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Rand Paul: Trump Senate impeachment trial an 'illegitimate procedure' without John Roberts
Washington Examiner ^ | Jan 23 | by Andrew Mark Miller,

Posted on 01/24/2021 3:30:25 AM PST by RandFan

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To: databoss

Put everything on gold. Gold stocks, gold mine stocks, gold futures, gold bullion, gold coins. GTF out of wall street. RIOT’s still a good stock, though. So’s REGRF. Blockchain tech.


21 posted on 01/24/2021 5:28:16 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believed." Will Robinson)
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To: ArtDodger

I think the reason is because Roberts expects the impeachment to be challenged later, and when it gets to the Supreme Court, he would have to recuse himself if he had presided over it. He doesn’t want to lose his opportunity to vote against Trump when it would really count.


22 posted on 01/24/2021 5:31:00 AM PST by PUGACHEV ( Ins’t coming out of their pri)
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To: ArtDodger

Bingo! We have a winner 🏆


23 posted on 01/24/2021 5:44:41 AM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: RandFan

Start Filing Ethics and Contempt Charges against Pelosi and gang, Make CRIMINAL REFERRAL’S to the DOJ for PERJURY AND FRAUD


24 posted on 01/24/2021 5:45:25 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Eleutheria5
It’s an illegitimate procedure regardless

Correct !!!!

Congress had no authority to impeach and try a private citizen. Roberts has nothing to do with it. My question would be, why didn't Paul make this point?

25 posted on 01/24/2021 5:45:56 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Eleutheria5

As far as I’m concerned the constitutions already did. We do not have free speech because we are attacked. We do not if you have freedom from religion because we are now being attacked in our places of worship see Saint John’s church in Ohio. We do not uphold election law. Our Supreme Court does not choose to do its job because it doesn’t want to get into messy or political decisions. Our Supreme Court does not want to hear a case bought before it by the sitting president of the United States. So as a result we can talk about the constitution but as far as I’m concerned the constitution is already a document that is not nor will ever be followed again


26 posted on 01/24/2021 6:01:07 AM PST by genxer ( )
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To: RandFan

To speak of congressional legitimacy is laughable.


27 posted on 01/24/2021 6:03:11 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Bayard

Have smart phone cameras ready for immediate feed to Rumble and Chatdit. You Tube, too. Television cameras brought the civil disobedience movement into everyone’s living room. They cannot be relied on for this, however, as they have suppressed inconvenient truths in the past.


28 posted on 01/24/2021 6:04:25 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believed." Will Robinson)
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To: ArtDodger

Yes I’ve thought the same. They hate Trump alright but they got more important things to do like their agenda to carry out and while they don’t want to see him run in 2024, they have the insurance policy of cheating again.

So what gives unless they FEAR that it’s possible that the fraud might be fully exposed and therefore they have to removed him (the real current president) before that happens?


29 posted on 01/24/2021 6:07:53 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: genxer

The Constitution has been disregarded before. It survived to be adhered to more closely in later times. It will eventually again. But right now it’s being used as toilet paper, and this bogus impeachment is only one example.


30 posted on 01/24/2021 6:08:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believed." Will Robinson)
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To: riverrunner
The constitution gives them no power to impeach a person who is not a sitting president

I'm not sure about that, impeachment in England developed in the 1500s to give the Commons a way to BLOCK appointments by the King because they had not yet acquired the power to control who was in the government. So, initially, most men who were impeached were NOT sitting officials. The men who wrote in 1788 "The House shall have the sole power of impeachment" surely knew this.

However, it does not matter in this case because Trump was impeached while he was a sitting President, and the Constitution specifies,"the Senate shall have the power to try ALL impeachments".

31 posted on 01/24/2021 6:12:08 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: Eleutheria5

yeah, sure
worked out well in tianamin square


32 posted on 01/24/2021 6:14:03 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives )
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To: HighSierra5

“Those Commierats really want a war. Don’t they?”

perhaps they do, when every other militia member is an fbi informer


33 posted on 01/24/2021 6:17:47 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives )
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To: ArtDodger
Has anyone considered the reason for the dogged push to impeach Trump is that if the truth is admitted, and the dems did steal the election, then Trump is actually still president? If he is still the prez, then that explains their eagerness to impeach him again.

Exactly. This is the Dems insurance policy in case Trump wins his election challenges. If he does prevail, then the corrupt CJ must actually show up to preside over the trial. Senators truly dislike impeachment trials because it interferes with them entertaining lobbyists and collecting money. Not having the CJ preside and having Ho Harris preside over a sham trial after a sham election, would mean having a second trial later.
34 posted on 01/24/2021 6:19:35 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Eleutheria5

The “civil rights movement” worked because its opponents were, for the most part, decent Christian people.

In our situation, that is not the case. The Mahatma himself said that Satyagraha could only have worked against the British, that with either Hitler or Stalin it would simply have led to a bloodbath.


35 posted on 01/24/2021 6:22:12 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: Bigtigermike
I thought I read a post here somewhere that there are still court challenges to the recent election making their way through the system. The dems may be afraid that certain facts will be coming out during this process, and are thinking that if Trump is impeached all of these court cases will be rendered “moot” and shut down, thereby preventing these facts from coming to the light of day.
36 posted on 01/24/2021 6:24:22 AM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: RandFan

I see one silver lining.

This impeachment consumes all the time and energy of the Senate.
The senate does not confirm sleepy joe’s nominees and his Presidency is frozen.

I will take those days off his clock since President Trump is innocent


37 posted on 01/24/2021 6:25:11 AM PST by Steven Tyler (Postmaster General Steven Tyler)
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To: MRadtke

White males are being relegated to blue collar work or military service. White males may be able to make decent money but they will have careers where AC and heat during working hours is a luxury and enjoy no social status what so ever.


38 posted on 01/24/2021 6:29:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan

Chief Justice Roberts can be impeached for circumventing the clarity of the Constitution on this matter.

Tooling for the Leftists would come back to bite him and haunt the SC, when he’s then sued by Trump.

McConnell has no comment.

McTurtle should be canned by a Kentucky recall, if not impeached himself, by the Senate.


39 posted on 01/24/2021 6:30:03 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules/Academia -> The Farm team, for mor👏👏e Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: RandFan

No reason for a sham Chief justice to not preside over a sham impeachment.


40 posted on 01/24/2021 6:40:49 AM PST by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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