Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The entire impeachment process is bringing into focus serious constitutional questions. First, Congress must actually send the impeachment documents to the Senate. This cannot be done simply on a phone call or by telling the press. Pelosi has now delayed sending the articles of Impeachment for the Democrats are playing games. All along they claimed that Trump’s actions placed the nation is a situation of immediate danger. Adam Schiff has the audacity to say: “We’ve got to move this along because Donald Trump is a clear and present danger.” He added: “‘We can’t wait for him conceivably to do something.”
Now the Democrats are delaying trying to interfere in the Senate and they are clearly trying to stage a coup against Trump on grounds that are not a basis for impeachment. The clear and present danger is this partisan rigging of the rules to overthrow the president of the United States. Never has anything ever risen to such a level. Even if they succeeded to take the Senate and the White House and impose effectively Martial law to install a Marxist form of government, the retaliation from the Republican would reach the same level of chaos. The only way to prevent that would be to suspend the Constitution claiming an immediate threat to the nation.
Such a scheme has taken place throughout history and that would indeed lead to civil war. So I fail to see why the Democrats are acting so outrageously. Nixon was impeached by a bipartisan vote. This is down party lines. This is so hateful and divisive to the country, the Democrats seem to have lost all reason.
We have such a disparity in legal standards here it is unbelievable. The Democrats refuse to abide by the same rules that governed Clinton’s impeachment trial in the Senate. They are trying to prevent Trump from calling witnesses in his defense. You would think this was some third-world dictatorship. On top of that, they are seriously trying to recuse Mitch McConnell claiming he is biased when Pelosi instructed all Democrats to vote the party line regardless of their beliefs.
Then there is the fact that Joe Biden publicly admitted that he personally withheld $1 billion in a loan grant from Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating the company that hired his son. Under the standards they are applying to Trump, Biden should be impeached and prevented from running for office ever again.
The Inspector General’s report has confirmed that the Obama Administration was investigating, wiretapping, and even had uncover-agents inside Trump’s campaign. That reaches Watergate levels of interfering with an election. The Inspector General report stated:
“We also identified several individuals who had either a connection to candidate Trump or a role in the Trump campaign, and were also FBI CHSs, but who were not tasked as part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
“One such CHS did provide the Crossfire Hurricane team with general information about Crossfire Hurricane subjects Page and Manafort, but we found that this CHS had no further involvement in the investigation.”
That was a clear reference to the notorious Carter Page, who was an adviser whom the FBI wiretapped for a year in addition to former campaign manager Paul Manafort. The audacity of this mess shows there is clearly a denial of Equal Protection of the Law.
Even if the Democrats were able to remove Trump by all of these shenanigans, he would refuse to leave the office and the entire thing would go to the Supreme Court who would overrule the entire process. I have never seen just such a wholesale denial of everything the Constitution stood for. The government is totally collapsing.
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“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” – George W. Bush
George was correct. It is just a damned piece of paper and no longer relevant in today’s environment. I wish it were otherwise, but it is what it is.
The Deep State IS the government and the (S)elected officials are just actors playing their part, including Trump. The US Dollar is in the process of turning into toilet paper and when that becomes evident to everyone, the SHTF moment will commence. Everything else is a distraction, including all things related to that buffoon in the oval office.
“including Trump”
they’re not acting like it. they’re acting hysterically angry, irrationally angry, taking-chances angry, banging-the-table-and-see-if-that-changes-anything angry.
“The US Dollar is in the process of turning into toilet paper and when that becomes evident to everyone, the SHTF moment will commence.”
yeah, been hearing that for ten, no, eleven years now ….
look, everybody knows the “u.s.” (it’s not) dollar is toilet paper, they’ve known it for at least a decade, probably a lot longer. it’s just that there’s nowhere else to go, so everyone’s gonna ride it all the way into the ground – and that’s a long ways down.
slick move by pelosi, really. she gets to tell her base that she impeached trump, but she doesn’t have to take responsibility for it, and there will be no embarrassing trial in the senate shredding numerous democrats called in to testify under oath. she’s good.
Sorry Martin, but President Nixon was not Impeached. He resigned.
We have arrived. A democracy in name only.
“A democracy in name only”
well there’s still the cartridge box.
theirs are a bit bigger though ….
“democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for lunch”-constitutional republic.
VERY obvious errors in the story:
1. “First, Congress must actually send the impeachment documents to the Senate.”
Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2. “Nixon was impeached by a bipartisan vote.”
Nixon was NOT impeached. Impeachment was passed out of the Judiciary Committee on a bi-partisan vote, but he resigned before the House could vote on the actual Articles.
3. “…the entire thing would go to the Supreme Court who would overrule the entire process.”
SCOTUS will not touch this with a 10-ft pole. It is a political maneuver by the House and they will let the Senate deal with it. Roberts will preside over the Senate “trial”, but will actually say very little, leaving it to the politicians to sully themselves.
Wrong in your #1.
There is absolutely nothing in the constitution that they actually have to send paperwork to the senate.
All they have to do is to vote for it.
The ‘paper-work’ thing is just a formal proceedure–and not constitutionally mandated.
The ball is now in the Senate’s court.
Correct on point’s two and three though.
I was referring to his use of the word Congress when in reality, it is the House.
They did the impeachment in the basement and locked out house republicans and got away with it. Now they want to dictate the senate. They are obviously using it as a campaign political narrative just as they accused trump of doing. If they were smart they would have waited and hoped they took over the senate too. Now they want to delay in hopes they take it in November and then really kick trump out of office. I do not think they realize they will actually start a shooting civil war if they continue doing these things.
The left will delay sending to the senate. They will concentrate their efforts on only winning the senate. The day before the election they will send over the articles of impeachment so if they win the senate it will be sitting there for them to vote impeachment and remove trump. This is an open coup if they do this people will rise up. Argh. I doubt it. They would not want to miss the bachelorette…..
Sorry–wrong. The resolution has an expiration date–and it is before the election.
I believe it is January 1st.