Please stop calling him that. He is now nothing more than a discredited pundit. Even people from the fucking Federalist Society agree that impeachment is perfectly constitutional. Turley is a media-whore Faux News agent and a total KKKlown whose claptrap partisan rationalizations deserve precisely zero credence.
ETA: It is, of course, the only opinion Faux News is pushing and Turley is, of course, just trying to maintain access to the Faux News audience and his Faux News income stream…
Exactly. The GOP are fashioning their own nooses here as they argue Presidents can and should be free to round up and murder their political enemies near the end of their term in office
It’s pretty sad that Republicans are going to try this play…it’s trying to avoid taking a stand on the merits of the case so that they don’t upset the violent base that threatened their lives in an effort to keep them voting Republican. The dissonance of that really should make them think about what they are doing…and the saddest thing is that some of them understand this and will go along anyways. I wonder if any of them would have a different opinion if the insurrection managed to grab a few members of Congress or Pence and strung them up outside the Capitol…though I suspect these Republicans would find a way to excuse that too. Just no moral courage among them whatsoever.
Let’s hope that more awful information comes out before or during the trial that makes it clear the plan was to kill people and the incitement by Trump was purposeful…that will make this stance appear even more cowardly and awful
Let’s look that up. Nope, the constitution says no such thing. Article I, Section 3:
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Especially since the Trumpers got all colicky about judges ruling on standing etc., in all the Trump election lawsuits,ignoring the “mountains of evidence.”
Pfft. You’re using that written Constitution. Scholars like Turley use the one in their imaginations, that they can change on the fly. Saves a lot on white out and erasers.
Turley asserted that the trial “is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial.”
Does it not cross Turley’s mind that the term “primary purpose” suggests that there are, in fact, other purposes? He might have a point if the language of the Constitution read “the only purpose.”
