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the courts have something to say about impeachment. In his loony-toons press briefing, he said he didn't think the courts "would allow it" in reference to impeachment.
Once again, he demonstrates an almost total lack of knowledge about how our system of government operates.
The federal courts have no authority over the congressional responsibility for impeachment. None. Zip. Nada.
Trump will be in for a "bigly" surprise, if the decision to begin impeachment inquiries is made.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)doubt he could even pass a US citizenship exam. He also doesn't get that when it comes to sheer innate intelligence in the US government echelons, he's at the bottom of the totem pole.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)he couldn't pass a US citizenship exam.
SunSeeker
(51,728 posts)Meadowoak
(5,562 posts)He says. It's only designed to create confusion and muddy the waters.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)up to him, his utter incompetence. His base is even more stupid than he is, quite frankly.
This term of office will go down in history as the strangest Presidency ever to occur in the United States of America.
flying_wahini
(6,659 posts)Trumps next term isnt worse.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)Unless we're incredibly stupid and don't ensure that Democrats go to the polls in historic numbers, he's not going to have a second term. I still think he will not finish this one, for several possible reasons.
malaise
(269,188 posts)He really is a fucking dunce - neither stable nor a genius
A great Christian! Ask him.
malaise
(269,188 posts)I just had an LOL of biblical proportions!
malaise
(269,188 posts)3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)...IN a stable.
malaise
(269,188 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)and certainly doesn't understand or care what it says.
pandr32
(11,617 posts)...so I would say he hasn't even tried. Why would he care? He makes up his own rules as he goes along, anyway.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)He thinks they'll save him from impeachment. Proof that he knows he deserves it.
kedrys
(7,678 posts)Part of his bullying pattern. Because thats worked out so well for him so far.
Were going to need a lot more popcorn.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Trump thinks that with the appointments of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh he owns the Supreme Court and they will do his bidding. When he was just a crooked real estate developer he used the legal system to get what he wanted because he had the resources to sue or threaten to sue, or to defend against the many lawsuits brought by the people he stiffed and cheated. He thinks he can do the same thing as president.
Not so fast, Spanky.
Just apart from the fact that his only use for the Constitution is as toilet paper, which means that he doesn't know that the courts have no jurisdiction over the impeachment process, he will be in for a shock when the Supreme Court rules against him in some other case, as they inevitably will. What he doesn't get is that judges are very protective of their function as an equal branch of government, and that judges with lifetime appointments don't owe him anything - and they know it. In fact, I can imagine his appointees thinking to themselves, if only subconsciously, "That fcker doesn't own me!" Cabinet appointees have to grovel and smile like members of Stalin's Politburo in order to keep their jobs, but federal judges don't. Trump focused almost entirely on Roe v. Wade when he decided on Supreme Court appointees as if abortion was the only issue the court was ever going to consider. But the "conservative" judges aren't going to hand Trump everything he wants. Far from it. The only thing an originalist judge like Gorsuch is likely to hand Trump is his ass if the court hears those subpoena cases.
And what will Trump tweet when the Supreme Court rules against him in some case? He'll be enraged. He'll call those justices "low intelligence," weak and disloyal. He'll threaten to fire them, which of course he can't. It will be great fun to watch.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)when baby Trump doesn't get his way.
So it'll cost the govt millions to go to court to have them say that Congress can impeach.
Talitha
(6,619 posts)malaise
(269,188 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He won't be removed from office. And it takes time to impeach. The investigations will continue, impeachment hearing will start. He'll sue immediately, before impeachment vote. The court will stay the impeachment until it can hear arguments.
Even if it were after the impeachment vote in the House, he'll still be President. Only the Senate can remove him from office. And they won't.
The House impeachment will be on paper only, for historical purposes. Like Bill Clinton's was.
Initech
(100,105 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)He knows (or has been told) who has the power to impeach.
Maru Kitteh
(28,343 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)NDAs, out lawyering, dragging shit out, probably bribery etc.
Oh, there was also his daddy s wallet.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)And I suppose he figures if he can keep his ignorant supporters thinking that every move against him is somehow illegitimate, he might be able to undermine the process. So much of what he does seems designed to throw the legitimacy of the system itself into question--which of course pays huge dividends on putin's investment in his campaign, whether it winds up saving trump or not. Ugh.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Goodheart
(5,345 posts)Republicans such as my siblings do not trust intellectuals.
magicarpet
(14,175 posts)trDump's butt boys on the Supreme Court would not allow trDump to be impeached.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)Just need to stop right there.
VOX
(22,976 posts)All moronic claims made by President First-Person Singular. Its his world, population 1. And like any spoiled rich toddlers perception, everything in sight is MINE!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)he thinks that he can tie up subpoenas, etc. in the courts indefinitely and drag everything out. That has been his MO pretty much his whole life so that he wears everybody out and escapes consequences again and again.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)and that he thinks he has Roberts in his pocket and he'll protect him by not holding impeachment hearings?