Posted on 01/10/2021 9:09:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We will just change the name: God Bless the USA Rallies.
Imagine if the left had read the Constitution, a document they swore to uphold and defend?
Dersh's point is correct but it doesn't actually say that in the Constitution.
As if the Democrats what Constitution and law says.
The Democrats are now the law and you are either with them or a “domestic terrorist.”
This push to silence President Trump, to impeach him or remove him from office using the 25th Ammendment and all this other over the top nonsense with just ten days to go makes one wonder what they are so worried about. And if you look at that “consession speech”... it does not concede anything.
President Trump has something up his sleeve and they all know it... most of the rest of us seem to be in the dark.
It really seems to be well beyond their usual nuttiness. This is instigating a big firestorm when they don’t need to do anything at all.
Change the name of the rally to “Joe Biden is our savior” and let them call THAT terrorism.
“And the Constitution specifically says, ‘The President shall be removed from office upon impeachment.’ It doesn’t say the former president. Congress has no power to impeach or try a private citizen, whether it be a private citizen named Donald Trump or named Barack Obama or anyone else,” he said.
Looks to me like Dershowitz did more than merely "suggest."
Journalists these days!!!
Regards,
You can’t change election law during an election but here we are.
Belknap resigned with the intent of evading the impeachment process. President Trump is not resigning. His term is ending. That’s the determining difference between the two.
Look at all of the pearl clutching here. ;D
You know that the Democrats have no reason to impeach and will not be able to convict in the Senate. The whole mess is a Democrat drama to keep their stupid working class faction mesmerized for now. They don’t want poorer Democrat voters (who hate their ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends and fathers) to realize that they voted to enslave themselves and lose some of their most important freedoms to plutocrats.
A related problem for us is that some Democrat infiltrators have too many of the dimmer minds on our side mesmerized with even more stupid dramas.
Anyway, some of the more intelligent Democrats know that they’ll be facing the consequence of a great and terrible backlash for their current politics of hatred and criminality. They’re only trying to hang in there for today.
The impulsive majority of Democrats are simply behaving like spoiled rotten children, addicted to bothering others but insatiable and unhappy. Notice them acting like they’re going to collide with you while driving on some days. Many of them are addicted to drugs, prescribed or illicit and unhealthy. Others have unhealthy sex addictions but have become fatter and uglier. That’s why they’re acting like zombies of some sort.
Many of them blew some of their own rights away by being busted or repeatedly high/rollin’/hallucinating/jonesin’ and strung out. Camel Lips and her nanny/police state crew has a surprise for them (busted again, ha).
Good riddance. Sayonara, addicted harpies, and your illegitimate, crazed adult kids, too. Go ahead. Run with that rage and gluttony. Keep looking for that feel-good! Faster!
Even if Trump doesn’t have anything up his sleeve it’s fun to watch them squirm like a snake under a heavy rock on it’s head.
Yep - he still leans left but is honest...a true rarity.
What would stop new majority leader Schumer from calling back the senate and changing the rules to force an immediate impeachment trial?
In fact comrade Schumer could probably rule that the senate does not need to hold a trial and just vote Trump guilty as charged as the evidence provided by the House is overwhelming.
These are truly dark times!
If the dems want to do this, they will. There’s nothing to stop them. Getting two thirds to convict in the Senate is another matter but nothing is certain.
Yes. I don’t know of any others who were impeached after resigning or otherwise leaving office, but several have resigned or left office after impeachment but before the conclusion of the trial, which would be the situation with Trump.
I don’t know of any in which the trial automatically ended, and the Senate has repeatedly taken the position that it still has jurisdiction to try and convict a former officer. The first time this happened was Sen. William Blount who was impeached in 1797 and then expelled from the Senate before he could be tried. He moved to dismiss on two grounds: (1) Senators are not “officers” subject to impeachment, and (2) he is no longer an “officer” because he was expelled. The Senate dismissed on the first ground, not the second.
The most recent was Judge Kent in 2009. A couple weeks after he resigned, the House passed a resolution instructing the managers merely to inform the Senate that it “no longer desires to urge” the articles. The Senate accepted that and dismissed.
As far as I can tell, the Senate has never acknowledged that it lacked jurisdiction to try and convict an impeached former officer. But it has also never convicted a former officer, so no one has ever had a reason, or standing, to challenge this in court.
I can think of an argument or two against it, probably based on the bills of attainder clause, but you have to get pretty deep in the weeds to get there. Regardless, it is not at all clear that Dershowitz is right, and the Senate has historically disagreed with him.
They’ve read it, but it’s like Kryptonite to them.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to realize that this horrible possibility might just come to pass.
What’s your view on getting seventeen republicans to convict? With Trump completely isolated now and unable to defend himself in the court of public opinion, and a hostile media universally aligned to purge him, I expect future “bombshells” alleging impeachable offenses. One hundred days is plenty to have US attorneys file criminal charges. I fear that the GOP will be happy to rid themselves of Orange Man Bad.
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