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This article is from yesterday and this jerk is fascist....................maybe he should re-read his allegiance to defend and protect the Constitution,
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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
Captain Zero
(6,714 posts)nt
OneBlueDotBama
(1,371 posts)Meaning the senate "to remove" vote is based on, those present.
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)theyve publicly endorsed Trump for re-election.
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)or any campaign assistance.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Meeting w Malania or Ivanka.
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GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)They're afraid that Nancy has the votes to impeach the MFer?
onenote
(42,379 posts)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.