SCOTUS; No articles of impeachment or a trial are required for the Senate to acquit President Trump

The Post & Email ^ | 12/22/2019 | Sharon Roundeau

[SaxxonWoods]

Feldman isn’t trying to help the President. He knows the Senate can acquit immediately without waiting for Speaker Pelosi to transfer articles of impeachment, or for House impeachment managers to be appointed. This is because the Supreme Court has ruled – in the Nixon case – that how the Senate goes about acquitting or convicting any impeached person is non-justiciable, in that the Senate’s power is plenary and the Supreme Court may not even review it. This means that if the Senate acquits Trump immediately – without a trial – the Supreme Court has no authority, whatsoever, to review the Senate’s acquittal, and there isn’t a damn thing the House can do about it. Feldman is distracting the nation from understanding the full scope of Senate acquittal authority. He knows that if the House hasn’t impeached the President, the Senate could not immediately acquit him. This is why Feldman appears to be defending POTUS.

[V K Lee]

“Or, perhaps more amusingly, “deem” it dismissed!!”

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LOL Let it be written, let it be so.
Fancy Nancy has had her fingers in every scandalous plot seen in taking our freedom, money, lives and well being. She deserves to receive as good (or better) than she has given.
LOCK HER UP!

[1L]

>>The requirement for “transmission” is just a Senate rule, and nothing more.

The constitution allows for each house to set their own rules. See US Const. Art. I, Sect. 5, 2. Enforcing the rule, unless it violates another part of the constitution, is as good as a constitutional mandate in this case.

The Senate can and should simply declare that the so-called house alleged offenses are not treason, bribery, or high crimes or misdemeanors, and therefore not impeachable offenses. Thus, there is no impeachment and no need for a trial.