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Posted on 12/04/2019 10:08:06 AM PST by jazusamo
Speaking during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley called out Democrats and fellow members of the panel for moving forward with impeachment because "everyone is mad."
“I get it. You're mad. The President's mad. My Republican friends are mad. My Democratic friends are mad. My wife is mad. My kids are mad. Even my dog seems mad and Luna is a golden-doodle and they don't get mad. So, we're all mad. Where has it taken us? Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration? That is why this is wrong...it's wrong because this is not how you impeach and American president," Turley argued, adding that the evidence Democrats are using is severely lacking, the process is rushed and that a number of witnesses haven't been subpoenaed.
"I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. That does not bode well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply and, at times, bitterly divided,” he said.
And by the way, Turley isn't a Republican and voted against President Trump in 2016.
“I'm not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him. My personal and political views of President Trump are irrelevant to my impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote," he continued. “As I have previously written, such misuses of impeachment would convert our process into a type of no-confidence vote of Parliament. Impeachment has become an impulse buy item in our raging political environment.”
You can watch his entire opening statement below.
Law Professor Jonathan Turley Gives Opening Statement In Impeachment Inquiry
Turley is just shredding the other “experts”.
Quoting: “You have to stick the landing”.
For those who feeling drastic action like this is justified....I’d point over to Italy where they ‘change’ the government or leadership twenty times over a thirty-year period. If you attempt to justify in this case, it’ll just open retribution on massive scale.
We didn’t expect NO Spanish Inquisition!
This isn’t some game or family argument!
This is about big money!
The Democrats are afraid that they are going to lose their ability to loot our treasuries!
I don’t think that these Democrats are throat cutters, but they take money from people who are.
They are scared to death that the people bribing them are going to cut their throats if they don’t stop President Trump.
It’s life or death for them, and we need to realize that and quit giving them a pass by saying they’re just Immature.
He's not a liberal.
Turley is a Republican witness. From an earlier Fox News Story:
In the same pillared room that hosted last month's House Intelligence Committee hearings, lawmakers will hear from Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, Harvard law professor and Bloomberg columnist Noah Feldman, University of North Carolina law professor Michael Gerhardt, and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.All are Democrat witnesses except for Turley -- a point that did not escape the notice of the president Tuesday evening.
"They get three constitutional lawyers ... and we get one," Trump said during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London. "That's not sounding too good, and that's the way it is. We don't get a lawyer, we don't get any witnesses -- we want Biden, we want the son Hunter, where's Hunter? We want Schiff. We want to interview these people. Well, they said no. We can't do it."
Turkey has been a talking head on news shows for decades. He is a very experienced and effective communicator.
[[If you attempt to justify in this case, it’ll just open retribution on massive scale]]
exactly- it will become a system of government where WE the People will never again be able to elect the president we want for this country, because the other side will impeach them out of office out of pure spite from here on out- Government will become nothing more than a never ending investigative unit, bogged down in partisan investigations and hearings, while the country falls to pieces all around it as a result of the do nothing congress who will now be obsessed with impeaching the sitting presidents-
By “ impeaching” Trump the Congress is disenfranchising 63 million voters
How is that gonna fly?
Thanks! I stand corrected, I should have said Democrat.
Turley is a liberal in the old school way where it is a philosophy not a religion.
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Wrong? It is wrong?
They don’t have any concept of such a thing. I am not being sarcastic.
The Dem “expert” says that Obstruction of Congress, by refusing subpoenas is the same as Obstruction of Justice.....
Incredible that they could be so wrong.
Justice is the referee between Congress and the Executive.
Otherwise you have no separation of powers. The Founding Fathers would not and did not intend that.
If the Legislative and Executive disagree, Justice referees.
He’d better get a food taster and someone to start his car for him, now.
If they pull this Coup off, Mad may turn into Dead.
As they say Rats, be careful what you wish for.
I hope Professor Turley has tenure. Because liberal college administrators don’t like folks going off the reservation.
The left knows they cant beat President Trump..its really that simple. If they thought their candidates were so strong and Trump is so weak what is the problem, wait til November 2020 and beat him..but they know they cant..their agenda is total sh*t and they know it..they cant beat him so like other commies do in Communist countries, if they cant take back the Govt legitimately, they take it by force
The left could care less about the 63 million voters..they hate our guts anyway and want us dead..in their minds we dont exist
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