Posted on 12/07/2019 3:36:55 PM PST by jazusamo
Democrats have finally admitted the genius of our founding fathers, a big break from their usual descriptions of them as white supremacists. In a new report , titled Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, released Saturday, the majority staff on the House Judiciary Committee has attempted to expand the definition of what constitutes an impeachable offense so that seemingly any president throughout America's history would now be subject to impeachment.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler felt the need to write a forward attempting to explain why such a report is needed in the first place. While Nadler admits that other reports have already been produced, he quickly adds that recently, "however, legal scholars and historians have undertaken a substantial study of the subject," and while the "earlier reports remain useful points of reference," they "no longer reflect the best available learning on questions relating to presidential impeachment. Further, they do not address several issues of constitutional law with particular relevance to the ongoing impeachment inquiry respecting President Donald J. Trump."
In other words, what the founders and everyone else previously thought constituted an impeachable offense was a good start, but Democrats are going to take it a bit further. "There are at least as many ways to abuse power as there are powers vested in the President," the report declares. "It would be an exercise in futility to attempt a list of every abuse of power constituting high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” This is an admission that the Democrats can't specify exactly what the president did that was impeachable.
"The Framers were careful students of history and knew that threats to democracy can take many forms," the report warns. "They feared would-be monarchs, but also warned against fake populists, charismatic demagogues, and corrupt kleptocrats." Why bring Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren into this?
The report further notes the "Framers celebrated civic virtue and love of country; they wrote rules to ensure officials would not use public power for private gain." Like when a Ukranian energy company pays the son of the vice president's $50,000 to buy influence from his father?
After pretending to care about Democracy, the report then concludes that Americans simply cannot be trusted to take action in the next election. "No President is entitled to persist in office after committing 'high Crimes and Misdemeanors,' and no one who voted for him in the last election is entitled to expect he will do so. Where the President's misconduct is aimed at corrupting elections, relying on elections to solve the problem is no safeguard at all."
So this new report is just the Democrats' latest attempt to overturn the will of the American people in the 2016 election. When Democrats start wrapping themselves in the flag and start pretending to acknowledge the genius of our founding fathers, you can be sure the Democrats are planning to do something very unAmerican.
They’ll overturn any election outcome they don’t like.
If Trump gets elected to a second term, they will try again and again and again.
Like Rush warned us, they’re going to get rid of elections altogether.
As somebody or other said, probably with someone like Nadler in mind, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’
Bump!
Democrats are the last refuge of scoundrels.
So tired of being teased about the absolute for certain inevitability of Trump’s impeachment. Just do it already. The media has had the entire country on edge for 2 years, assuring us Trump’s gone. The media has promised that the evidence is overwhelming and Trump is going to be removed from office.
Promises, promises. No doubt about it. No question. Trump’s going down. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s been enough to cause ulcers, stress attacks, heart attacks, depression, etc. It will be a relief when the Democrat/media bullies finally do the deed.
Hey media, just go ahead and tell your Dim buddies it’s time. Don’t keep torturing us any longer.
The act of Impeachment itself may be constitutional, but the process whereby these Leftist vipers have used TWICE (first time was the debouched Mueller investigation) to launch such proceedings is unconstitutional, lacking articulatable reason suspicion or probable cause to move forward. These clowns have made it easier to investigate the President than to get a traffic ticket.
These clowns are third-world dictators and those who are not themselves impeached, convicted, and imprisoned, should be given a one-way ticket to such places.
Processes used to support the impeachment:
Subpoenaing witnesses, colleagues, etc.:
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The impeachment process is subject to this amendment also:
Amendment V
No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
The impeachment process is subject to the 4th & 5th Amendments.
The Constitution trumps and has authority over ALL federal activity (U.S. Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2).
“High Crimes and Misdemeanors” are crimes no matter how they are defined. Amendment 4 & 5 prevail over the House here.
“This Constitution, and the Laws [or “Acts”] of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof...shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
U.S. Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2
The States and the People via the Constitution created and limited the feds. The feds ONLY legitimate power and authority is that which is delegated and enumerated by the Constitution.
Amendments 4 & 5 supervise the impeachment process which in this case is patently unconstitutional.
Well said!
“The Framers were careful students of history and knew that threats to democracy can take many forms...”
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Which is precisely why they excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen requirement.
Nancy Pelosi falsified the forms that certified Obama as eligible.
No child of a foreign national is a natural born citizen.
They are themselves born foreign nationals even if born here.
Only citizen parents can produce a natural born citizen.
I know...facepalm.
Then, the sealing of so many of his records (birth, schools, visas, Selective Service).
Then, the totally irregular 2008 DNC convention’s early morning phone ‘vote’ of the delegates in their hotel rooms, rather than by state at the hall. Remember how TOTALLY pissed off Hillary and her campaign staff were?
We’re going to change the high-hurdles into the low-hurdles, but kept the qualifying time the same
Release it on a Saturday?
Seems pretty rushed.
Thank you jazusamo for actually reading the post.
Where are the other FReepers that should be echoing the same patriotic call for re-institution of the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land over the feds and restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic?
1 hearing. No fact witnesses. At what point do the mindless Democrat Fascist Party propaganda bots in the Fake News wake up to what a clown show this actually is and just how much damage they doing to themselves pushing this idiocy?
You’re absolutely right.
This caper by Nadless certifies beyond a doubt what a total clown show this has been, but they don’t care.
Their minds were made up long ago that they were going to impeach Trump no matter that there’s no grounds for it.
Fortunately they’ve overplayed their hand and they’re going down in flames in the upcoming election.
That's too rich. The People can't be trusted to make the "right" decision. I hope to see these MF'rs swing from lampposts.
They are attempting to pervert Impeachment into a recall vote.
Lowering the bar on what a crime is, so that the president can be impeached for littering if he misses the trash can while discarding a piece of paper.
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