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In reply to the discussion: Laurence Tribe : the Senate can't require the House, to "immediately" whatever is [View all]FBaggins
(26,731 posts)It's their justification for holding back (were they to actually do so).
The Senate rules, the Constitution, pretty much every Constitutional scholar says your point is not true.
Untrue. Tribe admits that the Senate rules say "immediately"... so you can't argue that they say my point is untrue. The Constitution says that the Senate has sole power to try all impeachments. You have yet to cite a single authority that "all" somehow means something other than "all"... and Tribe is not "every Constitutional scholar".
Unless you are saying that the House can't withhold for that reason.
I'm saying that the House can't withhold it at all. They can choose to do something other than impeachment (as Tribe suggested in June)... but once there IS an impeachment... it's part of "all" in "all impeachments".
It's not a fallacy to use an authority as a claim.
You'll have to take that up with the fallacy police. But the fallacy isn't in citing someone who is an authority... it's in saying "He is and you aren't and thus your argument falls"