From the Russia gate to the Kavanaugh false accusations and then to the shampeachment. What is next?
To those who are not yet participating in an American party, do you believe the impeachment was a good idea? President Trump won again, didn't he?
What is the thought process behind the choices the party is making? Hate is going to defeat president Trump, no good candidates required?
On the assumption that you are capable of a nuanced debate.
Impeachment is the only remedy our system has for a law breaking president. It's a flawed one, since no Senator before Mitt Romney has ever voted to remove a president of his own party.
No, we never thought we could remove Trump, not because most of the REpublicans really thought he was innocent, but because they are too terrified of their own voters. But we did put it on the historical record that he broke the law.
No you didn't, douchebag. There were no actual laws listed in the impeachment articles.
1) no 'actual' laws need to be broken for impeachment.
2) when the framers wrote the constitution - there were no federal crimes 'on the books', so they worded it in such a way that 'breaking the public trust' is a pathway to impeachment.
1) What the hell are you talking about here...Please cite the exact statute in the US Code that Trump broke.
2) What an extraordinary display of ignorance of how the framers of the constitution came up with the document.
there is no exact statute in the US code because there was....no read slowly.....
NO
US
CODES
at the time the constituion was written.
2) how utterly ironic that you actually wrote that.
Origins
Impeachment comes from British constitutional history. The process evolved from the 14th century as a way for parliament to hold the king’s ministers accountable for their public actions. Impeachment, as
Alexander Hamilton of New York explained in Federalist 65, varies from civil or criminal courts in that it strictly involves the “misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Individual state constitutions had provided for impeachment for “maladministration” or “corruption” before the U.S. Constitution was written. And the founders, fearing the potential for abuse of executive power, considered impeachment so important that they made it part of the Constitution even before they defined the contours of the presidency.
Impeachment | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
"In fact, ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ is not defined in the Constitution and does not require corresponding statutory charges. The context implies conduct that violates the public trust—and that view is echoed by the Framers of the Constitution and early American scholars."
In his tweet, Amash noted that the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors" in the Constitution is relatively fluid, but that it has generally been seen as a breach of the public trust:
"In fact, ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ is not defined in the Constitution and does not require corresponding statutory charges. The context implies conduct that violates the public trust—and that view is echoed by the Framers of the Constitution and early American scholars."
In fact, “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” is not defined in the Constitution and does not require corresponding statutory charges. The context implies conduct that violates the public trust—and that view is echoed by the Framers of the Constitution and early American scholars.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash)
May 20, 2019
PolitiFact - What counts as a high crime or misdemeanor for impeachment? Justin Amash got it right
