Democrats want to force the president into defying a court order upholding a House document request in order to justify a full-blown impeachment proceeding.
Federalist:
Exhibit A in the upcoming impeachment proceedings, if you believe Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), is this transcript of a phone call between President Trump and the president of Ukraine. Anyone capable of passing a middle school civics test already knows an “impeachment inquiry” of the kind Democrats have announced is only step one in the process.
In a Senate with 47 non-Republicans, the “get Trump” forces must convince 20 Republican senators to vote to expel the president for a House impeachment effort to succeed. This is because Article I of the Constitution requires that two-thirds of senators vote to convict to expel the president. If all 100 senators are present, 67 must vote to get rid of Trump. This seems impossible based upon the current state of affairs.
So what is behind the coordinated media and Democrat campaign to drum up an “impeachment inquiry”? In one 24-hour period, the media rolled out the same Trump-Ukraine story with the same angle and often the same talking points within the same few hours on CNN, the Intelligencer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vox, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Beast, to name a few examples.
More tellingly, the phrase “in plain sight” appears over and over again in the supposedly independent media outlets that, in theory, wrote the articles at the same time, making it difficult or impossible for them to have directly copied from each other. Google search results bury the first dissenting coverage near the bottom of the second page. Of course they’re colluding with each other and coordinating with Democrats, but that’s another article for a different day.
To understand the significance of an “impeachment inquiry,” we need to go back to a blitz of document requests that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrod Nadler sent in March 2019. Nadler sent requests to a withering list of 81 government officials, citizens, corporations, and probably a few zoo animals and cartoon characters. Each included a “schedule” of requested documents designed to burden and harass each of the unlucky recipients. The one to the White House requested a huge list of document categories, including any documents furnished to the special counsel team.
Since at least March, Nadler and other House Democrats have engaged in a public fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to force the House into a formal impeachment proceeding. Rep. Ro Khanna explained Nadler’s strategy: “What happens next is dependent on the courts. If the courts rule against the administration and the administration defies a court order, then I think it is a full-blown crisis.”
Congress’s authority to request documents is dependent on whether it has a legitimate legislative purpose for the documents. The purpose of the House invoking the phrase “impeachment inquiry” is to create a pretext to argue in court that it has a right to the documents.
The White House brushed off many of Nadler’s requests in this May 15, 2019 letter denying the requests because Nadler had “not articulated any proper legislative purpose” for pursuing matters already investigated by Robert Mueller, for example. Because impeachment is one of the enumerated functions of the House, document requests relevant to an “impeachment inquiry” might be able to overcome this objection.
The strategy of declaring an “impeachment inquiry” actually has little or nothing to do with a serious effort to put a case in front of the Senate based upon existing wrongdoing. Rather, it calls to mind the technique used to snare so many victims of the get Trump movement: the process crime. Democrats want to force the president into defying a court order upholding a House document request in order to meet the Khanna test for a full-blown impeachment proceeding. read more
This is too complicated for the general public. Trump is toast.
And the whole ugly conspiracy is being played out before our eyes as bagpipe music plays away.
Zonga
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019 AT 7:53 AM
“This is too complicated for the general public. Trump is toast.”
…If the Democrats pull this off, we then have a choice between compliace with a perverted, dictatorial, unconstitutional, Communist state, and fulfilling our obligations under the Second Amendment.
…I, for one, will not line up for the boxcar. I was prepared to fight for my Country if Hillary had stolen the election in ’16.
I still am.
…some good advice, of it comes to that, something to consider for each person if this choice has to be faced…
“…And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , “The Gulag Archipelago”
…you might die fighting for freedom. Perhaps we all will.
Or you can line up for orderly disposal, maybe get picked for medical experimemts, special “interrogation”, Muslim breeding programs, or even get lucky and only have to work in the cane fields till you drop.
Your choice…
This is going to be a bloody mess. Send money, guns and lawyers, the excrement is about to hit the revolving blades again. This Impeachment is going to happen as sure as the MSDM is biased and salivating for Trump’s head on a pike. Where were they when Osmidgen was sending all that cash to the Mad Mullahs in Iran? Wasn’t that an impeachable offense? We live in a time when enemies of the people abound inside the Federal Government. They had eight years to Fundamentally Transform the Intelligence Agencies, and this is how they are getting even for their setback.
Sure. Make shit up and run with it.
democRATz have been working on that since 2000!
Anyone up for a box of Ballot chads?
They’ve been doing this the last 2 years. Nothing has changed. Congress has very low ratings and this will backfire on them. Visually, it looks like Trump is getting picked on (he is).
This whole impeachment bullshit is just that, pandering to bullshitheads. The Dopes know they’ve already selected an old, racist white person as their candidate. So this is just an effort to keep their radicals in line.
@Zonga
Fighting for our constitution is ‘too complicated’. I’m just so tired of Nannyism.
Americans are NOT stupid, deplorable, or incapable of following the bobbleheaded dipshits trying to destroy us, so that they can continue to enjoy their elitist’s criminal lives.
It amazes me that anyone can be blind to the pandering of the left. They have more excuses to ‘take care of you’ than a teenage boy uses to get into a girl’s pants.
Trump brought all of this on himself.
It started when he came down that escalator at the Trump Tower.
It gained speed when he started winning primaries by defeating Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
It accelerated when Trump got the nomination and won all those debates with the most qualified person to ever run for anything in the history of this country.
It really got serious when he won all those electoral college votes.
Then, Trump didn’t commit obstruction of Justice when he was being hounded by Robespierre Mueller.
What really caused Trump’s problems happened when he kept his promises to Make America Great Again.
It’s all President Donald J. Trump’s fault.