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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-plans-to-seek-dismissal-of-impeachment-articles/ar-BBYyPV4?ocid=spartanntp*Can this be done?
kentuck
(111,094 posts)Go for it!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And it will make a great clip in his campaigns.
But this is not exactly a Federal trial because it is not being conducted by the Justice Department.
It is a legislative process.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)though the right will continue to pretend it is as they have been.
malaise
(268,993 posts)He's already been impeached -now fuck off.
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)irisblue
(32,973 posts)In training for McConnell position in 20yrs?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The Senate doesn't have that power. The courts don't have the authority to rule on any motion. Sen. Hawley probably doesn't have standing to petition anyone for dismissal.
I eagerly await this legal eagle's ground-breaking motion or petition or whatever.
SWBTATTReg
(22,118 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)LoL.
LiberalFighter
(50,914 posts)Second, that would be a bad publicity stunt if they did it.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and he beat McCaskil?
Why
irisblue
(32,973 posts)Source--http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/why-claire-mccaskill-is-no-kamala-harris-or-dick-durbin/article_5baf5bc8-d03e-11e8-87bf-a7e3acbb4f9e.html
snip--"Missouri is a withering state shrinking in importance with each Census, whose urban areas are stagnant remnants with a strong white racist presence."
snip--" McCaskills strategy is based on several facts. Missouri is an overwhelmingly white state. Missouri is a racist state. The default position for most white Missouri voters is conservative. Most white Missouri voters like Trump, guns, and white nationalism. They dislike abortion, liberals, and blacks. They know Missouri is being left behind educationally, culturally, and economically by more vibrant states that attract a young, multi-cultural workforce, so they retreat behind coded racial rhetoric about Missouri being the real America with heartland values, rather than recognizing that the states decline is because of the very policies they support."
snip--" But while McCaskill vacuums the couch cushions for spare dimes in rural Missouri, the part of the state where she has her richest support is taken for granted. The last time she ran, in 2012, St. Louis city and county went for McCaskill by a breathtaking 69 percent to 27 percent over Todd Legitimate Rape Akin. Yet McCaskill recently complained that her North St. Louis County office in Ferguson has hardly any volunteers showing up. Black voters are holding McCaskill at arms length, reasoning that the only time McCaskill pays much attention to African-American issues is every six years, when the Buffalo Soldier cavalry has to ride to the rescue."
snip--" Hawleys strategy is to dog-whistle his way to Washington by fighting abortion and birth control, supporting voter suppression and discrimination in the name of religion, and giving his audience a double shot of white evangelical morality. Government serves Christs kingdom rule, this is its purpose, Hawley wrote in 2012. Christ has become king and presently rules over the world and earthly government.
Much more at article
We Dems better learn this lesson. Who is the base of the Democratic party?
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Like trying to catch a ball that hasn't been thrown yet.