The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials could yield new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Pretty sure this guy is going to get reelected. Gonna get interesting, I think.
The three basic strategies employed by the Republicans for everything seem to boil down to:
1) Nothing to see here. Just move along
2) He did not (as in 3 year olds arguing “you did too, did not, did too etc.)
3) It’s not fairNext, they will argue that double-jeopardy attaches to any and all impeachable actions that Trump may have committed in the past, present or future because the House didn’t vote to impeach him on those things. That’s what the arguments boil down to.
With these courts, who knows what nonsense they will decide in Trump’s favor. I’m actually surprised that the courts asked for briefings on whether it was moot or not, since these articles of impeachment need not be the only or last the House can bring against this president.
It’s interesting how the DoJ is using any reasoning it can to try to get out of releasing documents to the House…the reasoning changes all the time, as the scramble to hide documents and avoid subpoenas. It’s like they don’t understand the Constitution…oh, I’m sure that there are people in the WH who don’t, or who have twisted it to mean that they can do whatever they want, but the lawyers have to take Constitutional law, and they must know the meaning of Article 1 and Congressional oversight (I’m married to a lawyer so I know they have to know this).
I wonder how these lawyers are able to make these arguments, ones the fly in the face of the Constitution. I wonder if they understand how dangerous it is for the nation if they win and the president gets the power to do whatever they want while ignoring Congressional oversight. All it will take is one person who is smooth enough to push through their policies to take over the government and institute a authoritarian regime…and it won’t necessarily be a Republican that abuses the power that way. Heck, they are opening all kinds of powers for the next Democrat who wins the presidency, you’d think they would care about the tools they are planning to hand off when Trump leaves office.
Not everybody is as courageous as LTC Vindman.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
The DC circuit is generally level-headed so I’d expect them to rule for the House, as well they should.
It could get interesting, in that we could potentially have further impeachment hearings in the House on different charges before the Senate even gets around to the two articles Trump has already been impeached on.
The commenters make a good point. This Federalist Unitary Executive philosophy is Unconstitutional on its face, but in case our GOP friends have missed the obvious, here are a few fun facts. 1) The demographic trends for the GOP are a disaster for them - 50,000 18 year olds of non-Caucasian race legally join the Electorate every month - nearly all of them have good reasons to not trust giving power to the racist GOP. 2) The Democratic candidate has won the popular vote in every election since 1992 except for 2004, (and there is a question about that one). Does anyone even doubt that the Democrat will win the popular vote in 2020 even if they don’t win the Electoral College ? How long will the majority put up with this ? These trends almost guarantee that the House and the Presidency will move into Democratic hands, semi-permanently in the next decades. 3) There is no guarantees that a future Democratic President will be as even-handed as Obama and Clinton, so that the Unitary Powers conferred on Trump will result in little or no check on future Democratic Executives actions, which will likely be popular with most of the Electorate and backed up by the House majority.
Such an Executive would be immune to Impeachment and Removal and so would be free to completely ignor both the Senate (which may still be in GOP hands) and the conservatives in the Judicial Branch, (see Jackson, Andrew). 4) If it were me, one of my priorities would be to ignor the Senate and eliminate the Electoral College in favor of Direct Election by Executive Order due to its blatantly Unconstitutional racist origins. I would defund the Federal Courts if they tried to intervene and use the DoJ to investigate and indict, every single conservative Judge in the Federal system I did not approve of, unless they voluntarily resigned their office.
Fortunately for the GOP, I have no interest in running for the Presidency, however I also have no doubt that the current GOP behavior has pushed some in Democratic Party to dream about such future autocratic payback actions, all of which would be enabled by the tactics the GOP is employing today to hang onto power.
They need to stop Trump, now, because the consequences for them, even personally, from a Democratic majority electorate that has been absurdly pushed too far are quite significant.
The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials could yield new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
I assume that they mean the obvious repeated obstruction of justice, at a minimum. Mueller almost rubbed all of our noses in it, but his verbiage was too abstract for the typical Faux Nooz losers, and then Barr performed his lies and gas-lighting.
Has it occurred to you that they are not planning to leave office?
4).so what, get over it.
Someone else here in this thread said and I’ve been saying it for 2 years; they’re not going to relinquish power even IF their outrageous plot with Russia to rig the vote fails on its face.
The toothless ones up my way (just 2 hrs north of Time Square) are already drooling for a shooting war so they can REALLY own the Libs!
It’s easy they are Republicans
Nothing the biliy barr’s doj can be taken as anything but toadiism…opus dei, federalist soc and. Dirty since IranContra…
The 2010’s did not bend or break the Senate. The bending and breaking of the U.S. Senate was done intentionally with an organized agenda. Mitch McConnell and the spineless, amoral minions who make up Republican Conference are guilty of the destruction of the institution of the United States Senate. They should be relegated to the hottest place in hell as a reward.