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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEven if Kav is confirmed Saturday....if we win, DEMS can reopen and impeach Kav...some hope?
So Tweety is wetting his drawers that FBI report is completed at midnite and McConnell only showing to the 100 Senators....Rick Rosenberg is so calm and cool...he says that is how it is done....then...Cynthia Axney says even if Kav is confirmed Saturday....if we win, DEMS can reopen and impeach Kav. Some hope for us?
madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)That is never going to happen.
john657
(1,058 posts)the Senate tries, convicts and removes with 2/3 vote, which just isn't going to happen.
madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)The Senate convicts.
Trump could be Jack the Ripper and the republicans wouldn't care.
john657
(1,058 posts)with hundreds of witnesses and the pubs would applaud him.
Sigh, I'm at the point where I'm about to just give up and say fuck it.
brooklynite
(94,716 posts)jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)the judge on SC....I edited my post.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)uponit7771
(90,359 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)Subpoena a sitting Judge or Justice. Not sure how that would work, but I suspect he wouldn't have to appear due to separation of powers issues. There is a remedy to remove a Justice from the court.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)(which this would inevitably be, as the odds of gaining that much control of the Senate in the foreseeable future seem quite poor) is worse than no impeachment at all. Look how much damage the Republicans took by pushing impeachment with Clinton.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)its the Constitution.
john657
(1,058 posts)but it would take a change to the Constitution, not a rules change in the Senate.
And I don't want to make it easy for future pub controlled congress to impeach, try, convict and remove any Dems.
BumRushDaShow
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Section 3.
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The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
sarisataka
(18,755 posts)But it requires two-thirds of the Senate to convict
If Democrats were to sweep Senate elections they would have 58 Senators...
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Then even the GOP Senators will have to vote to impeach. It will work. All it will take is a Democrat in the White House and a AG who uphold's the law. Now getting rid of Trump will take impeachment.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)sarisataka
(18,755 posts)We can revisit the status of the presume Supreme Court Justice? In the meanwhile Trump is not going anywhere.
Does that about sum it up?
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Investigate in the House. Involve law enforcement in some fashion. Demonstrate an actual crime (lying during confirmation is a good one). Then have the crime charged.
The ought for an indicted Supreme to stay a Supreme with a criminal charge or conviction. Can one dispense Supreme verdicts from jail?
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)In fact beyond the fact that I think Ye Olde Founding Fathers probably assumed that anyone who would be seated on the court would be a biped of some sort, there are really no constitutional requirements. Not age or citizenship or no criminal record or anything.
Amazing, isn't it?
Amishman
(5,559 posts)67 Senators is the only way, and I just don't see it being possible with the number of red states
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)but there isn't anything that says a Justice has to be Lawyer, much less one in good standing with the ABA.
still, if he is proven to be a perjurer and is disbarred for that, it would be a lot harder for the Senate not to convict and remove.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)But she did say the reason would be theyre going to be tied up Impeaching Trump.
Well see on both potential Impeachments
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Response to jodymarie aimee (Original post)
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fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Any of these suspects will suffice.