Posted on 12/22/2017 6:23:18 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Selection of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) as the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee was the clearest sign yet of how seriously House Democrats consider the possibility of a full-blown constitutional showdown with Trump.
Nadler anchored his candidacy for his new position, vacated with the resignation of Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), on the 13 years he has spent as chairman or ranking Democrat on the panel’s Constitution subcommittee and, more recently, its courts subcommittee.
He also politely reminded Democrats in recent days of his efforts, beginning in the mid-1980s, to impede Trump’s efforts to develop portions of New York’s Upper West Side.
“There is nobody better prepared, if the president messes around with the Constitution, than Jerry Nadler,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
Nadler had the backing of most of New York’s 18 Democratic lawmakers, as well as many members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
After a failed 1985 mayoral bid, Nadler won his House seat in 1992 and became a force on the Judiciary Committee, particularly as a top defender in 1998 of President Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings.
“History and the precedents alike show that impeachment is not a punishment for crimes but a means to protect our constitutional system,” he said then in his opening statement during the committee’s proceedings. “And it was certainly not meant to be a means to punish a president for personal wrongdoing not related to his office.”
Nadler refused to attend Trump’s inauguration, saying Trump’s actions inflaming racial tensions made him “not legitimate” as president.
By May, after the firing of James B. Comey as FBI director, Nadler told CNN that there might be a “very strong case” for obstruction-of-justice charges against Trump.
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I don’t respect Nadler nor the WaPo.
5.56mm
Item 1 it was worse, sex with a subordinate meets the federal definition of sexual harassment.
Bottom line is now and hopefully well into the future Nadler and the Dems don’t have the votes to do anything even remotely related to impeachment or conviction/removal.
Yes, and so far as they're concerned, you're a traitor if you don't go along with it.
That and a dime will get them a cup of coffee—and probably a civil war...
I was floored once when a Democrat congressman was asked on what part of the Constitution government spending was based.
He said, “The Good and Plenty clause.”
It shows the chutzpah of those morons.
IMHO
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