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Senate votes Trump impeachment trial is constitutional
foxnews.com ^ | Feb. 9, 2021 | By Marisa Schultz

Posted on 02/09/2021 2:35:16 PM PST by PROCON

The Senate voted Tuesday to move ahead with the unprecedented impeachment trial of former President Trump after listening to hours of arguments on whether it is constitutional to try a president who is already out of office.

The vote was 56-44.

Trump's legal team said the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and can't face removal, which is the standard judgment of an impeachment conviction.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censureromney; crossingtherubicon; farce; farce2; impeachment; impeachment2; rinos; senate; trump; unconstitutional
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To: RoseofTexas

“..next the hill will make a constitutional law to REMOVE ALL our beautiful D.C. Monuments...”

Right. They are incrementalists. First it was the monuments to Southern patriots. Then it was the founding fathers. Then it was the battlefield memorials. Then it was the Vietnam Wall. Then it was the Iwo Jima Memorial. Then it was the Washington Monument and finally Arlington National Cemetary and Tomb if the Unknown Soldier. The filthy bastards are after it all.


181 posted on 02/09/2021 4:28:13 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Pollster1

> Impeachment exists exclusively for removal from office. Criminal conduct, if it occurs, can be prosecuted whether or not it occurs in January.

The president can be impeached for offenses that are not necessarily criminal in nature, so criminal courts are not equipped to deal with the full range of shenanigans that the president might get up to in the waning days of his presidency. Also, criminal courts cannot bar a person from holding federal office in the future.


182 posted on 02/09/2021 4:30:51 PM PST by Qilin
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To: monkeyshine

Why? Let it go to vote right now!


183 posted on 02/09/2021 4:31:44 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Jonty30

“Ben Sasse surprises me. When I have heard him speak, he’s always come across as Constitutionally minded.”

Sasse has a pathological hatred for Donald Trump.


184 posted on 02/09/2021 4:37:46 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: PROCON

The six (RINO) senators are:
Bill Cassidy

Susan Collins

Lisa Murkowski

Mitt Romney

Ben Sasse

Pat Toomey

ie: The Usual Suspects!


185 posted on 02/09/2021 4:38:57 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: grobdriver

“Chuckie will need six more turds to fill the bowl and convict.”

Eleven more.


186 posted on 02/09/2021 4:39:13 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: PROCON

Individuals drunk on their power. The LAW is what they say it is. Not the content of some moldy old document in an obscure language.


187 posted on 02/09/2021 4:39:20 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: ought-six

It’s either constitutional or it’s not. Since when do partisan votes decide.


188 posted on 02/09/2021 4:39:45 PM PST by jersey117
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To: PROCON

Send in the troops. Lock them all up and hold military trials. Executive, legislative, judicial the whole nation wide, trial by the federal code, sort it out. Then also hold evidentiary hearing nation wide to sort out the last election and set things right. Those not in on direct illegality shall need go also for tacit complicity.
Save our country we are not a socialist country and never will be.
Fair trials not kangaroo courts.


189 posted on 02/09/2021 4:40:38 PM PST by Recompennation
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To: lightman

Cassidy was forced to capitulate. Either he or his family or both were threatened by an unknown party who must have President Trump impeached to continue with there objective of control of the country. They have Biden, DOJ, FBI and the Democratic party but must stop Trump and impeachment is the cleanest way to do it.


190 posted on 02/09/2021 4:48:49 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: SkyDancer

middle school kid knows more about the Constitution ...

Not any more if the young Soc St teachers I worked with 10 years ago are now the majority in schools.


191 posted on 02/09/2021 4:57:08 PM PST by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: sanjuanbob
Why? Let it go to vote right now!

Well I agree, but they won't let that happen. They want to air this mock trial that has all the appearance of due process with none of the protections, and no common sense.

192 posted on 02/09/2021 4:59:22 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: PROCON

Anyone who has been even somewhat informed isn’t surprised by this. They are corrupt and have skeletons in their closets.


193 posted on 02/09/2021 5:07:15 PM PST by bcr100 (ht)
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To: PROCON

Nancy hopes Trump supporters will cause trouble so they can declare Marshall Law


194 posted on 02/09/2021 5:07:36 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

The 6 traitorous RINOs on list....

Didn’t I see the same ones on another list? Oh,yeah, the one of sneaky, cowardly snakes in the grass who put America last.

I knew they looked familiar.


195 posted on 02/09/2021 5:10:08 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: lightman

Do we realize that there is no such corresponding list of “moderate” turncoat Dems? Maybe one Manchin entry sometimes.

But no dissenters, mavericks, wild cards and rogues for the Dems. All one mass group voting as a bloc.


196 posted on 02/09/2021 5:12:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RetiredScientist

I am beyond disgusted in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. As THE DECIDER of what is Constitutional and what is not, how does the USSC choose to abstain? Besides the statement from “Chief Justice” Roberts that he will not participate, there has been no other statement. Really??!!


197 posted on 02/09/2021 5:13:37 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty
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To: PROCON

Kangaroo court.

The SUPREME COURT decides if something is Constitutional, not (M)itt Romney, former Republican. It’s been at least 8 years since he voted for a Republican candidate for president, if not 12 or 16 or more.


198 posted on 02/09/2021 5:14:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: PROCON

Voting that it is constitutional does not make it so.


199 posted on 02/09/2021 5:17:14 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (In a world where EVERYTHING is declared "racist", the word has no meaning.)
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To: Skywise
On the bright side - we can now impeach Obama

Michelle O read your post to Barack. He gasped and choked on his swallow of Zingy Ginger Greens Juice. Went down the wrong way.

200 posted on 02/09/2021 5:18:53 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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