Posted on 01/15/2020 9:24:07 PM PST by bitt
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called for the recusal of four Democrat presidential candidates from the impeachment process against President Donald Trump on Wednesday after Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the articles.
Blackburn said in an emailed statement:
Tomorrow, one hundred United States Senators will be sworn in to serve in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Four of those Senators must recuse themselves for their unparalleled political interest in seeing this President removed from office.
These four Democrats, Senators Bennet, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Warren, cannot sit in judgment of the very President they seek to replace. To participate in this trial would be a failure of the oath they took to be an impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws. Their presidential ambitions prohibit their ability to view this trial through an objective lens.
In the email sent to her supporters, Blackburn noted:
In Andrew Johnsons impeachment trial, an objection was lodged against an Ohio senator who was next in line to become President, if Johnson were removed.
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By that standard, Blackburn and all the other 99 senators should recuse themselves.
Thanks Marsha - this adds to the insane activity column of the Dems.
This is payback for democrats saying Mcconnell should recuse himself. Both sides know either will happen, but I like Marcia throwing it out there.
At 80 years old, youd think pelosi would have enough toys.
Biden????? Good grief. Thank God hes not in government anymore. Thats the last thing wed need.
DemocRATS never recuse themselves from ANYTHING. That stupidity is left to republicans. Jeff Sessions are you listening? There would be no impeachment without that idiot’s recusal.
She appears to carry them in a couple big bags under the front of her dress??
Love Marsha, but no one ever said she was the brightest bulb in the Senate.
“the Democrats are focused on two things: undoing the 2016 election and impacting the 2020 election, (Hagerty)
EXACTLY RIGHT
They were already involved in the impeachment vote. Isn’t that exactly what they accused Trump of doing, interfering with a political opponent.
Recuse them from the vote but make them participate in the trial.
Me too, but in my version any senator who was running for prez against Trump, prior to or still, would be recused from the vote.
I agree, and the GOP should crow loud and long about it to make clear to the American public the hypocrisy of going after Trump over Ukraine, while the Rat presidential candidates effectively do the very same thing for which they accuse Trump. . . the Rats are ALWAYS guilty of the accusations that the level against others. They are evil, pathetic and sick.
Lol
Right, so we can go ahead and mark him off the list. :)
What I hate is that these imbeciles are so powerful and destructive. The problem is that millions of other imbeciles will follow them.
Most Democrat Senators SHOULD participate in a trial...as defendants.
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The RATs have been complaining that Republican senators can not be an impartial jury. OK, tell me, how many RAT congressmen in the house were impartial grand jurors in bringing the charges?
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