Would congressional R's consider impeachment for the sake of their upcoming electoral chances?

[AntonToo]

LOL. Man, you just can't learn your lesson, can you? All of your lawfare against Trump is what got him elected, you dumb moron. Now you want to double down on stupid.

That's not a legal question.

You've asked "impeached for what?" and I gave you a clear answer you can't refute. Trump is very much impeachable by Constitutional standard if enough Republicans want to go there.

I've never said that Republicans actualy DO want to impeach, which is why impeachment question is moot. Even if there are perfectly clear grounds to impeach Trump it's a waste of time without at least some Republican support.

 

[kyzr]

Ha. Good one. See post #89.

OK, here's your post #89, so which of these are actual crimes? HINT: none, see "Presidential Immunity decision"

Defying court orders, violating the Transparency Act, committing war crimes, violating the Emoluments Clause, illegally appointing US Attorneys, unconstitutionally usurping powers belonging to Congress, etc., etc.

 

[Independent thinker]

That's not a legal question.

You've asked "impeached for what?" and I gave you a clear answer you can't refute. Trump is very much impeachable by Constitutional standard if enough Republicans want to go there.

I've never said that Republicans actualy DO want to impeach, which is why impeachment question is moot. Even if there are perfectly clear grounds to impeach Trump it's a waste of time without at least some Republican support.

So, you are saying you want to take away the voters's wishes. To hell with them. If that is the case, why weren't you talking about this one year ago? Why now? What's different?

 

[AntonToo]

So, you are saying you want to take away the voters's wishes. To hell with them. If that is the case, why weren't you talking about this one year ago? Why now? What's different?

Does Constitution "want to take away voter's wishes" by giving the Congress the power to impeach the president for high crimes?

I forget where in there is a requirement that an impeachment or criminal prosecutions are put to a national vote.

The reason why we are talking about it now is because that's what this thread is about and my objection to it's thesis is that NO, it doesn't help Republicans electorally and NO they have no interest in it. Impeachment efforts without Republican support to actually remove Trump are mostly pointless waste of time at this point.

You've asked what Trump could be reasonably impeached for and I gave you an obvious answer. Accept it and move on.

 

[ThisIsMe]

If a R candidate has supported trump's policies,

But you will try to make the connection, by whatever obscure method possible.

or even if he has not spoken out against them,

And there it is, “if you don’t speak out, then you are guilty!”. Like I said, the left is going to make any possible connection to associate any republican candidate with trump. This is a given, we already know this is going to happen.

it's a legitimate criticism to make during a campaign.

just because someone supported a president doesn’t make them “maga”. Take me for example, I voted for trump solely because it was a vote against the democrats. I’m not particularly fond of trump, other than he kept a democrat out of the White House. According to you, that makes me “MAGA”.

It’s a wrong assumption.

For example, any candidate that hasn't opposed things like the investigations in to Walz, Ellison, Kelly, Comey, James, Powell, etc. should be held accountable for it.

If that is YOUR metric for what you want in a candidate, that’s fine. Me personally, I’m not going to judge a candidate because of them not vocalizing support or non support of a political investigation. If the candidate has a sound idea, I’ll support them for that.