The liberal democrat lawyer Feldman affirmed my take that impeachment is initiated in the House (the sole body that can set it in motion) and is then disposed of in the Senate, that it’s a process, a two-step process that cannot be separated into only one part belonging to the House.
If the charges of impeachment never make it to the Senate, the impeachment was never delivered, it is as good as abandoned, it is left incomplete.
The President is therefore NOT impeached.
I believe there is something far more sinister taking place:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3802497/posts?page=45#45
There are many more sinister things taking place! On that we agree.
I do understand Feldman’s point. And I even agree to a point. But it feels like hair splitting. I am no lawyer. But my plain reading of the Constitution is that a POTUS is impeached when so voted by the House, and removed if convicted in the Senate.
No matter what, it will be argued both ways now and in the future because no House has ever been so callous about impeachment in the past. Ultimately I think they will have to file the articles in the Senate just because they will look even worse than they do now if they don’t - including by many in their own party.