Impeachment

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Just in case there aren't enough complexities for y'all:

Could Trump Serve a Second Term if Ousted? It's Up to the Senate

... Like so much of the coming impeachment showdown, that decision rests entirely with the Senate. The Constitution famously grants senators the sole power to convict and remove a president — something that has never been done. What is seldom discussed is a more obscure clause of the Constitution that allows the Senate discretion to take a second, even more punitive step, to disqualify the person it convicts from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”

Imposing that penalty would effectively bar the president from reclaiming his old job. In an added twist, tacking on the extra punishment requires only a majority vote in the Senate, not the two-thirds — or 67 senators — required to convict....

[O Really]

I doubt we have to worry about Trump getting elected to another office if he's removed.

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I doubt we have to worry about Trump getting elected to another office if he's removed.

You're probably correct, but I think the specific concern is that he continues his 2020 campaign and wins. The x-factor, as always, is the Dem propensity for committing political suicide.

[billy.pilgrim]

I doubt we have to worry about Trump getting elected to another office if he's removed.

You're probably correct, but I think the specific concern is that he continues his 2020 campaign and wins. The x-factor, as always, is the Dem propensity for committing political suicide.

LBJ would have served 2 full and 1 partial had he been elected. Are there limits to the length of the partial?

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LBJ would have served 2 full and 1 partial had he been elected. Are there limits to the length of the partial?

Good question.

Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once....

45SHOLE would be limited to just a 2nd election, presumably in 2020.
VP Q-tip could get elected twice since 45SHOLE has already served more than 2 years.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump- ... e-n1071811

Seems tough enough

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump- ... e-n1071811

Seems tough enough

Good, they need it.

Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower’s Name, Sources Say

A top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes has been providing conservative politicians and journalists with information—and misinformation—about the anonymous whistleblower who triggered the biggest crisis of Donald Trump’s presidency, two knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast.

Derek Harvey, who works for Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, has provided notes for House Republicans identifying the whistleblower’s name ahead of the high-profile depositions of Trump administration appointees and civil servants in the impeachment inquiry. The purpose of the notes, one source said, is to get the whistleblower’s name into the record of the proceedings, which committee chairman Adam Schiff has pledged to eventually release. In other words: it’s an attempt to out the anonymous official who helped trigger the impeachment inquiry.

On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that GOP lawmakers and staffers have “repeatedly” used a name purporting to be the whistleblower during the depositions. The paper named Harvey as driving lines of questioning Democrats saw as attempting to determine the political loyalties of witnesses before the inquiry. A former official told the Post that Harvey “was passing notes [to GOP lawmakers] the entire time” ex-NSC Russia staffer Fiona Hill testified.

“Exposing the identity of the whistleblower and attacking our client would do nothing to undercut the validity of the complaint’s allegations,” said Mark Zaid, one of the whistleblower’s attorneys. “What it would do, however, is put that individual and their family at risk of harm. Perhaps more important, it would deter future whistleblowers from coming forward in subsequent administrations, Democratic or Republican.” Zaid has represented The Daily Beast in freedom-of-information lawsuits against the federal government....

Lock the treasonous, criminal, Repug leakers up and sue their asses!

Democrats post text of impeachment resolution, showdown vote as soon as Thursday

... But it's unclear whether there are sufficient votes from Democrats to pass the resolution on their own....

Tell Congress: Vote YES on the impeachment resolution

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Republicans break with Trump and Rand Paul on whistleblower unmasking



Poor, poor Trumpettes - Ambassador Sondland, VA, KY! and now this from their own Repugs. Their house of cards is collapsing and only the densest of them is not now realizing how badly they screwed up by backing POSPOTUS.

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Trump's Twitter War Room Aims Its Punches at Decorated Colonel

POSPOTUS despises our military. Every soldier and vet, living and dead, is a reminder of the lifelong cowardly Chickenhawk in Chief’s lying shame.

Comment:

Well, according to this conspiracy theory (the only kind of belief system right-wingers understand) everyone else is lying and only Trump is telling the "perfect" truth.

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Leftist are running out of options.

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Giuliani floats new explanation for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden

When the explanations and excuses shift every day, guilt is certain.

[neoplacebo]

Leftist are running out of options.

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

[1 CAT FAN]

Leftist are running out of options.

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

You really don't need to be running around naked in this fall weather.

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I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

The real issues are choosing among the very very many "options" to include in the articles of impeachment, and guessing just how many more states will flip blue in 2020.

[1 CAT FAN]

Leftist are running out of options.

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

You really don't need to be running around naked in this fall weather. Adult Ohioans defy the weather too.

[Vrede too]

POSPOTUS despises our military. Every soldier and vet, living and dead, is a reminder of the lifelong cowardly Chickenhawk in Chief’s lying shame.

Trumpettes spit on our military, too.

[neoplacebo]

Leftist are running out of options.

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

You really don't need to be running around naked in this fall weather. Adult Ohioans defy the weather too.

Remember the Alamo! It's not a question.

[neoplacebo]

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

The real issues are choosing among the very very many "options" to include in the articles of impeachment, and guessing just how many more states will flip blue in 2020.

My favorite part of all this is how trump tells others to defy Congressional subpoenas, which just adds to the list of obstruction of justice counts he will face. You just don't encounter stupidity of this magnitude in the normal course of things.

[GoCubsGo]

This could get really fun!

Fox News's Sean Hannity furiously demands 'ALL OF YOU STOP LYING ABOUT ME' after Ukraine claims emerge[/size]

[1 CAT FAN]

Leftist are running out of options.

I have hardly any laundry that needs to be done.

You really don't need to be running around naked in this fall weather. Adult Ohioans defy the weather too.

Remember the Alamo! It's not a question.

Yeah, it’s in Texas.