Posted on 01/28/2020 3:21:11 PM PST by lodi90
The court won’t involve itself where the senate has sole power to try impeachment, and the senate is not above the executive branch to breach separation of powers. It would take a full Supreme Court decision to decide such a stand off. Has never happened. Don’t see it going there now.
You should review what the constitution has to say, it’s very brief, and Dershowitz’s lecture from Monday evening.
This will all be over by Saturday anyway. I still say no witnesses will be called and Trump is acquitted. That’s my prediction and I’m sticking to it.
Enjoy yours,
“”””””””Trump had no right to stop aid which had been voted and approved by Congress. “”””””””””””””
He has every right to stop it until he checks it out.
So far as I can understand from public information, President Trump did NOT tell Congress he was withholding/delaying the funding. Therein lies the problem since it is the job of the Congress to vote/approve the funding. In the end after the President said the money would go forward in mid Sept., Congress had to rush to pass new legislation to allow Ukraine to use that money in Fiscal Year 2020 which was going to start in 2 weeks, October 1, 2019.
But there’s a process involved when the executive holds up funding allocated by Congress. It’s not impeachment.
I think the question is whether he has the right to stop the aid without informing Congress that he is going to do that. I do not know the answer to that question. At the least it is discourteous since members of his own party helped vote for that aid. Businesses in various Congressional districts were affected by these delays and some of them probably had GOP representatives who were apparently uninformed about this stop/delay.
You sound like a Democrat impeachment lawyer.
You are ignoring what power the constitution grants the executive regarding foreign policy, and you are reading into the constitution congressional powers that are not stipulated. Congress has the power of the purse, that is they can authorize and appropriate funds.
No where does it say that congress controls the time table of spending by the executive or even the power to force the executive to spend. They can take the money back if it’s not used, that’s about it.
We have over two hundred years of history to support the above. We have the hysterical cries of the impeachment managers to support your position.
The aid had to go out by the end of the fiscsl year on September 30.
It went out on September 11.
The rest of your post makes no sense at all.
Do you think Mitch called Romney and told him he had better vote with the conference?
Yeah, like we are all SO SHOCKED by his statement.
Totally agree. I'm curious to see how Leader McConnell gets this witness roster configured and if he can get up or down vote on the entire list. If successful, no witnesses will be called and charade this ends before the Super Bowl.
Hopefully you are correct. The only bright spot currently is it is Mitch against Romney, and I think Romney is as stupid as a rock.
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“”””””””Trump had no right to stop aid which had been voted and approved by Congress. “”””””””””””””
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He has EVERY right, is not obligation, to cease execution of non-Constitutional Congressional acts/bills/edicts+
I have YET to find *any* of the (D), whom were waving their mint-condition pocket-sized Constitutions around, that can cite A/S/C that authorizes ‘foreign aide’ via taxpayer $$
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Congress has the power of the purse, that is they can authorize and appropriate funds.
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You forget one *very* important point: ...as authorized by the Constitution (by what authority?). “Foreign aide” is not an authorized expenditure of taxpayer $$.
“Do you think Mitch called Romney and told him he had better vote with the conference”?
He probably did. But Romney is basically a Democrat MOLE so Romney will probably go against Mitch.
Not that I am a proponent of blanket foreign aide, singling out foreign aide as not part of foreign policy in the constitution is like singling out the space force as not part of national defense. Aide is a tool of foreign policy, even if you or I think it would be better spent elsewhere.
I would say not particularly close. But she knows, "where the bodies are buried." Some of those will continue to work against PDJT.
She's DS/SES and is in place as the Transportation Secretary as a plum for Mitch, IMHO. Her past experience made her a shoe-in for Senate Confirmation.
But any DS-related activity she would be involved with in her position will also definitely grind against PDJT's interests. Those exist and could yet become focal points to the president's detriment.
McConnell Says GOP Doesn’t Have Votes to Block Impeachment Witnesses
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I bet they’d have the votes if the primary witness called by the GOP was Hunter Biden. You’d see tons of Dems flock to block that.
Despite his best efforts, McConnell failed to bully and strong arm that stalwart Trump ally, Lisa Murkowski, into voting for more witnesses.
Indeed - get those courts loaded to the brim with far left jurists! That's the ticket!
That IS a part of letting it all go to hell! We aren't changing nothing by voting. Once you accept that, the political realm becomes a whole lot more clear.
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