Posted on 02/08/2021 7:40:16 PM PST by bitt
The Senate will kick off the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump this week, with Democrats pushing forward despite little to no GOP support for the effort.
The trial is expected to last no more than a week, as is preferred by both Democrats and Republicans in the body.
On Tuesday, House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), will debate Trump’s attorneys, David Schoen and Bruce Castor, on the constitutionality of the trial itself.
The trial marks the first time a former president has faced an impeachment trial, though Trump was still in office when the House impeached him.
That fact has raised considerable objections from Republicans over whether the trial itself is constitutional.
Starting Wednesday, each side will be given 16 hours to present their case.
Debate and a vote will also be permitted on whether to allow witnesses.
In the 2019 impeachment effort, then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declined Democratic requests to include witnesses.
This time, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump one week to the day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democrats filed a single article of impeachment, charging the president with “incitement of an insurrection.”
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I will be too busy to watch because I will be trimming my nails and washing my hair.
It’s moot, he no longer holds office.
Proof of that is the absence of the Chief Justice.
Correct.
Somebody post Bill Murray and the groundhog going over the cliff.
Forgive me for being a one act side show, but THIS IS NOT AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL!
Chief Justice John Roberts said that it is not an impeachment trial. Therefore, aside from being a dog and pony show sham, it will end up being a criminal trial that will try a private citizen for some crime, find him guilty and sentence him.
That presents two constitutional issues - and not the silly fantasy that the media keep hawking. First, I challenge anyone to find in the Constitution where the Senate has the authority to try a citizen for a criminal offense. They are specifically directed to refer criminal matters to the Dept of Justice. {The DoJ has already declined the matter as non-criminal.}
Second, when the Senate finds that citizen guilty they will sentence him. (That sentence is likely to be that he is barred from ever holding public office again.) The Senate will claim that that sentence has the force of public law. That act comprises a Bill of Attainder - a law passed to affect only one single citizen. A Bill of Attainder is also unconstitutional.
Hopefully SCOTUS will overthrow this whole dog and pony show. However, the 'rats and their traitorous fawning media will tell the public that their stage act is all legal and binding and that Donald Trump, his son's and daughters and his grandchildren into the tenth generation are all bound by their brilliant scheme. sigh
I hope they start with the black national anthem.
Will they take a knee for the unarmed woman who was shot and killed by a security gurard?
As the country swirls down the bowl dying by a 1000 EO’s, edicts and Swamp flood.
It’s called a royal flush.
WHY???
I’ll be picking rocks out of my car tires and reee arranging my sock drawer.
You’re right, and I hope Trump revenges his honor on those who’ve done him wrong!
Raskin is a red diaper baby whose father was a red diaper baby and whose family were Marxists. The fact that he is even in Congress proves the end of a Republic is already underway.
I’ll be watching paint dry. Heh
They’re everywhere in government. Started infiltrating in the fifties and never stopped. Only one cure, and nobody wants to go first...
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