Leahy, not Roberts, to preside over impeachment trial
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Apparently, not sure how this is even lawful. Inventing whatever rules they want.
This is why I'm only abiding by laws that I want to until the government gets unfucked
That's the spirit!
I keep telling the people around me about the lockdowns: "Yeah, so? You know what I hear when they say '2 more weeks'? I hear '2 more weeks not paying taxes on my income'. I'm not working, am I? ;D"
The Calvinball impeachment
Ahhh fellow men of culture I see. Comics are just not made the same anymore. So glad I own all those books.
Word. I'm too old for anything later than the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. In this Edition - Fat Freddy's cat shits in Freewheelin' Franklin's coof-mask!
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/87978-calvinball.jpg
I think you'll like this one ;)
NOT "comic books!!!" They are "GRAHIC novels!" lol
Anyone caught without a mask has to go to 3rd base touchdown zone
First Trump has to hop on one foot blindfolded to 32nd base, then the trial can begin
Article 1, Section 3, Clause 6:
It's not. It's yet another reason to try for treason.
Chief Justice choosing not to preside over this process is proof that this is unconstitutional. But most of us know how to read the Kings English at an 8th grade level. So we knew it was unconstitutional already.
Had to mess up that beautiful number 17 to upvote but I figure some douche downvoted it once so I canceled that out and now it's actually 17
Even I can understand this. But I'm not a lawyer.
Anyone got a leaderboard of who committed the most amounts of treasonous acts at this point? Who's our front runners?
If anything, you can interpret that the Chief Justice does not need to preside BECAUSE it is not the President (current) being tried. Furthermore, "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments" gives cover to proceed even though Trump is "out of office" because he was impeached. Seems like there is cover that it is not treason, just an unprecedented occasion.
What does seem short-sighted is that supposedly Trump or his representative(s) would be able to bring up election fraud evidence and / or the real story of the Capitol "insurrection". Will be interesting to see if there is an avenue for this or if it turns out to be a railroad trial where the "rules" prevent either from happening.
That's a good point, actually. Fits with the gun salute conundrum, where they apparently didn't treat Biden as POTUS, too.
Agree; I can't yet see that happening, too.
Makes you wonder when the Military will step in on this rogue government.
That's IF they do. Sorry, I'm having a bad day.
Since Pres. Trump is no longer the President of the United States, Article 1, Section 3's stipulation that the Chief Justice must preside at the trial of a POTUS is no longer applicable.
The presiding officer in impeachment trials for non-presidents (judges, mainly, but apparently now ex-presidents too) is "whoever the Senate picks," and "oldest member of the Senate from the majority party" is pretty standard.
Whether or not Article 1 Section 3's "Chief Justice presides" requirement applies to this impeachment or not has been somewhat in dispute for the past few days -- since he was President when impeached but is no longer at trial -- and apparently it's on the cusp of being settled. (My guess is that Roberts wants to wash his hands of the whole thing and said "please no.")