Posted on 01/31/2020 8:51:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
During the Senate impeachment trial Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts declined to read a question submitted by Sen. Rand Paul which included the name of Eric Ciaramella, the man RealClear Investigations has identified as the whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
The Kentucky Republican submitted the question card, and after reading it, Roberts replied, “The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted.” Paul’s question did not use the term whistleblower or identify Ciaramella as the whistleblower.
Senator @RandPaul sends question to the desk during Impeachment Trial.
Chief Justice Roberts: "The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted." pic.twitter.com/CCeB33HnRP
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 30, 2020
Paul then took to Twitter, disclosing his question. “My exact question was: Are you aware that House intelligence committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while at the National Security Council together,” Paul stated, “and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal house impeachment proceedings.”
My exact question was:
Are you aware that House intelligence committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while at the National Security Council together 1/2
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 30, 2020
Paul said his question was not in regard to the whistleblower’s ID, but about whether leftover partisan Obama officials conspired with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, now the head impeachment manager in the Senate, to devise an impeachment scheme prior to the beginning of the proceedings.
“My question today is about whether or not individuals who were holdovers from the Obama National Security Council and Democrat partisans conspired with Schiff staffers to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings,” Paul tweeted. “My question is not about a ‘whistleblower’ as I have no independent information on his identity.”
In the case of Roberts blocking Paul’s question, a broader issue looms about the equity of an unelected judge brazenly censoring an elected representative in the discharge of his senatorial duties.
Given Chief Justice John Roberts' censorship of a senator in the discharge of the senator's duties, the following question must now be posed on the floor: In the event a chief justice were impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, who would preside over his trial?
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 30, 2020
Paul, who during his time in the Senate has often broken with Trump on policy, has backed the president on impeachment, telling Politico he would force the upper chamber to vote on Trump’s preferred witnesses, including Hunter Biden and Ciaramella, if four or more of his fellow Senate Republicans sided with Democrats in calling for new witnesses.
“My first preference would be to be done with it as soon as possible and not to have any witnesses,” Paul said. “If they insist on having people like [John] Bolton coming forward, my insistence will be not just one witness. But that the president should be able to call any witnesses that he deems necessary to his defense.”
Roberts is a snake in the grass. What’s that closet homo use the bush Florida recount in 2000 as an excuse for The Supremes to put their finger on the scale. I don’t expect it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he decided that he got to break a tie.
Another reason to take the house in Nov.
If a supreme court chief Justice will eliminate the right to free speech to a sitting U.S. Senator, he will eliminate your First amendment rights too.
5.56mm
That’s also the first time I’ve heard his voice really. He sounds like a wuss, a weak sister
Roberts should be Impeached and removed from SCOTUS, but as usual, CONgress will not do their job and represent the USA.......just their off shore accounts.
You can rest assured that if the left retains the House and comes close to Obama era majorities in the Senate, Roberts and a whole lot of others will be impeached and even removed and replaced
Cogent question, props to Rand Paul.
The Chief Justice proves once again he is compromised.
BTTT
He seems to be good at that sort of thing.
Thanks for the link
Roberts has played an integral part in both the Kenyanesian Usurpation and the attempted coup against Trump, but he is a pawn, not the mastermind.
As of 14 October 2019, the members of the board of directors, in order of seniority, are:
Alan Apter (American)
Aleksander Kwasniewski (former President of Poland)
Joseph Cofer Black (American, and Mitt Romney's national security director, and former director of the Counterterrorism Center of the CIA)
Karina Zlochevska (daughter of the "surviving" 50% co-owner)
Christina Sofocleous (Russian)
Riginos Charalampous (Cyprus)
and Marina Pericleous (Cyprus).
Looks totally legit to me for a Ukraine energy firm with multiple investigations that have all been halted for one reason or another. 2011 was the year of the acquisition, and the car "crash". The UK investigation into their corruption allegations in 2013 was halted when Burisma failed to provide subpoenaed documents. The 2015 Ukraine investigation was halted when the prosecutors failed to meet some filing deadlines. The 2016 investigation was halted by Joe Biden and his billion dollars of US taxpayer money. The 2019 investigation has been halted by the US Congress attempting to Remove a sitting President for merely asking for more investigations into this sketchy firm.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. These are not the droids you're looking for.
Certainly nothing interesting enough for any major news outlet to do an investigative piece on. Ahem.
LOL, wrong thread. Mea culpa.
sine no one knows ‘who the whistleblower is’- how can the question be disallowed?
Republicans should hold a press conference and announce an investigation of Eric-
Does it really matter any longer what “we” think?
I mean, seriously!
This isn’t a conspiracy theory because it is clear now that the CIA is our modern day Praetorian Guard.
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