Very important step. Not missed by this Congress /s
“Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.”
The impeachment process is a criminal process under the Constitution [high crimes and misdemeanors] but as the constitution makes clear in this one single proceeding the Congress has jurisdiction rather than the federal judiciary.
As such due process protections apply including right to be informed of the charges against him and the right to subpoena witnesses. Due process means that the Federal Rules of Evidence (which are Congressionally approved) apply.
This would then tie up any impeachment activities until there is a Supreme Court ruling, which would likely be so close to the election that it would become moot.
This ex post facto version of impeachment is objectionable for at least three reasons.
This author misses the point entirely. By its very nature, and by design of the founding fathers, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" was supposed to be determined on a case-by-case basis, because impeachment is a political, not a legal, process. Ex post facto determination of a high crime is baked into
The check on unwarranted impeachment is the high bar of a 2/3 majority in the Senate for removal from office, and the fact that the Representatives have to face their voting constituents every two years.
The same approach can be found in the Uniform Code of Military Justice article 133, which is a catch-all "conduct unbecoming an Officer" that is determined ex post facto" what constitutes such offending conduct.
A blight on this country and on the Constitution!
It would be better if they just give the reason for all this as “we want our power back and we hate Donald Trump”. Truth always works and it would make the media look like they are at least in puberty and not elementary.
They talk on this as if it’s legit! It’s a lie from beginning to end and I hate to see them make a mockery of everything this country is.. was.
I heard last night on Fox, Trump is transparent... he is what he is... all the rest are fake in public and like this in private. But they have fooled most of those who think with no brains.. that he is different and orders are to hate him...
It pains and lowers those who are reporting as if this today is legit.. wallace is one of them... he wishes so he makes it true.. IT’S MOT! Mike, it’s all a big lie!
What Constitution? The Demonicrats wiped their butts with ours 20 million abortions ago.
Some of the most EVIL collectives in the history of this fabulous republic.
It’s just standard ops for Nanzi. We have to impeach him to find out what he’s guilty of.
Bkmk
Since the earliest political parties in the US were not established until after the states ratified the Constitution, the drafters of the Constitution arguably failed to foresee the need to constitutionally prohibit political party support for POTUS.
Anti-Administration party
As a consequence of this oversight, and as PDJT supporters have already pointed out, corrupt Democrats have now weaponized the impeachment process to try to get rid of a lawfully elected and very popular POTUS.
Desparate Democrats and RINOs ultimately want to retain control of state powers and state revenues that the feds have been stealing from the states for decades, which most federal domestic policy and spending is unconstitutionally based on imo.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
State revenues are stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes indicated by the Gibbons excerpt above, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
"The Holy Grail of organized crime is to control government power to tax." me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member. me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." me