The Impeachment Elephant in the Room

[djacq]

Can someone here, that's smarter than me, please explain Mitch McConnell's lame ass excuse that the Senate had no jurisdiction over a former president?

"But after intense reflection, I believe the best constitutional reading shows that Article II, Section 4 exhausts the set of persons who can legitimately be impeached, tried, or convicted. The President, Vice President, and civil officers. We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mcconnell-remarks-trump-acquittal/index.html

[dweller]

1. Moscow Mitch

is a weasel in turtle shell clothing ..

can’t be trusted


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[soothsayer]

2. This says it all

[Marie Marie]

3. Mitch - interpreting and bending the law for as long as I can remember.

I think you already said it - Lame ass excuse.

[Salviati]

4. Because that sounds marginally better than:

"We didn't convict him because he's a republican", to people who are too dumb to know that was the real reason.

[Oldem]

6. Right answer! But if it had been a Democrat on trial

for the exact crime, guess what Moscow Mitch would have said, then.

[Joinfortmill]

5. He's a boldface liar. He set the whole thing up this way.

[tinrobot]

7. "Yes, he's guilty as sin and should be punished, but since the trial ran long..."

I'll do nothing and let you guys do the hard work of a criminal indictment.