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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 11:06 AM Dec 2019

GOP tries to block 2020 Democrats from impeachment in latest stunt

This article is from yesterday and this jerk is fascist....................maybe he should re-read his allegiance to defend and protect the Constitution,
By
Josh Israel -
December 5, 2019 5:45 PM


Much of the GOP's response to Trump's Ukraine scandal has been to try to divert attention.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) is introducing a resolution demanding that the GOP-controlled Senate exclude anyone running for president from participating in Trump's increasingly likely impeachment trial. This is the latest in a series of stunts by Trump and his congressional GOP defenders aimed at distracting from Trump's conduct.

Smith's resolution urges the Senate to change its rules "to require a sitting United States Senator actively seeking election to the Presidency of the United States to recuse himself of herself" from the impeachment trial for any first-term incumbent president. Such a move would exclude Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and the millions they represent from having a say on whether to remove the president for high crimes and misdemeanors.

With a Democratic House majority, the resolution is unlikely to make it to the floor — much less be adopted. But it comes on the heals of an array of other stunts and bizarre arguments made by Trump and his GOP defenders in recent weeks.



https://americanindependent.com/jason-smith-impeachment-donald-trump-senate-missouri-gop-2020-election-republicans/

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough

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GOP tries to block 2020 Democrats from impeachment in latest stunt (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2019 OP
Must be worried some GOP will be voting to convict Captain Zero Dec 2019 #1
Or a massive case of the Red Flu.... OneBlueDotBama Dec 2019 #2
A Dem should introduce a resolution that no senators should be allowed to participate if NYC Liberal Dec 2019 #3
Or receive any campaign contributions directly or indirectly from Trump LiberalFighter Dec 2019 #5
Or had lunch with him or played golf with him or had a private jaysunb Dec 2019 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2019 #4
Good news. .. GeorgeGist Dec 2019 #7
How about a resolution declaring that members of the House shall not seek to interfere with onenote Dec 2019 #8

NYC Liberal

(20,132 posts)
3. A Dem should introduce a resolution that no senators should be allowed to participate if
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 11:25 AM
Dec 2019

they’ve publicly endorsed Trump for re-election.

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onenote

(42,379 posts)
8. How about a resolution declaring that members of the House shall not seek to interfere with
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 01:22 PM
Dec 2019

the Senate's Constitutionally delegated "sole power" to try all impeachments.

The House has no Constitutional basis for telling the Senate how to conduct an impeachment.

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