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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I don’t know where it stops but I don’t think 75+ million people will be happy if they try to stop Trump from running again. I think Roberts will recognize that and either stop the trial or conduct it in such a matter that it will be obvious there should be no conviction.
While I think the trial will fail, I do expect continued efforts to convict Trump at the state level or at least weaken Trump.
Where are you hearing that BS from? Could you go ahead with a conviction of a dead man that was indicted while he was alive?
the supreme court will find that Trump does not have standing
Schumer is trying to impress Hop Sing Xiden in hopes that Hop Sing will allow Schmucky to play with the hair on his legs for a while.
Let Elise Stephanik receive it, and rip it up in Nancy’s face.
Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder
Fantastic news - complete waste of time, leftists demoralized when it fails, and time suck against Geriatric Joe’s Socialist program.
Opportunity knocks. I wish someone other than Rudy was representing Trump, because a good lawyer could turn this into a trial of the election fraud.
They know it’s unconstitutional. It’s a distraction.
They don’t care, and nobody’s going to stop them.
It’s as if the news media has already made up its mind that an out of office official can still be held over for an impeachment trial, that is, a done deal with no ability to challenge it.
I’ve gone back and repeatedly read all the articles on impeachment in the US Constitution, and to me it is clearly written to say impeachment has one function:
To remove an office holder.
Former President Trump has a duty to challenge any trial because he is already out of office.
If the Senate formally goes through a trial without resolving this issue then they can do anything.
Will the Court even hear Trump’s argument? They must.
This returns me to my original thought above...
Are the media so sure that Trump won’t challenge or the Supreme’s won’t hear it, or are they purposefully omitting the idea because they’re stupid and want it to happen to what they perceive as a conquered enemy?
Ha! Rhetorical question!
Those two should be out of the party if they vote that way.
I think it would take something like 17 GOP Senators to vote to convict, and it’s highly unlikely they’d get that number.
It’s probably mostly symbolic, just an attempt to keep the crazy Dem narrative going and in the public eye. Eventually, however, I expect them to work on having some state or even federal prosecutor bring charges against him.
I don’t think they realize how much anger they are stirring up. Or maybe they just don’t care, since they think their show of force at the inauguration was enough to terrify the plebes and shut us up.
“That sounds logical” - Roberts
Yes, time management is important to winning
So apparently Pelosi has gotten over her brush with the unwashed masses and is feeling snug as a bug in her bubble again
Red meat for the base.
Well, that’s how they say “election” in China ...
No court would see Trump’s nor The People’s case regarding theft of a presidential election against us. No way is Trump entertaining giving these people the time of day.
It’s not Giuliani - he has a lawyer named Butch Bowers (?), IIRC, from SC.
Trump needs to be there live at the dog and pony show and called as a witness. There, he can spill his guts about the entire fetid cesspool in which each and everyone of those slithering bastards, posing as public servants, exist.
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