colfax_m
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And the Administration has standing authority to ignore them, as a co-equal branch. That is, they are not compulsory.The Constitution gives Impeachment Power to THE HOUSE, not to Crazy Nancy, Bug-eyed Schiff and Fat Jerry. They sent the subpoenas before the House vote, so the the Co-Equal Branch, rejected them. They didn't assert privilege, they didn't have to, and they explained this all to the rather dumb House Leadership at the time.There is no law which says any of this. You're making this up.
As for the oft repeated claim that this is the First Senate Trial without additional witnesses, that too is yet another of the lying House Manager's and the Fake News Media's lies.
One more time: circa 1797-1799, Senator Blount was impeached by the House. In the Senate impeachment trial proceedings, there were ZERO witnesses.
Crazed Democrats mounted a concerted effort to make an entirely new system of justice for one person. Trump. And the effort failed.
We are One People, with One Law, applied without Favor
Congressional committees have standing authority to subpoena information...
JFK - would not provide names of those in who edited speeches to the a Senate Panel. Also refused to allow General Taylor to tesify before Congress in the Bay of Pigs affair.
LBJ - Three times Administration officials refused to provide Congress with information about Administrative Actions.
Nixon - directed Attorney General to withhold FBI reports from a congressional panel and directed the Secretary of State to withhold information from Congress about military assistance programs
Papa Bush - directed Sec. of Defense to not comply with congressional subpoena for document related to costs and cancellation of Navy aircraft program
Clinton - asserted privilege before the congressional committee over a FBI-DEA drug enforcement memo and before congressional committee over Haiti/political assassinations documents and claimed privilege in response to subpoenas by congressional
committee investigating Armed Forces of National Liberation clemency
Dubya - asserted privilege in response to
Hcongressional subpoenas for documents about regulations for air quality standards and communications about greenhouse gas emissions in California and in response to congressional subpoena for documents related to investigation into revelation of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as CIA operative
Obama - in response to congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious - this claim is still being test in the courts.
Many other times, settlements were reached or the courts ruled against them. Never were they "impeached" over a made up crime of "obstruction of Congress"
You can't alter the balance of power with majority by one of the branches, that would take a Constitutional Amendment, which requires the agreement of 75%of the State Legislatures.... There is no need to pass legislation to grant them that ability....
Indeed, but they didn't issue any subpoenas after that. Said they were in too big of a hurry to do the job right, and then sat on the articles for nearly a month rather than giving them to the Senate.... The House does has impeachment power. That occurred when they voted for impeachment.
You’re misreading. The House is given power to impeach. The actual vote on the articles of impeachment was December 18th.
The house has standing authority to subpoena the president. Other branches have given actual legal arguments for defying subpoenas, such as executive privilege. Trump’s arguments are specious. No administration has ever refused every single request and subpoena. That’s the new standard. No administration ever will feel the need to comply with any request or subpoena from Congress without going through a many year legal battle.
Trump is breaking the government.
He has certainly broken mental midget partisan hacks like you.
That's a good thing.
He’s broken nothing in me other than my faith in the Republican Party. Is now driven completely by craven low lives.