As has been precedent in previous impeachment investigations, the House Judiciary Committee released a report on the Constitutional grounds for impeachment on Saturday, outlining what offenses reach the “high crimes and misdemeanors” threshold.
Powerful and necessary words. Trump’s “presidency” is no longer that. It is a demagogic regime. It is a demagogic regime because the object is to maintain a particular person in power.
It is a demagogic regime because it will use whatever levers of power–legal and illegal–it can to achieve this aim.
It is a demagogic regime because the majority of the country ruled by the regime is aware of the above…and the regime still persists and, in fact, informs the majority that the maintenance of its power resides in the aforementioned levers of power, not the will of the majority of its citizens.
The NYT is on it. I especially like this paragraph, though the whole thing is edifying.
In a previous practice sessions before a hearing on Wednesday that featured a witness panel of constitutional scholars, Mr. Nadler, wielding his wooden gavel, spent extra time rehearsing again and again how to swiftly dispatch with parliamentary disruptions from Republicans. Joshua Matz, a lawyer brought in by the Democrats to help with impeachment, and Barry H. Berke, a veteran white-collar defense lawyer in New York who also serves as special oversight counsel for the Judiciary Committee, took seats at the witness table to sit in for the academics who would appear there the next day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/impeachment-judiciary-committee.html
Abuse of power, betrayal involving foreign governments and corruption? Process crimes.
Yes please. I too want to see Rudy in front of Congress.
Is Rudy going to layover in Hawaii and pick up all the stuff there about Obama’s birth certificate?
Plenty can be a neutral word. It refers to “amount”
Slavery was plenty bad.
World Peace is plenty good
In simple terms, the Trump “presidency” has been on a deliberate and steady march toward dictatorship. Trump Tyrannos!
Not a single GOPer on the Judiciary Committee is willing to even identify what can be impeachable activity. Not say Trump did it, mind you, but merely point out what kind of actions are subject to impeachment.
If journalists had any work ethic, they’d ask these GOP cultists about this. In public. Every single day.
These unpatriotic scum need to be publicly identified and shamed for not caring about defending their oath to the Constitution and putting party above country.
Trump delenda est
These unpatriotic scum need to be shamed for their obvious and overt efforts to destroy American democracy and freedom and to establish a tyranny of the oligarchs and religious zealots.
What a coincidence! Just in time, too! Tell us, rudebag, what say the mobsters of Kyiv?
Anna Marie Cox stated last night that Trump and the GOP are so bold because they believe that the votes are there no matter what the people actually vote on Nov 2020.
I believe her and, in fact, so does Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi speaks in a kind of prose necessary for her Position. But what I heard was the same thing…and, in fact, it is the observable reason the House is saying, in effect:
“This man plans on obtaining outside help in the coming election. He is obstructing and sidetracking all efforts to stop him. We do not have time to wait for court battles to get the information we need to stop him.”
No one (outside of the deplorable Trump cult) will believe a word of this pack of lies coming from Russian spies and crooked Ukrainian oligarchs . It also adds to future criminal charges against both Guiliani and Trump.
If Trump plays his cards right, he get Otisville. He could say hi to Michael Cohen.
mpeach the fucker! And Trumpers (aka republicans) be damned. 
