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Report: Sen. Patrick Leahy Expected to Preside over Second Trump Impeachment Trial
Breitbart ^ | 01/25/2021 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 01/25/2021 10:18:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

See tagline. Banana Republics can do what they want, can they not? If in fact we are under a new government, why should our new junta rulers follow the silly old constitution of the former government?


21 posted on 01/25/2021 10:24:53 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This guy is one of the most vile people on the planet. When Cheney was VP and their was a Senate picture being taken Leahy was being his typical vile self and Cheney told him to go F himself in front of the whole Senate and photographer.


22 posted on 01/25/2021 10:25:03 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Which means the Democrats want to bar Trump from running in the future.

Great precedent this will set. If the GOP gets control of the Senate, they can bar Biden from running for re-election also.


23 posted on 01/25/2021 10:25:20 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: cowboyusa
Illegal. The Constitution says the CJ must preside. Clear case at SCOTUS.

"Constitution? We don' need no stinkin' Constitution!"


24 posted on 01/25/2021 10:25:34 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is the first president to win office without campaigning)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will one Republican senator raise a point of order against this or the unconstitutional trial to “remove” a president form office who is not actually in office? The case is moot.


25 posted on 01/25/2021 10:26:05 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Leahy is 80 years old—forget term limits—nobody over fifty years old should be allowed to serve in any public office higher than dog catcher!


26 posted on 01/25/2021 10:26:17 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where is the Chief Justice? This is his job. Has he resigned as Chief? Acting Chief Justice Clarence Thomas can preside instead.


27 posted on 01/25/2021 10:26:40 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Erik Latranyi

Actually, the Repubs could bar the entire Democrat party from running if they had a spine.


28 posted on 01/25/2021 10:27:15 AM PST by Wizdum
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To: basalt

Judge gets to vote twice!

Think of it as a Kangaroo Court in action.


29 posted on 01/25/2021 10:27:21 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everyone knows that this whole impeachment scam is phony and illegitimate. Leaky Leahy is the perfect clown to preside over it. It will only accentuate the illegitimate nature of the whole charade.


30 posted on 01/25/2021 10:28:07 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Ebenezer

The theory is he is now an Ex President so thus Roberts wouldn’t preside..

There is another theory- “relates back”

The theories are discussed in the Belknap issue.


31 posted on 01/25/2021 10:28:14 AM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: cowboyusa

What is this “Constitution” you speak of?—didn’t it get banned?...something about dead white slaveholders I think....


32 posted on 01/25/2021 10:28:44 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Leaky Leahy. One foot in the grave. As senile as Bidet.


33 posted on 01/25/2021 10:29:21 AM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds fair. Lyin’ paddy leahy. Sure no bias there. Hey paddy.....🍴💩


34 posted on 01/25/2021 10:29:49 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry, this makes this even more unconstitutional than it already is...

Senate Impeachment Trial must be presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court... You can’t substitute someone else... Sorry Dems...

Even more Banana Republic nonsense


35 posted on 01/25/2021 10:29:54 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

No, Roberts has decided (quite properly, IMO) that as Trump is not a sitting President is is not appropriate for a Supreme Court Justice to preside over such an event.


36 posted on 01/25/2021 10:30:28 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Sham “impeachment” with fake presiding officer.
37 posted on 01/25/2021 10:30:55 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t this guy get manhandled by the Joker and his goons in the Batman movie?


38 posted on 01/25/2021 10:31:19 AM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

It’s not his job. Trump isn’t President.

This whole thing is a can of worms and opens up all kinds of Constitutional issues that can and will be debated on both sides


39 posted on 01/25/2021 10:31:27 AM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They couldn’t find anyone more biased against Trump? What a Kangaroo Trial.


40 posted on 01/25/2021 10:31:46 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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