The House Intelligence Committee is expanding an existing investigation into the Department of Homeland Security to address a whistleblower’s allegations that top officials politicized intelligence to aid President Donald Trump.
I’d be up for impeaching a lame duck president. It would kick start the Biden term’s corruption probes.
“up for impeaching a lame duck president. It would kick start the Biden term’s corruption probes.”
But isn’t it impeach OR prosecute?
…a whistleblower’s allegations that top officials politicized intelligence…
Trump administration higher-ups pressured him and others to distort intelligence products on Russia […] in order to reflect Trump’s priorities…
…he was excluded from the drafting process of an intelligence notification on Russian disinformation efforts after Wolf told him the notification should be ‘held’ because it ‘made the President look bad.’
With all due respect to our unenviable press in the Trump Era, I think they’re burying the lede.
This was no “political” effort to “reflect Trump’s priorities” or avoid “making the President look bad”.
It was a criminal enterprise to subvert the Constitution, aid-and-abet a Russian military operation against America, and steal a US election.
The time for polite euphemisms is long since dead and gone.
Impeach on the narrow charges of “Associating the Presidency with White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism and Hatred”* and then in 2021 investigate emoluments violations, foreign contributions to his inaugural committee, obstruction of justice, etc.
*h/t Al Green – seems prescient in light of the whistleblower’s allegations
Nope, impeach, find guilty, remove from office, then prosecute.
Oh, HELL YES!!! 
But he has already been impeached. How about just whipping the Senate into voting him out?
Ladies and gentlement, we have another “Oh, HELL YES!!!”
The idea is that after BLOTUS IMPOTUS loses the election and he loses the Senate, then you immediately initiate the second impeachment process. It’s possible that Moscow Mitch will lose his Senate seat, but if not, it is still more likely that he will lose his role as Senate Majority Leader. Moscow Mitch will still be majority leader until the next Senate is seated, but he’ll be hurtin’ and pissed at Satan’s Avatar, the Orange Menace and Lord of Lies. Lame duck GOP Senators won’t give a shit about Trumplethinskin, since Twitler can’t hurt them anymore. Furthermore, those GOP Senators who are returning to the Senate will no longer need to show fealty to Trumpty Dumpty, since he’d be powerless come January 2021.
You impeach his putrid, vile ass and let him leave with the stain of the only IMPOTUS ever impeached twice, and during his first and only term.
Don’t even try to provide any arguments about slowing down the Senate by forcing them to conduct yet another trial. Moscow Mitch’s Senate is slower than glacial already.
Impeach vs Prosecute. It should not be an either/or, but a both/and. Impeach again while in office - more for history than any real chance of removing him from office when he’s got Moscow Mitch’s wall to protect him - and prosecute when he’s out of office. But don’t get the DOJ involved initially.
Start with a South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by a pair of well respected senior or retired federal judges, or even former Justice Souter, chosen for their fairmindedness. Get all the information possible in this venue, and then hand off the results to the DOJ. That would eliminate any (legitimate) argument the Biden administration is just settling partisan scores, and free the Biden administration to address the country’s problems at hand, like Covid, unemployment, etc.
The Commission could require all DOJ and DHS employees/lawyers to submit written statements of any wrongdoing they’ve either witnessed, up to and including Barr and other top DOJ officials, or participated in themselves. These would then be cross checked to see whose been honest. Those who fessed up to skullduggery would be dealt with separately - not given a blanket amnesty but at least some credit when it comes time for any punishment. Those who don’t fess up, but are implicated by others should be investigated thoroughly, and given no quarter for their original misdeeds, and also punished for lying about it.
I think Barr and others deserve decades behind bars, preferably in a federal prison in a very hot part of the country with no air conditioning.
Nothing says you can’t do both, especially in that order.
No under the Constitution, an impeached federal official can be charged criminally later. Impeachment only deals with kicking a federal official out of office has nothing to do with any other civil or criminal penalty the impeachable actions may afford.
If the Dems take the Senate, control will leave Mitch’s hands on January 3, leaving a bit more than two weeks to hold the trial.
I’m sorry, but current budgets do not allow for purchasing 50 spines on short notice.
I, for the first time in a long time, feel like the Great Spirit heard our calls.
This man trumper, deserves everything that is comming to him.
We, deserve to to watch this great downfall, in all it’s sad splinder play out on C-Span every day until he leaves office, then we watch his countless lies and grotesque actions totally consume him and his spawn.
That would be justice served cold.
You definitely speak my language.
Aw…man…,I was trying to to fire this thing up!
I like that!
refusing to go along with… Ken Cuccinelli
Say no more.
Take the worst things Republicans hate in career politicians, and you’re not even close to Ken Cuccinelli always at the front of the line for public handouts.