Posted on 01/22/2021 7:58:11 AM PST by Ebenezer
The House will deliver the impeachment article against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday. The action will start the process for the second trial the ex-president has faced for charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. While Trump has already left the White House, the Senate can vote to bar him from holding office again if it chooses to convict him. The House earlier this month charged Trump with inciting an insurrection against the government by inflaming a mob that overran the Capitol on Jan. 6. The riot, which disrupted Congress' count of President Joe Biden's electoral win, left five dead, including a Capitol police officer. Speaking after Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed concerns that Trump would not have enough time to mount a defense. He had asked the House to send the article on Thursday. Trump has hired South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers to defend him during the trial.
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We don’t need no stinking laws.
Will USSC Chief Justice John Roberts preside over an unconstitutional trial?
My money says yes.
One to get rid of Trump and another to get rid of Biden.
The dems can't impeach a past president, and the Republicans can't impeach a president who is not really president.
Kabuki much?
How do you impeach a private citizen? Isn’t that a Bill of Attainder?
Unity... isn’t it wonderful?/s
Unconstitutional. Trump is out of office.
Good, any Republican voting to convict would be committing political suicide.
Democrats still barking at the wind
There is ZERO possibility with the current composition of the House to have an impeachment bill of Biden move forward. Even if SlowJoe is still around in 2023 when the House likely tips to a Republican majority, it’s not gonna happen.
Wasn’t he impeached in the House, while still President?
My understanding is that as long as he was impeached by the House while President, the Senate can hold the trial at anytime, even if he left office, with the purpose of banning him from holding office again.
Republicans are already saying they will not vote to convict, outside of the usual gang of idiots, like Romney and Murkowski.
They’ll be well paid to do it.
This is how unity is accomplished? Schumer and McConnell should be removed from office. Why don’t they impeach Obama, Clinton and Bush while they’re at it.
Will Nancy request machineguns?
Look at this
As usual, people can interpret things according tho their subconscious- or conscious - wishes. I hope Trump can get good representation, since Bondi and all have begged off and anyone who does take the job will be blacklisted. This is what we have become.
Trump needs to get this in front of the US Supreme Court right now. Congress can not pass a bill of attainder.
“My understanding is that as long as he was impeached by the House while President, the Senate can hold the trial at anytime, even if he left office, with the purpose of banning him from holding office again.”
That is their wish, but I think they are making up the rules as they go.
This will probably end up going to the supreme court.
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