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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Impeachment Elephant in the Room
Can someone here, that's smarter than me, please explain Mitch McConnell's lame ass excuse that the Senate had no jurisdiction over a former president?
"But after intense reflection, I believe the best constitutional reading shows that Article II, Section 4 exhausts the set of persons who can legitimately be impeached, tried, or convicted. The President, Vice President, and civil officers. We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."
[link:https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mcconnell-remarks-trump-acquittal/index.html|
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The Impeachment Elephant in the Room (Original Post)
djacq
Feb 2021
OP
"Yes, he's guilty as sin and should be punished, but since the trial ran long..."
tinrobot
Feb 2021
#7
dweller
(23,617 posts)1. Moscow Mitch
is a weasel in turtle shell clothing ..
cant be trusted
✌🏻
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. This says it all
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)3. Mitch - interpreting and bending the law for as long as I can remember.
I think you already said it - Lame ass excuse.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)4. Because that sounds marginally better than:
"We didn't convict him because he's a republican", to people who are too dumb to know that was the real reason.
Oldem
(833 posts)6. Right answer! But if it had been a Democrat on trial
for the exact crime, guess what Moscow Mitch would have said, then.
Joinfortmill
(14,397 posts)5. He's a boldface liar. He set the whole thing up this way.
tinrobot
(10,888 posts)7. "Yes, he's guilty as sin and should be punished, but since the trial ran long..."
I'll do nothing and let you guys do the hard work of a criminal indictment.