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Democrats Shut Down Senate Trial for Mayorkas Impeachment Charges
Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2024 | NEIL MUNRO

Posted on 04/17/2024 1:20:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Democrats voted unanimously to shut down the Senate trial of President Joe Biden’s impeached homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas.

The first vote of 51 Democrats to 48 Republicans, with one non-voting Republican senator, was reported at 3:18 p.m. on Wednesday.

The vote, initiated by Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), declared that the first article of impeachment was “unconstitutional” because the charges against Mayorkas did not rise to the impeachable level of “high crimes.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachment; mayorkas; senate; trail
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To: Openurmind

and in return the house moves Heaven and Earth to pass all their priorities. This has become so ridiculous. It probably should be Speaker Jefferies. This is not divided government and no one should pretend it is.


21 posted on 04/17/2024 2:29:36 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: clearcarbon

HE’S NOTHING BUT A COURT JEW WORKING FOR EMIR OBAMA!


22 posted on 04/17/2024 2:30:56 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”.


23 posted on 04/17/2024 2:40:14 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What concerns me is that we haven’t learned from the Democrats mistakes. We repeat the same errors as they did against us Republicans.
They made two impeachments against Trump in a short 4 year period which evidently they KNEW would fail in the Senate. So why even bother?

In the public eye, it made Democrats look like vengeful fools, more inclined to sow discord rather than taking the time necessary to govern a nation with efficiency.

Likewise, our impeachment attempt of Mayorkas had zero chance to pass the the Senate. So again, why even bother?

And now we try to eat our own for the second time as Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to eliminate the House Speaker, AGAIN! Trump’s full support for Mike Johnson is based on intelligent reasoning. He knows we must stop the infighting, right now.

This mad Republican masochism displayed in Congress must stop. When will we use Congress to govern instead? We are incapable of bringing results.

Republican congressmen, more efficiency please.


24 posted on 04/17/2024 2:45:35 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: wiseprince

It is a Cabal... A Mafia... Everything is scripted and choreographed to make us think they actually care about the people.

THEY DO NOT AND NEVER WILL.


25 posted on 04/17/2024 2:49:48 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Couldn’t find name of rino non voter.

Who was it? Mitturd?


26 posted on 04/17/2024 2:50:49 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats WANT OPEN BORDERS.

VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT.


27 posted on 04/17/2024 2:53:57 PM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock them up.)
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To: thinden
Lisa Murkowski voted Present.

-PJ

28 posted on 04/17/2024 2:58:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Openurmind

“Full blown Communists. They just shut down the Constitutional authority and rights of the house. And in turn the Constitutional representation of the people.

May as well just send them all home. They have been rendered useless and powerless.”

BTTT


29 posted on 04/17/2024 3:00:37 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? You ain’t smart.)
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To: Jane Long

“McConnell is Leader of the DEP ... Democrat Enabling Party.”

BTTT


30 posted on 04/17/2024 3:03:09 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? You ain’t smart.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

BITCH


31 posted on 04/17/2024 3:04:42 PM PDT by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I really want to go that alternate dimension and live there.


32 posted on 04/17/2024 3:10:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: themidnightskulker; Openurmind

R’s should press the Supremes to weigh in on this. If they hear it, it’s likely they will reflexively reply the Constitution permits the Senate to make its own rules. It’s important to get that on record, so if Trump is impeached again, a republican Senate will be free to dispatch it using this new tactic.


33 posted on 04/17/2024 3:11:14 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: DesertRhino
But no, McConnell let the crap drag on for several months.

It lasted 12 days.

34 posted on 04/17/2024 3:11:58 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“R’s should press the Supremes to weigh in on this.”

They will threaten and promise but I really doubt they will. They have now set a pretty solid pattern.

“If they hear it, it’s likely they will reflexively reply the Constitution permits the Senate to make its own rules.”

Or they will rule that “in this particular case” the Senate was right. They keep coming up with “yes but no” rulings that renders themselves immune from discretion and doesn’t actually settle anything.


35 posted on 04/17/2024 3:24:35 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The double standard’s always in play for democrats and NEVER in play for Republicans.


36 posted on 04/17/2024 3:26:03 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

It was from December 15th to Feb 5th. A full 7 weeks. And that does not include the part from September till December as the house slowly conducted it’s “hearings”.

McConnell slow walked it.


37 posted on 04/17/2024 3:57:10 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

“It was from December 15th to Feb 5th. A full 7 weeks. And that does not include the part from September till December as the house slowly conducted it’s “hearings”. McConnell slow walked it.”

I’m sorry, that is completely incorrect. Pelosi and the Democrats didn’t even forward the impeachment articles to the Senate for them to act upon until Mid January. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-democrats-walk-articles-of-impeachment-to-the-senate

And the Senate obviously had no control over the House holding their sham hearings.


38 posted on 04/17/2024 4:52:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: 1Old Pro

Balls on a priest? Tits on a bull? An extinguished candle at midday? Money on a deserted island? A fart in a wind tunnel?


39 posted on 04/17/2024 4:57:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Openurmind

“If they hear it, it’s likely they will reflexively reply the Constitution permits the Senate to make its own rules.”

That is what the Constitution says, whether we like it or not.


40 posted on 04/17/2024 5:01:25 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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