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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

Posted on 12/22/2019 11:21:30 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: house; impeachment; scotus; senate
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OK, somebody want to tell Mitch? What the hell is he waiting for?
1 posted on 12/22/2019 11:21:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: SaxxonWoods

51 Votes


2 posted on 12/22/2019 11:25:03 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I’d still request a writ of Mandamus forcing the House to hand it over. Our Government is set up so that when a fight breaks out between two branches, the branch that allies with the third wins the battle.


3 posted on 12/22/2019 11:29:48 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad; SaxxonWoods
51 Votes

Speaker McConnell either has 51 votes NOW, or he doesn't have a Republican Party any more.

Me and my friends won't be voting for the "lesser of two evils" in November 2020.

Yertle knows that. I watched his FULL speech on Thursday morning.

4 posted on 12/22/2019 11:30:03 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Mitch knows. It’s more fun to let Nanzi twist in the wind though.

The same ruling indicates, without directly saying it, that the senate can simply ignore it.


5 posted on 12/22/2019 11:30:35 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: kiryandil

So you will be voting for the greater if two evils then?


6 posted on 12/22/2019 11:32:41 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Doesn’t Trump want the trial?


7 posted on 12/22/2019 11:33:22 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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The buck never got here!


8 posted on 12/22/2019 11:34:09 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: kiryandil

Turtle BETTER damn well have EVERY pubbie on board EVERY ONE!!!


9 posted on 12/22/2019 11:34:46 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Any repub that isn’t on board will be voted out in the midterms for betraying the party


10 posted on 12/22/2019 11:37:59 PM PST by Bob434
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To: TigersEye
Mitch knows. It’s more fun to let Nanzi twist in the wind though.

My impression as well. By now everyone has looked at the House's case and knows it to be too ridiculous to take seriously. Make her wear it for all time. She deserves it.

11 posted on 12/22/2019 11:44:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Any repub that isn’t on board will be voted out in the midterms for betraying the party.

Note that even the lib Republican Susan Collins voted to confirm Kavanaugh.

12 posted on 12/22/2019 11:45:27 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I’ll be cleaning my guns.


13 posted on 12/22/2019 11:46:05 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Bob434

Many of these wishy washy senators are not up for re-election in 2020, I don’t think Mittens is up for re-election until 2022!!! WE have got to do something about the senate it is ridiculous that we have leaders on our side that might as well be Dems!!! NOTHING is ever done for fear of losing the Senate we lost the house AND YES it has been very painful HOWEVER I have NEVER seen our side of the house this unified, the RINO SWAMP was drained, LYIN RYAN and his ilk GONE!!!Getting the house back will be tough but not impossible AND if anyone can do it Trump can, RNC needs to get candidates that are NOT RINOS but Trump republicans!!!


14 posted on 12/22/2019 11:47:08 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Billthedrill

As long as Mitch does nothing all the pressure from the left will be on Nanzi Pantz.

“Are you going to send it over?” “What are you going to do?” “Can’t you go to the Supreme Court?”

She painted herself into this corner and for the first time in her career as Speaker she has no idea what to do.

Priceless!


15 posted on 12/22/2019 11:52:10 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Mitch would care one way or the other. None of them except maybe Jim Jordan want Trump in office.


16 posted on 12/22/2019 11:52:22 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: kiryandil
I’ll be cleaning my guns.

Again!?! You're gonna wear 'em out!

17 posted on 12/22/2019 11:54:03 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Dismiss forthwith, with (extreme) prejudice.
Or, perhaps more amusingly, “deem” it dismissed!!


18 posted on 12/23/2019 12:07:16 AM PST by dodger
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To: TigersEye
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19 posted on 12/23/2019 12:07:53 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

I only have the one I carry to clean. Lost the rest in my boat “The Tippy Canoe And Tyler Too”. I’m hoping Santa brings me another one. I’d bet the freshman Dems are hiding through Christmas. Oh and Merry Christmas to everyone. Come Ooohn Santa!


20 posted on 12/23/2019 12:19:43 AM PST by Equine1952 ((You can die on your feet or live down on your knees. You can not do both. Freedom Is not Free))
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