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Lindsey Graham: A Senate impeachment trial will 'indefinitely' delay national healing
Washington Examiner ^ | JANUARY 17, 2021 | MICA SOELLNER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: rlmorel

You may see me in ‘PC Hell’ but have determined to make heaven my home!

Just a ‘pilgrim, a stranger while here on this earth, I roam.”

Citizenship is in heaven, thank you God!!!

Ready to go, just not volunteering at the moment! :^)

Take care........pilgrim


81 posted on 01/17/2021 2:47:15 PM PST by pilgrim
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To: rlmorel

Starting Wednesday I will start referring to it as “Amerika”.


82 posted on 01/17/2021 2:49:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Healing?.....he’s kidding right? HE’s such a wimp ..and stupid.


83 posted on 01/17/2021 3:10:53 PM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There will be no healing nor unity.

JoMa


84 posted on 01/17/2021 3:14:14 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89

I see boxcars full of dead people.


85 posted on 01/17/2021 3:14:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: rlmorel

Heal this traitor linda!


86 posted on 01/17/2021 3:21:35 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: pilgrim

You take care also.


87 posted on 01/17/2021 4:07:48 PM PST by DoughtyOne (We are all to be treated like the Randy Weaver family and Banch Dividian folks now.)
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To: pilgrim

...and I agree with your take on things.


88 posted on 01/17/2021 4:08:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (We are all to be treated like the Randy Weaver family and Banch Dividian folks now.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Please STFU Graham. For once.


89 posted on 01/17/2021 4:10:28 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You cannot heal from a fraudulent election...


90 posted on 01/17/2021 4:11:10 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

They want to disenfranchise 75+ million voters.


91 posted on 01/17/2021 4:58:07 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: pilgrim
I think of it this way...

To us, truth is Heaven, and lies are Hell.

To Leftists, truth is Hell, and lies are Heaven.

Our Heaven is true, so that is where we will go, if we believe in Truth.

But to them?

Well, I am just beginning to read the Bible, and when I read this, I don't feel that conservatives have much to worry about in this respect, but I think the other side does:

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who turn darkness to light
and light to darkness,
who replace bitter with sweet
and sweet with bitter.

92 posted on 01/17/2021 5:42:06 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: dfwgator

I am licking my wounds right now, but those wounds won’t be eternal.

I will keep my powder dry.


93 posted on 01/17/2021 5:44:25 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: ronnie raygun

With Linda, it should be “Physician, heal thyself”


94 posted on 01/17/2021 5:46:05 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: rlmorel

Absolutely agree with your assessment! Then again, those sonovbitches have been busy watering down and rendering everything meaningless. From our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, status of United States Citizen and now our Vote.

Where do we go from here?


95 posted on 01/17/2021 5:53:32 PM PST by Howie66 (I Weep For Our Republic )
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To: Howie66

I don’t know, Howie66.

I just don’t know.

I have a long way to go before I can begin to effectively chart my course.

One thing I do fear, and they may have had this in mind, is that they have managed to turn a large portion of the conservative electorate against the Republican Party.

I have no idea if I can vote for a Republican again. I understand fully the arguments against a third party candidate and how they cannot win.

But I have a long way to go to vote for a party that by and large stabbed me in the back.

I fully expect to be stabbed in the chest by the Leftists. It is what they do.

I didn’t expect the knife in the back from people who I elected or trusted to guard our political capital we invested in them.

Shame.

Shame.

That wounds me far, far deeper than Trump’s loss.


96 posted on 01/17/2021 6:00:28 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: rlmorel

>>>Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who turn darkness to light
and light to darkness,
who replace bitter with sweet
and sweet with bitter.<<<

Yes! See that daily!


97 posted on 01/17/2021 6:04:42 PM PST by pilgrim
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