I don't think an impeached President should give the State of the Union Address.

[machI]

Nancy Pelosi should bar Trump from the House. What do you think?

[tazkcmo]

1. Or appoint anybody

To anything.

[onenote]

2. Did you know that Clinton gave a state of the union while his Senate trial was ongoing?

He was impeached on December 19, 1998 and his trial began on January 7, 1999 and was not concluded until February 12. He gave his state of the union address on January 19, 1999.

[machI]

3. The Speaker of the House sets the rules.

Trump should be prohibited from giving the address.

[onenote]

5. Not going to happen.

Plus, he'd be thrilled to have an excuse not to give it in the House chamber and instead deliver it in an arena filled with his adoring supporters.

[FBaggins]

8. Not exactly

She controls the House chamber where the address is traditionally given.

The requirement is that the President "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient". He doesn't have to give a speech at all (it could be a letter)... but if it's a speech he could do it anywhere he wants (except for the House of course).

Remember that this was actually floated this past January. Pelosi considered disinviting him due to the government shutdown.

[sdfernando]

14. Have him send a letter...enter it into the record but don't evern read it on the floor /nt

[FBaggins]

16. Unfortunately, that isn't within our power

We can keep him fro delivering the speech on the floor... but we can’t keep him from giving it at all.

[Jose Garcia]

22. Not in the Senate chamber

[morningglory]

4. I want to hear the idiot make a fool of himself.

nt

[John Fante]

6. Gump does that literally every time he opens his mouth.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. +1000

It should be a speech for the history books -- an impeached narcissistic president going on and on about how he wasn't really impeached, etc.

[crickets]

21. This is the better option. Even with a script, he won't be able to do it without making a mess. nt

[Raven123]

7. Not an option

Article 2 Section 3: “ He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;”

You can quibble over the details and whether he should be permitted to speak on the floor of Congress, but I don’t think that is a battle worth having

[XRubicon]

10. And what does it say about appointing supreme court justices

I dont think it says anything about letting the voters decide if it's the last year of the president's term.

So, she should let the voters decide if he should give a sotu.

[onenote]

11. All she can do is keep him from giving it in the House chamber

He could -- and probably would happily -- rent out an arena and give it there to a crowd of adoring Magats with full coverage from all of the news media.

[FBaggins]

17. A key difference

The Senate has the power to reject or even ignore a nominee. They shouldn’t, but it’s in their power and has been done by parties. The House doesn’t have the power to say that the president can’t deliver what the constitution requires.

One is an abuse of discretion ... the other is a lack of it.

[Wednesdays]

18. It does not have to be in the form of a speech

In fact, it was not a regular speech event until about a hundred years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union#History

[Codeine]

12. I remember when I used to say anything that popped into my head.

Granted, I was five or six at the time, but I still remember.

[empedocles]

32. Frequent problem around these parts - at all ages

[tanyev]

13. Wow, I hadn't thought about that.

You know he’ll want to use it for airing all his grievances against the Democrats.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. I want to see how he acts on Nancy Pelosi's turf, with her sitting behind him. 😂

[coti]

19. I totally agree with you. Pelosi needs to hold that back too, until we start seeing a sincere

desire for justice and a respect for facts from the GOP.

[coti]

20. You know, some people say a President shouldn't get a SOTU address in the last year of his term

anyway. Instead, I think the next President should get his/her inaugural and then another SOTU address.

[onenote]

29. "some people"? Have some links so we can assess who these some people are?

[orleans]

23. i'm not watching it

i'll get the lowdown from the news and from here

i'm not gonna spend part of an evening looking and listening to that asshole

[Progressive Jones]

24. Oh, I want him to make that speech. It can only hurt him. That's a good thing. NT

[roamer65]

25. Give him more rope to hang himself.

Let the piece of shit do it.

[NanceGreggs]

26. I am not seriously espousing this tack ...

… but I DO fantasize about Nancy introducing the SOTU address the same way Nunes et al characterized the impeachment hearings:

"Welcome to yet another sham of a State of the Union address, where we are again about to be entertained by the Russian-colluding traitor citing his never-ending litany of conspiracy theories about how the ‘deep state’ is trying to bring him down.”

This intro would be followed by Giuliani rushing onstage, waving around his cell-phone, while claiming to have found the ultimate ‘dirt’ on Biden – as he was duly authorized to do by the State Department!

[dalton99a]

27. Tell him to submit his report to Congress in writing and by courier.

[onenote]

28. and then he'll read it at a rally at a big arena with adoring supporters

In fact, I'm certain he'd love the excuse to do that.

[rampartc]

30. put a few ball bearings on the podium and watch him go full tilt bogart.

[DFW]

31. He'll give his speech, and he'll make it a 45 minute-long whine about Democrats persecuting him

It'll make the "Checkers" speech seem like a factual lecture on sandstone formations.