Posted on 01/10/2021 10:12:08 AM PST by knighthawk
Donald Trump has started putting together a defense team for a second impeachment trial with Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz said to both be in the running.
Two sources told CNN Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney and the man who spearheaded the president's failed legal efforts to overturn the presidential election, is expected to represent Trump if the unprecedented event of a second impeachment trial materializes.
The sources said Trump is also considering hiring Dershowitz, the controversial celebrity attorney who represented him at his first impeachment trial in December 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Quite honestly, I think a team of lower-profile, highly qualified attorneys would be a better choice. But there will never be an impeachment trial - McConnell will never permit it before Jan 20, and after then it’s moot.
The headline is a lie; Trump has said no such thing, it’s just anonymous “sources” making the claim.
Dershowitz says its not possible to convict him as he will be a private citizen then and the Constitution only addresses he Presidency.
Never underestimate the treachery in Mitch McConnell’s heart.
They’ll never be a trial. The only person is just to further throw mud at his legacy by making him the only president to have two impeachment attempts. They’re just trying to smear the man and his legacy. Sad.
There’s be talk of an ex post facto impeachment 100 days after Biden is inaugurated.
> But there will never be an impeachment trial - McConnell will never permit it before Jan 20, and after then it’s moot. <
The Constitution is silent as to a time limit for an impeachment. So some legal scholars think an impeachment is possible even after the person has left office.
But why bother? Because after impeachment in the House comes a trial in the Senate. And if the Senate convicts, it can then hold a vote to bar the convicted person from federal office for life.
That might be the goal all along.
It’s not moot people they plan to wait 100 days to do it.
Might be?
If the democrats go through with this Impeachment threat, they will regret it the whole time they are in office. If Biden had any brains, he would tell Pelosi to back off.
These are democrats he's dealing with. Facts don't matter. (see election fraud, Ukraine, Russia-Russia-Russia, etc.)
President Trump's team could present an ironclad case on his behalf, and the democrat-controlled House would impeach anyway. They know the Senate won't do anything before noon on January 20th, but if Pelosi, Schiff, et al., had any common sense, they wouldn't be democrats.
It will resemble Stalin’s Show Trials.
This is BS. There will be no second impeachment.
People still post articles with CNN as ne of the sources? Really?
The goal is not to remove him by impeachment, its to rub his face in the loss and the House can just order a floor vote next week, that is the impeachment.
The conviction of the indictment can come later next month, that would stop him from ever holding office again and deprive him secret service protection and other benefits he’d lose as a private citizen under impeachment and conviction by the Senate.
> Impeachment exists for the sole purpose of removing an office-holder from his position. <
I thought that too until recently. But then I did a little digging. The impeachment process actually has two purposes. One, to remove a person from a federal office (as you noted). And two, to bar that person from ever holding any federal office ever again.
That little-known barring thing has actually happened to a few impeached federal judges.
“John Roberts would preside at an impeachment trial. And I have to think that even he would rule that such a trial would be moot.”
I agree. In addition, Roberts is too concerned about his legacy to let this kangaroo trial go forward. It would be cool if he said they didn’t have standing.
Eff these aholes. FASCISTS never stop.
Impeach THIS.
Evil Bastards.
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