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Leahy, Not Roberts, To Preside Over Impeachment Trial
thehill.com ^ | 01/25/21

Posted on 01/25/2021 8:08:07 PM PST by Helicondelta

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To: Helicondelta

Isn’t a large part of Leaky Leahy’s constituency Muslim?


101 posted on 01/26/2021 12:05:20 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DoughtyOne

There really needs to be something done about these ‘lifetime’ Congressional positions. ...my gosh they should have retirement standards like the rest in the nation. Sheesh!.....
I listened to Leahy today and wondered if he’d even get his next breath!


102 posted on 01/26/2021 12:15:59 AM PST by caww (“For the people” and “For the children” - signals we're about to be scammed)
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To: Helicondelta

Even some old-style Democrats might feel queasy about this development.


103 posted on 01/26/2021 12:16:49 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: ladyjane
Well I've been certainly cutting down because there really isn't anything of interest to watch as this is all just the re-play and continuation of Obama and the Globalist Elite Agenda, so we all know where this is headed.

Further....the opposition is just re-playing their responses condemning, cnsuring this and that, objecting with no action.

104 posted on 01/26/2021 12:21:29 AM PST by caww (“For the people” and “For the children” - signals we're about to be scammed)
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To: Helicondelta

the constitution also says you can only impeach a sitting president

Trump is no longer president

Congress has zero power to try a private citizen


105 posted on 01/26/2021 12:25:13 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Helicondelta

The Democrat Party is the criminal party.


106 posted on 01/26/2021 12:54:23 AM PST by familyop
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To: Helicondelta

Leaky Leahy still lying


107 posted on 01/26/2021 1:58:59 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Helicondelta

Patrick Leahy (Vt.),most noted for leaking sensitive secret information to news outlets for years?
The same AntiAmerican piece of crap the stoopids of Vermont continue to send to the Senate.
Yeah boy him and Bernie sure make the good folks look like fools.


108 posted on 01/26/2021 2:02:21 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Biden family crime syndicate and Camel toe the whore. Leaders of the free world?)
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To: Helicondelta

The Commucrats don’t trust Roberts either.


109 posted on 01/26/2021 2:54:15 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Joe Biden: The best president Chinese money can buy.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Assume for the moment that this “sham trial” goes forward, does Leahy, as the presiding “judge”, having a vote in any of the proceedings?

It would appear to me that he would not have a vote because he is supposed to be sitting as a neutral party.

If I am correct, then the Senate will be divided 50 R’s and 49 D’s. Kamala can not vote, both because she is not presiding over the trial and because, if a vote is 50-49, there is no tie to break.

Any legal beagles out there that can respond to this issue?


110 posted on 01/26/2021 3:07:16 AM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: Helicondelta

Constitution, Smanstitution... it’s just a lot of “suggestions” written by rich old white slave owners.


111 posted on 01/26/2021 4:55:11 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: napscoordinator

He resigned to avoid impeachment. Not the same thing.


112 posted on 01/26/2021 4:56:28 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: DouglasKC

This is a tell that the Dems are more than willing to criminalize the political opposition


113 posted on 01/26/2021 4:58:05 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: wiseprince
Trump is and will be seen in the future as an American hero who fought tooth and nail to save the Republic when no one else would.

I'm skeptical this will be the case. The winners get to write the history. Libs own all publishing and academics. They are busy erasing and re-writing our entire history now.

114 posted on 01/26/2021 5:05:01 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: ladyjane

Yep.

National name brands fund the LEFTIST news media and all the other “WOKE” media. So I avoid them as much as possible.

The exceptions are brands that stand up to cancel culture.

GOYA
MyPillow


115 posted on 01/26/2021 5:07:44 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: Helicondelta

Why, is Judge Judy not available either?


116 posted on 01/26/2021 5:09:44 AM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Helicondelta

Why are the democrats and the RINOs even having a senate trial to convict President Trump? There is obviously no law anymore. Why the charade of pretending that there is? What can the people do about the loss of our country now?


117 posted on 01/26/2021 5:16:12 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Helicondelta

It is an admission that the whole process is outside the bounds of a Constitutional impeachment of a President, which the Constitution means a sitting President, not someone who is now a civilian.

As a process that is not in accord with the Constitutional intent and purpose of the impeachment process, the Dims can put Captain Kangaroo in charge and it won’t matter. They will get the Kangaroo verdict they want no matter what, and it will have no Constitutional meaning anyway.

Why do the Dims not care? They know that the only conviction that will matter for the most part is conviction in the minds of a majority of the sheeple, no matter how illegitimate it is.


118 posted on 01/26/2021 6:01:00 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Helicondelta

SHALL PRESIDE is the wording in the Constitution


119 posted on 01/26/2021 6:17:22 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Helicondelta

It must gall a never-Trumper like Cornyn to have to pose as a Trump defender.


120 posted on 01/26/2021 6:44:40 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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