"It matters not. The are above it, and own you since your birth."
Posted on 01/16/2021 10:03:32 AM PST by blam
President Donald Trump did not commit any impeachable offenses, but the House violated the Constitution to suggest he did and are, ironically, immune from reprisals, according to constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax TV.
"We are hear that the president is not above the law, but Congress is not above the law – when Congress impeached the president earlier this week, they committed six independent violations of the Constitution," Dershowitz told "Saturday Report."
"They violated the free speech provision. They violated the impeachment criteria. They violated the bill of attainder. They violated due process, on and on and on."
Ironically, lawmakers are protected from legal culpability from their congressional actions, so unlike they are doing with the president, they cannot be sought for the allegations against them.
"But the only sanction is to vote them out of office and to bring them to trial in the court of public opinion," Dershowitz told host Carl Higbie. "Senators and congressmen are immune from lawsuits for what they do or say on the floor of the Senate, so there can't be any personal lawsuits.
"And I wouldn't favor recriminations."
All House Democrats and 10 Republicans impeached the president for the second time this week for inciting the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, but the president's pursuit of an Electoral College challenge is not grounds for impeachment, Dershowitz noted.
"How can you impeach a president for a speech that is constitutionally protected?" he lamented.
Ultimately, impeachment should die in the Senate as it did the last time, according to Dershowitz, a member of the president's first Senate impeachment trial team.
"The Constitution is very clear, the purpose of impeachment is removal," he concluded, adding the president will be out of office by the time a trial can be held,
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Laws are whatever DEMONCRATS say they are!
"It matters not. The are above it, and own you since your birth."
That’s like saying the sun rose this morning. Maybe we can have the house investigate itself.
Like they give a rat’s ass.
How many times now has Congress violated the Constitution? I’ve lost count.
How quaint. He thinks the Constitution still matters.
FAKE IMPEACHMENT MUST NOT STAND.
FAKE ELECTION MUST NOT STAND.
Thank you Alan. Now go drink your milk and eat your cookie!
I’m quite tired of lawyers and their pronouncements.
I think the Bad Guys are going to do what they’re going to do. We have no standing to stop them.
The Constitution does in fact matter second to God’s blessings.
when biden is taken out many of these scum congresscritters need to go as well...
LOL! What a great movie that is, that is Democraps to a tee. “It matters not, Biden is your King, Pelosi your Queen, now confess! Confess and this will all go away!” The English were nuts, what they did to Wallace was tame to the other stuff I read they use to do, like grill people alive. Literally grill them by chaining their bodies on a metal gridiron and slowly cooking them. It makes me wonder if severe brain damage was going around back then for them to do that.
It’s looking that way. Pelosi has so damaged and diluted the tool of impeachment it can hardly be taken seriously again. But that’s what they wanted.
In Clinton impeachment he quite literally violated the law by lying under oath.
Trump impeachments have been for political grandstanding. Just like how COVID relief is suddenly a priority for the left after the election but they delayed and obstructed throughout the summer and fall. The press parrots the propaganda of Pelosi now but did not hold her accountable then.
Fake news is still the enemy of the people.
“Thank you Alan. Now go drink your milk and eat your cookie!”
I think Alan deserves cookies since he correctly points out the Demonrats and Deep State neocon GOPe violated the Constitution six times with this rubbish.
I think he said the same thing the last time.
Academia has no power in Congress. Rule of law has no power in Congress. Rule of law is claimed no matter what happens.
A majority of Congress says Trump is a danger, a violent insurrectionist, and his followers are too.
Make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing the nature of the government.
We have our share too. Salem witch trials. That was conducted by the government of the day.
Government do not give up power without a fight. But of course, violence is always bad. So says the government.
“The Constitution is very clear, the purpose of impeachment is removal,” he concluded, adding the president will be out of office by the time a trial can be held,..
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I hate to keep quoting Orwell, but it keeps fitting...
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
(1984)
How cute. Isn’t it?
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