Saturday, February 1, 2020

THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP - SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED - Trump Derangement Syndrome

DEMOCRATS HAVE: Trump Derangement Syndrome

The two articles of impeachment are not even crimes and therefore should be dismissed

I would say if it's non-constitutional then it's null and void. It's like it shouldn't have happened. It's totally illegal."

Chief Justice John Roberts will have the power to dismiss the articles of impeachment against the president.

Will the nation learn anything from the spectacle of the Pelosi-Schiff coup cabal abusing the Constitution with their impeachment circus? As with Judge Kavanaugh lynching, the impeachment of President Trump was always a house of cards built on abuse of power, distortions and dastardly lies.

The Impeachment Process in US Government

Ben Franklin’s Better Way of Removing 'Obnoxious' Presidents

The impeachment process in the U.S. government was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Noting that the traditional mechanism for removing “obnoxious” chief executives — like kings — from power had been an assassination, Franklin glibly suggested the impeachment process as a more rational and preferable method.

Key Takeaways: Impeachment Process

The process of impeachment is established by the U.S. Constitution.

The impeachment process must be initiated in the House of Representatives with the passage of a resolution listing the charges or “Articles of Impeachment” against the official being impeached.

If passed by the House, the Articles of Impeachment are considered by the Senate in a trial presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with the 100 Senators serving as the jury.

If the Senate votes in favor of conviction by a 2/3 supermajority vote (67 votes), the Senate will then vote to remove the official from office.

Under the U.S. Constitution, the President of the United States, the Vice President, and “and all civil Officers of the United States” may be impeached and removed from office if convicted of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Constitution also establishes the impeachment process.

Presidential impeachment may be the last thing you would ever think could happen in America. In fact, since 1841, over one-third of all American Presidents have either died in office, became disabled, or resigned. However, no American President has ever been forced from office due to impeachment.

Taking the vote on the impeachment of President Johnson. Historical

Three U.S. presidents have been impeached by the House—but not convicted and removed from office by the Senate—and two others have been the subject of serious impeachment discussion:
Andrew Johnson was actually impeached when Congress became unhappy with the way he was dealing with some post-Civil War matters, but Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote and remained in office.

Congress introduced a resolution to impeach John Tyler over state's rights issues, but the resolution failed.

Congress debated impeaching President Richard Nixon over the Watergate break-in, but he resigned before any impeachment proceedings began.

William J. Clinton was impeached by the House on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in relation to his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was eventually acquitted by the Senate.

Donald Trump was impeached by the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to the solicitation of foreign interference from Ukraine in the 2020 presidential election.

The impeachment process plays out in Congress and requires critical votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is often said that the “House impeaches and the Senate convicts,” or not. In essence, the House first decides if there are grounds to impeach the president, and if it does, the Senate holds a formal impeachment trial.

House Judiciary Committee Meeting in 1974 discussing Nixon's possible impeachment.

In the House of Representatives

The House Judiciary Committee decides whether or not to proceed with impeachment. If they do...

The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee will propose a resolution calling for the Judiciary Committee to begin a formal inquiry into the issue of impeachment.

Based on their inquiry, the Judiciary Committee will send another resolution composed of one or more "Articles of Impeachment" to the full House stating that impeachment is warranted and why or that impeachment is not called for.

The Full House (probably operating under special floor rules set by the House Rules Committee) will debate and vote on each Article of Impeachment.

Should any one of the Articles of Impeachment be approved by a simple majority vote, the President will be "impeached." However, being impeached is sort of like being indicted for a crime. The president will remain in office pending the outcome of the Senate impeachment trial.

In the Senate

The Articles of Impeachment are received from the House.

The Senate formulates rules and procedures for holding a trial.

The trial will be held with the president represented by his lawyers. A select group of House members serves as "prosecutors." The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (currently John G. Roberts) presides with all 100 Senators acting as the jury.

The Senate meets in private session to debate a verdict.

The Senate, in open session, votes on a verdict. A 2/3 supermajority vote of the Senate will result in a conviction.

The Senate will vote to remove the President from office.

The Senate may also vote (by a simple majority) to prohibit the President from holding any public office in the future.

Once impeached officials are convicted in the Senate, their removal from office is automatic and may not be appealed. In the 1993 case of Nixon v. United States, the U.S. the Supreme Court ruled that the federal judiciary cannot review impeachment proceedings.

At the state level, state legislatures can impeach state officials, including governors, in accordance with their respective state constitutions.

Impeachable Offenses

Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution says, "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

To date, two federal judges have been impeached and removed from office based on charges of bribery. No federal official has ever faced impeachment based on charges of treason. All other impeachment proceedings held against federal officials, including three presidents, have been based on charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

According to constitutional lawyers, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" are (1) real criminality—breaking a law; (2) abuses of power; (3) "violation of public trust" as defined by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. In 1970, then-Representative Gerald R. Ford defined impeachable offenses as "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."

Historically, Congress has issued Articles of Impeachment for acts in three general categories:

Exceeding the constitutional bounds of the powers of the office.

Behavior is grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office.

Employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or for personal gain.

The impeachment process is political, rather than criminal in nature. Congress has no power to impose criminal penalties on impeached officials. But criminal courts may try and punish officials if they have committed crimes.

The Impeachment of Donald Trump

On December 18, 2019, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines to impeach 45th President of the United States Donald Trump on charges of abusing his constitutionally granted power and obstructing Congress.

The two articles of impeachment—Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress—were based on a phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. During the July 25, 2019, call, President Trump allegedly made the release of a previously withheld $400 million in U.S. military aid to Ukraine contingent on Zelenskiy’s agreement to publicly announce that his government was investigating Trump’s political rival and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter regarding their business dealings with Burisma, a major Ukrainian gas company. The military aid, needed by Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia, was released by the White House on September 11, 2019.

The articles of impeachment accuse Trump of abusing his presidential powers by seeking a foreign government’s political assistance and interference in the U.S. electoral process, and of obstructing a congressional investigation by refusing to allow administration officials from complying with subpoenas to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

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The fact that the president has had to expend so many resources is terrible for the country. Schiff should never have been allowed to get to the Senate with this Democratic
Scam, Pelosi should have stopped it dead, being House Speaker she knew it was unconstitutional, and not following
Impeachment Process to letter of law, so really everything
just so inadmissible and should be thrown out.
Coo-Coo Pelosi will go down in history as the______ Bigest_____? Speaker of the House of Democrats...

STUPID IS AS STUPID
DOES

ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE

And every minute of every day wasted on this is a distraction from dealing with the issues we ought to be dealing with – like putting people who illegally spied on the President in jail or the Coronavirus emergency.

NEED I SAY MORE ...COME NOVEMBER ELECTION