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Senate Impeachment Trial LIVE - day 8

Posted on 01/29/2020 8:47:07 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Senate Impeachment Trial LIVE - day 8


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachment; impeachmenttrial; senate; trial
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To: Uncle Sham

no


1,341 posted on 01/29/2020 6:39:53 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life)
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To: McGavin999

they should mic him up tomorrow. he moves around too much for that system


1,342 posted on 01/29/2020 6:40:01 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: All

Hannity humiliating Bolton tonight. Good stuff. Ha ha. Just desserts.


1,343 posted on 01/29/2020 6:40:51 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Repeal The 17th

What did he say?


1,344 posted on 01/29/2020 6:40:53 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: newzjunkey
Our side better review the tapes and have a coordinate plan for tomorrow.

Somehow, I doubt it.

-PJ

1,345 posted on 01/29/2020 6:41:29 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: RummyChick

it is not senate’s job to fill in the gaps that framers left as per D.


1,346 posted on 01/29/2020 6:41:32 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Dershowitz is in a league of his own.


1,347 posted on 01/29/2020 6:41:55 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: RummyChick

He was talking to S. Collins, Murkowski, Alexander and SPECIFICALLY Romney


1,348 posted on 01/29/2020 6:43:57 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Uncle Sham

He said that judges are appointed for life,
and the only way to remove a corrupt judge was through impeachment...
but the President of the US was not appointed for life,
and could be removed by election every 4 years.


1,349 posted on 01/29/2020 6:44:29 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life)
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To: Repeal The 17th

He made a comment that sounded like “a corrupt Louisiana judge”. We need a transcript of his remarks.


1,350 posted on 01/29/2020 6:47:08 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: smvoice

Totally agree!


1,351 posted on 01/29/2020 6:48:06 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: basalt

Doing what we the people hired him to do!


1,352 posted on 01/29/2020 6:49:10 PM PST by Musketeer
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just saw a picture of Jill Biden campaigning in Iowa...at a bar, standing next to a pool table....10 people were there....sad.


1,353 posted on 01/29/2020 6:49:38 PM PST by basalt
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To: Right_in_Virginia

This Q&A is great TV....you hear and see both sides and easily pick out the best and worst....those who know what they’re talking about and understand it....and those who avoid speaking about the issues they’re questioned about because they won’t or can’t answer.

Shiff and Nadler still trying to be political stars.


1,354 posted on 01/29/2020 6:51:48 PM PST by caww
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To: basalt
Dershowitz missed an example with his fire a gun.

You intend for the target person to be incapacitated or killed.

Your motive might be robbery. What he skipped as a contrasting motive is self-defense.

So his argument or theory that motive isn't relevant will eventually fall apart given the vast range of human conduct and law.

Where he is right is on the application of motive or intent or any other state of mind to Trump's relationship with Zelenskyy. The ACTIONS might be impeachable, but as long as there is a national interest to the ask, the ask is fine. Likewise with pressure (stick) or promise (carrot) sort of things. All that is in POTUS wheelhouse.

1,355 posted on 01/29/2020 6:52:31 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Uncle Sham

Yes, he said something like:
“how else do you remove a corrupt Louisiana judge”.
You may need a transcript, but I do not.


1,356 posted on 01/29/2020 6:52:56 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life)
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To: Uncle Sham
Dershowitz began by citing a number of judges who had been impeached and removed from office. The most recent was G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., Judge, U.S. district court, Eastern district of Louisiana, impeached and removed in 2010.

-PJ

1,357 posted on 01/29/2020 6:53:59 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Cboldt
What he skipped as a contrasting motive is self-defense.

He did say that in some cases motive is important, but he didn't dwell on it because it wasn't germane to his point about intent.

The intent was to kill, regardless of the motive. The motive isn't on trial, just the intent to kill.

Transferring to impeachment, the intent was to root out corruption regardless of whether there was a motive to gain an advantage in the election.

-PJ

1,358 posted on 01/29/2020 6:57:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Uncle Sham

Are you somehow offended because judge Porteous was from Louisiana?
Hell, I’m offended that Jimmy Carter was from Georgia!


1,359 posted on 01/29/2020 6:57:50 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thanks. It still remains that Schitzz insulted Louisiana rather than simply name the individual judge.


1,360 posted on 01/29/2020 6:57:53 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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