Posted on 01/24/2020 9:28:30 AM PST by maggief
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Yes, Rudy. Appeal this to the Supreme Court.
No crime? You must acquit.
Where does the constitution allow for an impeachment with no crime? “High crimes and misdemeanors”... misdemeanor is still a crime, a violation of the criminal code.
Totally agree. Rudy is surely right on this.
But I note that a few days ago, some Democrats (Schumer?) announced that it was fallacious to say that a president could only be impeached if he had committed a crime. The Democrat quoted the Constitution where it said “High crimes and misdemeanors” and explained that this covers a wide array of actions and not just crimes.
I admit his logic totally eluded me. But the media seemed to think he was making a great point (no surprise).
Like Tom Paine.
Schumer is just doing what a generation of lawyers have been doing to the US: changing the clear meaning of the words to get what he wants, not what the words clearly say.
He’s willfully misinterpreting the Constitution on an ad hoc basis. No one should be fooled. Referring to a misdemeanor as if it were a conversational term referring to behavior he doesn’t agree with is absurd. It has clear legal definition and meaning. He’s hoping the audience doesn’t understand that.
Exactly.
The Constitution--and thus US law--does not.
The Supreme Court is (by tradition) the judge of the Constitution.
To rule--as the Court not only should, but must--this sham "impeachment" unconstitutional--which it is--lets it stand as constitutional--de facto and de jure.
This violates the constitution and US law.
It violates the separation of powers by rendering the executive branch subservient to the legislative.
It violates the sanctity of the election process by giving the legislature the de facto authority to elect the President inasmuch as the legislature can impeach the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, etc., on down the line, for any reason or for no reason, until it comes to a President it favors, thus nullifying the results of any election at will.
To allow this sham "impeachment" to stand as law is to violate the entire legal basis of the US government and leave it dangerously vulnerable to exploitation.
The Supreme Court MUST act on this travesty.
Not just dismissed, declare them constitutionally DEFICIENT as articles of impeachment and NULLIFIED.
Then Trump can RIGHTFULLY claim he was not impeached.
They will argue that he was, but meh.
I agree.
What I find amusing is that Schumer is trying to redefine "misdemeanor" as "something I don't like" -- and his audience is Chief Justice John Roberts. I think it's a safe bet that Justice Roberts knows what a misdemeanor really is.
But Schumer plays to the cameras. The "impeachment" is theater. The actions of the Senate aren't his concern.
Pretty sure Dershowitz was hired to make this exact point.
Thanks for posting....glad Rudy is doing this, since the LSM refuses to report any of this.
Where does the constitution allow for an impeachment with no crime? “High crimes and misdemeanors”... misdemeanor is still a crime, a violation of the criminal code.
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Depends on what the founding fathers considered a “misdemeanor”. I doubt that were thinking of the 18th century equivalent of a parking ticket, violation of a noise ordinance, erc.
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