A frivolous impeachment is sedition
Wow! At least the Sanhedrin was a legal court!
Chief Justice Roberts declines to preside, for the logical reason that this is an “impeachment” (scare quotes) of a private citizen, not an actual impeachment of an actual president.There is nothing constitutional about the procedure; it merely is a marker that the Democrats are laying down that if Mr. Trump were to run and win again, they would not yield the WH to him. Entirely lawless. It’s also intended as a political cudgel against Republican senators.
But it’s kind of an honorary second term, in the sense that the only natural born citizens of America over the age of 35 and not eligible to be elected president of the US are two-term presidents and, in the conceit of this “impeachment,” Donald J. Trump.
Load up on the diapers!
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The Constitution specifies that the Chief Justice shall preside over impeachment trials.
Hell, I was hoping it would be Romney!
That is not what it says in the Constitution. The Constitution says that the chief justice must officiate the impeachment trial of a President. Nancy Pelosi says Trump should be considered a President and not a plain citizen. If that is true then it requires Chief Justice John Roberts to preside over the trial. It is either he is a plain citizen which cannot be impeached or he is a President and Roberts must oversee the trial.
What must happen is that the Republicans in the Senate must refuse to take part in an unConstitutional impeachment trial. They must refuse to be seated for this Schumer-Pelosi sham. The democrats have no legal standing to hold this trial if the Chief Justice John Roberts starts the ball rolling by refusing to take part. When Roberts refuses, the Republicans have every right to refuse. If Joe Biden was a real man, he would step in now and say to Schumer and Pelosi lets grow up and stop this nonsense right now.
Nothing screams credibility like changing out a supreme court justice for Leahy. 😆
Drip, drip, drip. Tyranny is growing by the day and we sit here doing nothing.
Two divisions of troops in DC to preside over the “peaceful” transition of power from a “free and fair” election. Honest people don’t need such protection.
An impeachment of a now private citizen. Sounds more like an inquisition by the Sanhedrin to me. The Congress isn’t supposed to be able to conduct sham trials of citizens.
Leahy can’t even find his way to the bathroom anymore. The fraudulent tottering old fool is a disgrace but he doesn’t care. He is too gone to care.
Hell, I was hoping it would be Romney!
This ludicrous ‘rat vendetta has now become too embarrassing even for Roberts to stomach!
How does this withstand the separation of powers?
Wouldn’t this give the Executive Branch the same authority against Congress should SCOTUS similarly stand down?
In their attempt to do “so”.
They are in REALITY declaring Donald Trump the ONLY current legitimate President of the United States.
Thank you!!