Senate GOP vows to quickly quash any impeachment charges

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

GOP senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Trump they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has broad authority to set the parameters of a trial.

While McConnell is required to act on articles of impeachment, which require 67 votes or a two-thirds majority to convict the president, he and his Republican colleagues have the power to set the rules and ensure the briefest of trials.

"I think it would be disposed of very quickly," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

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McConnell would have broad authority to determine how a Senate trial would play out. He could stifle the arguments of Democratic prosecutors from the House as long as he's backed up by his fellow GOP senators.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-gop-vows-to-quickly-quash-any-impeachment-charges/ar-AABZDYv?li=BBnb7Kz

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McConnell doesn't do jack shit as it is. Why would we think this would be any different?

[sakabatou]

1. Not surprised.

Republicans would try to squash anything in order to protect their Golden Calf.

[Freethinker65]

2. Even more reason to continue with investigations in the House.

Make the GOP Senate own the POS POTUS.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Call his bluff.

Let the Senate vote to make the impeachment go away.

[GeorgeGist]

10. +1

[lagomorph777]

42. Send the Articles of Impeachment to Mitch...

the day after the election.

[videohead5]

4. The GOP is a crime

Syndicate.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Sticks and Stones from the Turtle?

The minority party leadership has yet to launch an effective narrative. We await the call to action, let the beatings continue until moral improves?

[the_sly_pig]

6. I would like to know how we got here....

..... how 3 or 4 people can hold this entire country hostage. I view the State and people that elected this turtle faced traitor equally responsible for our current situation. And the equally disappointing knowledge that I’ll have to live out my days among traitors. They make me physically sick. Their justification for their behavior makes me sick.

[MBS]

48. you and me both. n/t

[Turbineguy]

7. Yeah. The House or Representatives should do it's job.

Then the Senate republicans can decide who pays better.

[EveHammond13]

8. who cares. we don't take orders from them.

[world wide wally]

9. Then impeach McConnell first

[GeorgeGist]

11. +1

[MineralMan]

39. Senators cannot be impeached, nor removed from office,

except by expulsion by the Senate itself.

Constitution 101.

[world wide wally]

40. Then indict him and throw his fat ass in jail

[MineralMan]

41. Members of Congress cannot be arrested or charged

for anything having to do with their actions or statements while in Congress. Both members of the House and Senate have that protection in the Constitution. The reason for it is pretty simple. See if you can think of why that is written into the Constitution.

Again, Constitution 101.

I encourage you to read the document. That will answer many of your questions.

[yonder]

12. So, before evaluating or even seeing any formal evidence

the House would have developed and presented as a basis for impeachment, the Senate has predetermined the adjudication of their boy, right? That's no different than calling someone guilty with no evidence at all.

Sounds like their boy really could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue with no consequences.

Something is effed up here. GOTV would appear to be the only answer.

[bluestarone]

13. THIS i'm afraid is the story we have today!

He could truly shoot someone on 5th ave. and with this senate get away with it!

[hack89]

16. Impeachment is a political process

It is not a legal one. The Senate can do what they want.

[yonder]

45. I'd argue that Impeachment (House) and Conviction (Senate)

are both prescribed constitutional processes. It would appear the Senate as the judge/jury is irresponsibly failing that process by predetermining the outcome despite the worthiness of any evidence provided by the House.

[hack89]

46. It is still a fundamentally political process

there are not reams of rules, procedures and case law that govern how impeachment will proceed. There is certainly is no mandatory presumption that the Democrats started the process in good faith and therefore the Senate has to take it seriously.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. I no longer believe that even if the ugly thing loses in 2020, will

this nightmare end. The country of my birth, over 70 years ago, is gone. Half the country no longer cares about its founding principles, the Constitution, nor the rule of law. We were destroyed from within.

[Scarsdale]

32. Putin wins.

After all his attempts, he finally owns the USA. McConnell is in business with a Russian oligarch. He overturned sanctions on Russia to make sure his business deal went through. Rubles won over self respect and loyalty to country once again with the gop. Just as the Mueller report has been hidden, to protect tRump, so will the reasons for impeachment be hidden. The democratic politicians had better make certain the reasons for impeaching the orange blob are well documented, and public. Make every crime public, until even the gop will not be able to deny the truth.

[Maxheader]

33. Dad and Uncle...

Both served in ww2..and both laid it on the line for liberty and democracy...
Both would be ashamed of this country today...

[sinkingfeeling]

34. I lost two uncles in France and Italy, both drafted from

their Ohio farm, in WWII.

[groundloop]

15. SO..... carry on investigations with the aim toward maximum political advantage

True, Democratic members of the House need to do their job and investigate tRump's many many many offenses. But if, as McTurtle has promised, an impeachment will get nowhere in the Senate, these investigations need to be done for maximum political impact to ensure that we'll gain control of the White House and Senate.

I feel a bit slimy saying that the House should do things for political gain, but fuck it, GOPers have been playing it that way for decades. Furthermore, it's not like we'd be making up facts but rather we'd simply be putting truthful information out into the open.

[dustyscamp]

17. I wish we could dispose of all these elected officials holding us back in to a giant garbage bin

[Progressive Jones]

18. Use this to destroy the political careers of GOP Sens.

[humbled_opinion]

19. It is a cabal of obstruction of Justice.

I say let them be on record the American people need to hear the truth and hold every one of them accountable, they take this vote and they doom their Senate majority in 2020.

[rockfordfile]

20. Then the gop Senators should be arrested for Obstruction of Justice. They are traitors.

[TomSlick]

21. That would be a mistake.

If the GOP doesn't give some appearance of a real trial, impeachment will become an issue used against them in every Senate election in 2020. Then again, you go Mitch - strangle it in its crib.

[iluvtennis]

22. We know mc turtle won't let the charges go any where, but the House still needs to submit them...

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...it's what our Constitution requires.

[calimary]

27. Yep. The House STILL needs to do its job.

Our Dems STILL need to do what we all worked so hard to flip the House and give them the majority so they could: HOLD THIS SCOUNDREL ACCOUNTABLE.

[sprinkleeninow]

28. Yes, why the Blue Wave happened.

We collectively busted our chops making it a reality, House!

[cstanleytech]

23. Now that the Repugnants have stated they will not impeach him for any reason its time to use

their words against them in the upcoming election as they have exposed themselves for what they truly are which is a criminal enterprise rather than a real political party that only has the best interests of the country in mind.

[SergeStorms]

24. I think a MASSIVE Washington protest is in order.

As long as republicans think Americans don't care about impeachment they'll just sweep it under the rug. It's always party over country for the GOP. A massive protest is needed to get their, and the nation's, attention on this matter. I haven't heard a peep about one, but if I knew how to start one I'd do it. Someone must have a clue how to get this started.

[Bradical79]

25. No shit. Everyone knows this.

They're a treasonous white supremacist party. They like Trump's corruption and disregard for rule of law.

[sandensea]

26. Mitch McCocaine is trying to 'Ping May' this, if you will.

Bury it in a ton of coal, and quietly dispose of it.

[sprinkleeninow]

29. Oh, man. This is gettin' real good now.

Down to the nitty gritty.

[beachbum bob]

30. if GOP does this, they will pay the price in Nov 2020 and beyond, the great majority of americans

will reject this ploy

[watoos]

31. I thought that Chief Justice Roberts

ran the impeachment trial in the Senate? Guess I was wrong.

[FBaggins]

44. His position is essentially ceremonial

The Senate makes its own rules. Even where the current rules give the CJ the power to do something (e.g., rule on the admissibility of particular evidence), it's always subject to a vote of the Senate.

[humbled_opinion]

35. I am sick of this..

If we don't impeach tRump than we lose all credibility for any future GOP President or politician that commits gross misconduct in office, if tRump becomes the standard for why we won't impeach, than we are screwed as a nation.

[ladjf]

36. How proud they must be, adding and abetting a rising dictator. nt

[Firestorm49]

37. High crimes and misdemeanors, if proven, are cause for impeachment no matter what.

Just more proof of the trouble we’re in.

[Ford_Prefect]

38. Investigate the relationship between Mitch and Oleg Deripaska

It goes back at least as far as Trump & Putin.

[machoneman]

43. Note so sure since this article makes it sound like ALL Republiscum Senators are for quashing.....

any impeachment. Sure, Little Lindsey has been the most vocal opponent and yes, McTurtle controls the vote yet one can bet many will squirm their word to say yes, Trump's a bad actor but it doesn't rise to impeachment. They will also use the Mueller report as weasel words that since he could not impeach Trump, why should I?

They want to have it both ways to fend off our Democratic attacks that they have ignored their responsibilities.

[INdemo]

47. Send the articles of Impeachment to the Senate.

Let the Voters know that Democrats in the House do have a backbone.
When AOI gets to the Senate, fill the streets in front of the Senate Building and demand action.
This will surely let the voters decide which party they want to maintain the House and which Party they want to retake the Senate.
If Democrats do nothing than they are as much at fault to allow the Dictator to destroy our Democracy as the Republicans.