Posted on 01/17/2021 11:19:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Lindsey Graham said if the Senate doesn't dismiss the impeachment article against President Trump, national healing could be delayed "indefinitely."
The South Carolina Republican urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will soon become the majority leader, that a Senate trial for Trump's second impeachment would be an "unconstitutional act of political vengeance."
"In your first act as Majority Leader, rather than begin the national healing that the country so desperately yearns for, you seek vengeance and political retaliation instead," Graham wrote in a letter sent Sunday.
Graham added that the impeachment of a president no longer in office will potentially leave the country eternally divided.
"We will be delaying indefinitely, if not forever, the healing of this great nation," he said.
Other allies of Trump have echoed Graham's calls that the second impeachment is "unconstitutional."
Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that there's precedent to suggest a president shouldn't be impeached once they leave office.
The Harvard Law professor cited there was no effort to impeach President Richard Nixon once he left office and a failed effort to remove the secretary of war in 1876. He claimed there is no jurisdiction to put Trump as a private citizen on trial.
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Nowadays they lower the flag if someone gets a paper cut.
It is that last one a disagree with most vehemently.
Yes I’m sick of the half mast for every Tom, Dick, and Harry too.
It’s not Reagan’s fault per se, but I think a lot of this goes back to the Challenger tragedy, and how the press called Reagan the “Consoler in Chief”, as if that was what a President is there for, it set the expectation going forward that it was the main job for the President.
Yes. And I don’t in any way belittle the guy’s death.
But we have people whose deaths are just as significant and even more so, dying in the service of our country.
The only reason this guy is honored in this way is because he is a political football.
If you told me that the flag was at half mast today because of the death of our Democracy, that would be far more fitting.
Yes...that is a valid view.
I will say, I could almost understand the Challenger Disaster, though. It was unique, significant, and traumatic to our nation.
Trump signed this, and I disagree with him doing so.
Yes.
Been praying, along with others, that God expose the miscreants, who would destroy our way of life.
They are beginning to expose themselves and their agenda.
Laws are coming, not to stop blm/antifa, but us.
Pray the eyes of the decent people be opened to see that evil you speak of!
Take care........pilgrim
>>>In Islam, they have what is called The House of Peace and The House of War.
The House of Peace is where everyone is either a muslim or muslim convert completely under the thumb of Islam in Islamic lands, and those who aren’t, pay a tax for the privilege of being allowed to live among muslims as second class citizens.
The House of War is everyone and everywhere else.
Unsurprisingly, that describes Leftists exactly.<<<
How true!
Also describes the house of satan. I believe this is inspired by him, through his demonic-rat disciples and the squad, who, in my opinion, serve the same master, through another group! (Ooops, wrong thinking! Reprogram!!)
We the d-rats, rinos and conservatives used to be unified in support of the America of yesterday. Now they want it destroyed! Asking for ‘unity’ behind the destructive agenda. Sorry, no.
Thought crime has inched it’s way into the political arena and enforced by the legal authorities. It will be worse soon.
biden, wants boys in girls facilities. Never thought that day would come to America.
Take care........pilgrim
I’m seeing magnetic flags turned upside down on vehicles around here.
For all the propaganda to the contrary, only one person was killed during the Capitol building protest, the unarmed, peacefully protesting Ashli Babbitt.
And Ashli was killed by a law enforcement officer.
Resist the usurper!
There is never going to peace with the antichrists.
Unless a new party is formed I will not vote for a Democrat or Rino.
Right. I don’t have money to throw around, but I will donate to his primary opponent, or even at this point to his Democrat opponent. Frickin’turncoat.
There cannot be healing without atonement from the swamp creatures. Not happening.
Thank you Mr. Obvious.
LOL, PC ThoughtCrime there, Pilgrim! See you in PC Hell!
(That’s okay, it will be a fine time there, at least there won’t be any Leftists)
I am taking down my American flag on Wednesday morning.
I won’t turn it upside down, but neither will I give anyone a ration of crap who does. Everyone has to work it out in their own way.
I know. They are just setting the narrative, as they can do with their monolithic control of Media, Big Tech, Entertainment, Education, and now, Government.
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