention from that for confirmation hearings, now can they? I mean, is it even FAIR for an impeached President to nominate anyone? Is this what the Founders would have wanted?
This will be the MSM/Democrat argument.
And by the time the trial is over, well isn't it too late to do confirmation hearings?
This sham has little to do with Trump, and a lot to do with Ginsberg.
So, that's my theory.
Same place it was written that Obama could not replace Scalia it is the Majority leader in the Senate. McConnell has been great on judges but I would not bet the farm on him.
One thing I’ll say for these traitors... their wagon may be full of $hit, but they’ve got a never ending supply of media mules to pull it.
The President isn't the governor of the people, and is not elected by the people. The President presides over the federation of sovereign states, and it's the states that elect the President via the Electoral College. The states have the Constitutional power to choose how to select the Electors to the Electoral College.
Buttressing this, the impeachment trial was to be held in the Senate, which was made up of Senators appointed by the state legislatures. This means that the states, via the Electoral College, chose the President; and the states, via the Senate, could remove a President.
All this changed with the 17th amendment that made the Senate popularly elected by the people. No longer did the state legislature itself have the power of choosing their representation in the Senate. This means that the power to remove a President was effectively handed to the people, and by extension, to the political parties that fund the campaigns of Senators.
It's the party control of Senators today that makes impeachment destined to fail, but it wasn't designed to fail by the Framers.
-PJ
He will subpoena Schiff. He will subpoena the Bidens. He will subpoena Ciaramella.
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Can they ignore the subpoenas? Refuse to appear out of contempt for POTUS and the GOP?
Seriously asking.
Dems are running the campaign on the taxpayer dime. Trash Trump constantly from a stately setting with media talking heads repeating it all day long.
I got the impression Bolton was waiting to use the subpoena as cover for testifying. Is that your take? If he flips and helps the rats I will have never been so wrong about someone.
Bolton is a bit of an enigma to me. Trump says he has nothing. The democrats know he is not a huge smoking gun or they would wait it out. I think a lot comes down to having his panties in a bunch and a forthcoming book.
I noted this on another thread but it’s worth repeating how drastic the opinion difference is between your typical pundit and true Constitutional experts.
Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz are libs but they do know the Constitution. And its funny how these leftist hosts, pundits and never-Trumpers on these shows seem to not comprehend why they don’t see the same ‘proof’ of Trump’s guilt that the pundits do.
They want the headlines ad nauseam but they definitely don’t want to be held to account by the voters.
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