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To: Savage Beast

Supreme Court will say this is a political question and a separation of powers issue and they have absolutely no constitutional authority to get involved.


14 posted on 12/19/2019 5:52:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Supreme Court will say this is a political question and a separation of powers issue and they have absolutely no constitutional authority to get involved.

Constitutionally correct. But Roberts might say it is a tax!

22 posted on 12/19/2019 5:57:31 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Are you sure? The issue of separation of powers and the constitutionality of "impeachment" for arbitrary and unconstitutional purposes might be one that the Supreme Court should address.

Certainly Justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Gorsuch have witnessed the weaponization of legal distortions for political purposes and might be willing to address this issue.

23 posted on 12/19/2019 5:57:46 AM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Savage Beast
"So shouldn’t President Trump appealed to the Supreme Court to nullify this “impeachment” on the grounds that it is unconstitutional because no crime, misdemeanor, bribery, or treason was committed? What would be the outcome?"

Supreme Court will say this is a political question and a separation of powers issue and they have absolutely no constitutional authority to get involved."

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Either Trump sends his argument to SCOTUS, or the Senate sends a complaint there stating the House is obstructing their Constitutional mandate.

SCOTUS does as you suggest, says this is political and refuses to get involved.

And since there is no law, nor Constitutional requirement that the House has to physically send a paper copy of any articles of impeachment over to the Senate side, the Senate should take up the articles of impeachment that are currently publicly available on the House web site and do whatever it is they are going to do (hold a trial with witnesses, or majority leader McConnel dismissing them as fraudulent, etc)

The House takes their case to SCOTUS arguing the Senate can't do that without them "sending" the articles over.

SCOTUS is then going to do what? Go against what they just opined...say it's now not political and takes up the House's argument?

As long as this coup is happening, let's go to war...get all the dirty political laundry out in the open for all to see.

95 posted on 12/19/2019 8:06:22 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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