2020-02-02 at 10:25 PM UTC
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coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
But the actual precedent is a bunch of treasonous radical leftist thugs abusing the impeachment process and disrupting the order of the country strictly for hyper-partisan personal benefit. That's the real danger to the republic. That's the real repercussions.
2020-02-02 at 11:01 PM UTC
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coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
The "science" of today is all about funding. Nothing to do with any actual science. Just playing the lapdog for the highest bidder and selling their once-respected office for big dollars for themselves. That's what this world has come to. The bottom of the barrel.
2020-02-02 at 11:06 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
Originally posted by stl1
The Washington Post
‘A massive historical story’: Trump’s impending acquittal could have profound ramifications for future presidents
Philip Rucker
The evidence of President Trump’s actions to pressure Ukraine was never in serious dispute. After a systematic presentation of the facts of the case, even some Senate Republicans concluded that what he did was wrong.
But neither was the verdict of Trump’s impeachment trial ever in doubt. The Senate’s jurors are scheduled to etch an almost-certain acquittal into the historical record on Wednesday.
The impending judgment that the president’s actions do not warrant his removal from office serves as a testament to Washington’s extraordinary partisan divide and to Trump’s uncontested hold on the Republican base. The expected acquittal also has profound and long-term ramifications for America’s institutions and the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches, according to numerous historians and legal experts.
In effect, they say, the Senate is lowering the bar for permissible conduct for future presidents.
“It’s a dispiriting moment for an American system that in many ways was founded on the insight that, because humankind is frail and fallen and fallible, no one branch of government can have too much power,” said Jon Meacham, an American historian and author. “The president’s party, instead of being a check on an individual’s impulses and ambitions, has become an instrument of them.”
This is not the first instance in which Trump has skirted penalties for wielding the powers of his office for personal or political gain. Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III found that the president repeatedly worked to block or thwart the Russia investigation, acts to obstruct justice that would have prompted charges were he not a sitting president. But Trump sidestepped any punishment then, just as he appears to now with Ukraine.
One of the president’s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, proffered a sweeping argument on the floor of the Senate last week that Trump using the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine to open a corruption investigation into the Bidens was not impeachable or illegal because it was done in pursuit of his reelection.
“If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” Dershowitz said during the trial.
In the face of stinging criticism from constitutional scholars and legal experts, Dershowitz said later on Twitter that his comments were being mischaracterized. “A president seeking re-election cannot do anything he wants,” Dershowitz wrote. “He is not above the law.”
Timothy Naftali, a historian at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, said the arguments advanced on Trump’s behalf in the Senate trial could have lasting consequences for the future of presidential power.
“The Republicans have embraced a theory that permits future abuses of power,” Naftali said. “The outcome of acquittal was predictable . . . but I’m afraid that this process in the Senate is more enabling of an abusive president than expected.”
The nation’s founders gave Congress oversight responsibilities and powers of impeachment as a check on the executive. Yet, with this week’s likely acquittal of Trump, Meacham argues, the Senate instead has become a tool in the president’s perpetuation of his own power.
“It is not hyperbolic to say that the Republican Party treats Donald Trump more like a king than a president,” Meacham said. “That was a central and consuming anxiety of the framers. It is a remarkable thing to watch the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan and the Bushes become an instrument of Donald Trump’s. That’s a massive historical story.”
philip.rucker@washpost.com
full article @ http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-massive-historical-story-trumps-impending-acquittal-could-have-profound-ramifications-for-future-presidents/ar-BBZzB3h?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE01DHP
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2020-02-02 at 11:10 PM UTC
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coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
As if anybody would believe a single word from these fake news idiots, who pushed a fake Russian hoax for two and a half years, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and then didn't even have the guts to admit it. These clowns are a laughing stock, not news.
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2020-02-04 at 12:41 PM UTC
They have their perverted religion called being diehard libtards
