The Senate Should Censure the House over Impeachment
I hereby submit this idea to The Turtle and the rest of the Republicans in the Senate. There’s a long and tedious tradition of either house of Congress passing non-binding resolutions and censures (condemnations) of groups or individuals. Now would be a great time to pass a resolution in the Senate formally censuring the House of Representatives for this sham of an impeachment. I’m sure you can do better than me, but here goes!
Be it Resolved, That the Democratic Leadership of the House of Representatives, as relating to their recent Articles of Impeachment against their President Donald J. Trump, has acted in a way contrary to the Constitution of the United States by employing McCarthyite smears rather than allegations of actual high crimes or misdemeanors. The Democratic Party’s hyper-partisan impeachment of President Trump is just a continuation of their efforts to delegitimize the 2016 election results…In addition, be it resolved that the Democratic Leadership’s pretend “impeachment” of their president is null and void as it was never formally delivered to The Senate of the United States of America.
And for you supposed liberals out there, consider this.
“Liberals convinced a whole generation ... that in fact, you should believe and trust in the NSA, and the FISA court process and the FBI. And now we find out, yet again, that these agencies within their DNA exist to deceive and to lie,” says @ggreenwald. https://t.co/2Oo7WOMjET pic.twitter.com/AgnopQTOs8
— The Intercept (@theintercept) December 19, 2019
Mike Cernovich and others have pointed out; the impeachment may be null and void if the Democrats follow through on not actually delivering their articles.
For an impeachment to be valid, it has to follow House Rules.
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 19, 2019
This stuff can be read online, folks.
Yet no law professor is linking to this information.https://t.co/6s5MLxmFTS
Trump isn't impeached til House transmits to Senate, per a Harvard Law professor who was a witness for House Democrats.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 19, 2019
“If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all,“ @NoahRFeldman writes. https://t.co/urzhneXlo8
So much for a “sad and somber” day
— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) December 19, 2019
Nancy Pelosi had to signal for Democrats to stop cheering after the first vote on impeachment was adopted pic.twitter.com/asiFlj9nx9
Reminder. In order to vote YES on the first article of impeachment, you had to believe:
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 19, 2019
1) Trump "betrayed the Nation," defined as committing treason to help Russia
2) Trump's joke about Hillary's emails and praise of WikiLeaks in 2016 were "invitations of foreign interference"