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Re: Donald Trump Has Been Impeached. What's Next? [serious discussion]
by
Viper1
on 31/01/2020, 23:15:57 UTC
It's is utterly amazing reading the discussions the founders had regarding impeachment. Everything that they are saying today mirrors what was argued way back then. In the end, what the defense is saying etc is exactly everything that the founders rejected which is why the "high crimes and misdemeanors" is in there and that it is fairly broad in what it means.
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Bottom line, After going through reams of this stuff, I have little doubt that the founders would have impeached and convicted Trump in a second. I also think they would be appalled by what has become of their creation.

I was jumping around from site to site yanking out a few quotes here and there as a lot of it was "opinion" and I wanted to try and find quotes etc. I failed to note each and every site. Sorry, but here are a couple I used.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-founding-fathers-debate-over-what-constituted-impeachable-offense-180965083/
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/779938819/fractured-into-factions-what-the-founders-feared-about-impeachment

Sounds like you could have done a better job than Schiff et al, I thought they were unstructured and disorganized in their work in the House, weak and illogical in the 2 charges brought, poor in the wording, and impossibly weak in the defense of the charges in the Senate.

Yeah, I have little good to say about the majority of any of them on either side especially today. They are almost all useless, worthless, self serving unethical scum bags who put self interest above country and the constitution. I"m a tad negative about it all today. They have one last chance to at least put a bandaid on it but I don't think they will.