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I sure hope Trump is not being set up here. The RINOs in the Senate could very easily side with the DEMs, and Trump couldn’t do a damn thing about it. And neither would conservatives.
A senate acquittal would be a mistake. It needs to be tried in the senate and handled fairly.
If there is a quick acquittal, the dems may revisit a trial when they are in power again and pull the same totalitarian tricks they did in the congressional hearings.
It needs to be tried fairly in the senate.
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Before you can even legitimate get to the Senate to try the impeachment charges, you have to have a constitutional and legitimate impeachment process which this is not.
Explanation:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3800593/posts?page=48#48
The Committee Democrats approved the impeachment articles because they’re all insane haters, but the rest of the Democrat House members may be more realistic ...
“Obstruction of Congress” was always a real stretch anyways, the courts never ruled on any of the subpoenas because the Dems never gave them a chance, they were in such a rush to get this whole thing done by Christmas.
So, I could easily see the House refusing that charge, and JUST sending the “abuse of power” charge to the Senate
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This is what is more than likely going to happen:
Jaz I suspect Democrats wanted a show trial... wanted to beat up Trump for the cameras - - ‘soften’ him up before the election. I doubt they’ll vote this to the Senate - democrats would be exposed for what they REALLY are if this got to the Senate. They won’t take that risk.
We’ll see - it’s only a guess.
By their actions today on Trump impeachment, Pelosi, Schiff & Nadler have lost the 2020 POTUS election to POTUS, Donald J. Trump and have effectively destroyed the Democrat Party politically...period!!!
The procedure for the “trial” is in the Senate rules, which the Senate may change. As the rules currently stand, the Speaker (Pelosi) will appoint impeachment “managers” who will act as prosecutors. However, it seems to me that McConnell could ram through a rules change depriving Pelosi of that appointment power. (Why the heck not?) Perhaps, the rules could be changed such that McConnell himself would appoint the managers... (Jim Jordan?)
Lindsey Graham has all the power necessary to hold hearings to eliminate the Deep State. He can subpoena witnesses and have the Supreme Court authorize them.
I believe that it would be a mistake to turn an impeachment trial into such a vehicle. This would give the Dems the cover of claiming that their wish to call witnesses was of a special sort due to the extreme importance of the impeachment process. They could well force the testimony of every person in the Trump administration or put them into the poor position of having to ignore the Supreme Court or to take the fifth.
I believe that there is more protection for Executive Privilege outside of an impeachment proceeding. Otherwise, we turn an impeachment trial into the world's most powerful fishing expedition.
I don't believe that the Supreme Court would interfere if the Senate decides to simply dismiss the matter. The Chief Justice's role would simply be to certify that a majority of the Senate voted to dismiss.