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In reply to the discussion: Not impeaching Trump would make a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruin our country. [View all]Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)67. Letting him be above the law
is wonderful optics also
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Not impeaching Trump would make a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruin our country. [View all]
shockey80
Dec 2018
OP
It'd say the president can do anything the president wants to do, the president is above the law.
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#3
You give "the American people" more credit than they generally show they deserve.
onenote
Dec 2018
#29
Is there a reliable poll showing a majority of the American people support impeachment at this time?
onenote
Dec 2018
#33
+1,000,000 This! This is where the media acts as "fourth estate" - if branches of gov't are at a
diva77
Dec 2018
#22
Exactly. A website listing Trump's impeachable offenses is having trouble keeping up. That's
diva77
Dec 2018
#25
What it accomplishes is to establish that the law comes first and partisan expediency comes after.
paulkienitz
Dec 2018
#58
And then he's acquitted in the Senate.......aka declared "Not guilty". Wonderful optics.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#61
Agreed! Impeachment, without a remote possibility of conviction would only strengthen Trump, and...
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2018
#13
This isn't a case of someone lying about an affair. This is a case of the most criminal president...
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#17
+1. "Hey, we know he's guilty, but we don't know if the jury is going to convict or not,
dalton99a
Dec 2018
#75
I don't agree with the assumption that it's Democrats who would suffer blowback.
Garrett78
Dec 2018
#48
I'm pretty sure congress can impeach, run committees and pass new legislation
Equinox Moon
Dec 2018
#27
Impeaching Trump only to have the Senate exonerate him is just as much a farce.
tandem5
Dec 2018
#47
I don't agree. It pretty much ruins the impeached person forever, and I have no problem doing that
BamaRefugee
Dec 2018
#50
Impeachment didn't ruin Bill Clinton, it increased his popularity. So your premise is wrong. nt
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2018
#73
THE FIX IS ALREADY IN. I watched Jerry Nadler, on THE LAST WORD, say that impeachment would...
BamaRefugee
Dec 2018
#49
Impeaching is not the issue its getting the Senate to convict after that is the issue
cstanleytech
Dec 2018
#52
If HIGH CRIMES deserving of impeachment are exposed, then the House should IMPEACH
Martin Eden
Dec 2018
#56
You need 2/3 of the Senate and overwhelming evidence of high crimes. It's not simple.
LBM20
Dec 2018
#60
It's REPUBLICANS who have made a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruined our country
EleanorR
Dec 2018
#66