Posted on 12/20/2019 10:16:30 AM PST by powermill
In a series of tweets, the president accused the Democrats of not wanting to go to trial because their "case is so bad".
He tweeted: "So after the Democrats gave me no Due Process in the House, no lawyers, no witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the Senate how to run their trial. Actually, they have zero proof of anything, they will never even show up. They want out. I want an immediate trial!"
The president said the Democrats did not want Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the impeachment process, the Bidens and a CIA whistleblower who sparked the inquiry to testify.
The Democrats have argued that it is Mr Trump's Republicans who are balking at the appearance of witnesses. The House did also invite the president to testify before its investigators but he declined to do so.
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He Has That RIGHT.
They should get no more than a week tops! They can’t be allowed to run the clock on speedy trial timeline and then insist Trump waive his right to mount an effective defense to maintain the speedy trial timeline that is guaranteed under normal criminal jurisprudence, which this isn’t anyway. The dems aren’t following established rules or precedents, why should anybody?
Great idea but I think it’s very doubtful scotus would act. Also it’s unnecessary if McConnell acts now to reject it for having not been filed
Agreed.
Senate should announce dismissal. Durham to prosecute the bad actors as a separate process from the senate impeachment trial.
I would argue dismissal based on constitutional rights to speedy trial.
70 days? That’s too long!
But.... As long as this “shampeachment” is on the table, it prevents the House from working on new and different impeachment proceedings.
Or not. Wouldn’t put it past the House Rats to try and impeach again. Even before this first one is through.
Because we all know the Senate will not convict here. And I believe the House will impeach again before the November election.
The Senate has a copy of the articles. They should start the trial.
My understanding is that what she did was actually the worst possible thing she could have done for those 31 Dems. She made them walk the plank and do something very unpopular with their constituents under the guise of a time sensitive emergency, (impeachment had to happen NOW because “our very Constitutional Republic is at stake!”) and then, having pissed off the voters back home, she immediately says “just kidding it’s not that serious, we’ll just chill on this for a few weeks, maybe longer.”
Delaying hurts them. She left those Trump district Dems holding their dicks in their hands.
My thinking too. Impeachment does not nullify other Constitutional rights
I'd rather it be shorter. I'm just saying that pointing to the Sixth Amendment standard as a guidepost means that McConnell can't be accused of being arbitrary. "What the House is doing is unprecedented, so I'm going to be as fair as possible and look to whatever guidance is out there. And that's the speedy trial statute."
I don't think it will matter because the Pelosi won't budge. But it'll make McConnell look better, and make it easier for him to corral votes.
“writ of mandamus peolsi for the goods”
Exactly. And if no show, the Senate dismisses the charges with prejudice.
If we’re going to analogize to a criminal trial, the Senate has judicial power to not just acquit but dismiss if the charges are not presented or simply frivolous.
I think McConnell should simply ignore every request for negotiating. Let Pelosi hold it out until the end of the 116th Congress, at the point the impeachment resolution will expire, and it will be like it never happened.
i get the feeling Trump is setting up some type of legal claim ....i know Alan Dershowitz is beside himself about this and rumor is hes on Trumps legal team now. This would set a bad precedent..prosecutors announcing charges just to smear people or for political reasons...would they try an emergency filing with the SCOTUS?...this is just me throwing this out there..
He double dared them and Pelosi is standing in front of the frozen Pole in the Schoolyard thinking it over.
Nanny Pelosi is out of moves.
very true...that Slotkin fatass here in Michigan really caught hell....especially when she tried her “i was in the CIA and Iraq and this is about a National Security threat”..when she said that, the crowd just went wild...i thought they were gonna attack her...not kidding.
“A court has inherent power to dismiss an action with prejudice if it is vexatious, brought in bad faith, or when there has been a failure to prosecute it within a reasonable time. When a plaintiff who has commenced an action fails to comply with discovery devices, a court, which has issued the order of compliance, may sua sponte dismiss the case with prejudice”
- Think this pretty much covers everything Pelosi did.
Time to dismiss.
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