So the jury “foreman” has already violated the oath he must take: Senate Rules in Impeachment Trials provides the text: “I solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution.”
“The case is so darn weak coming over from the House. We all know how it’s going to end,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Sean Hannity. “There is no chance the president is going to be removed from office.”
Our Three Branches of Government at work: The White House, the Senate and Fox News.
“Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with the White House counsel,” McConnell said. “There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can.”
Yup… but we already knew that this is how it will go. The Republicans have sold their collective souls to Putin and lick Russian ass.
On a much happier note… just went to the post office and my chocolate shipment from OldSeaHag has come in….. YUM!
I suspect Moscow Mitch is going to pack it in and live on his retirement income, Russian income and his wife’s income. Being a left hand for SFB means you are no longer an American. He no longer cares for America, Russia is his life now.
So sick of Trump lies about Ukraine aid. European nations have contributed two-thirds of all aid to Ukraine since Russia seized Crimea
craig, are those the old or new Senate Rules you cited and isn’t it likely some changes will be made prior to the January trial?
example: “I solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial, I will do everything I am instructed to do by the President and
impartial justiceaccording to and in coordination with the White House CounselConstitution.”“I’ll do whatever I want” at the Senate trial.
[thus saith lil trump rex]
the hill:
Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) on Friday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to recuse himself from the Senate impeachment trial, citing the GOP leader’s remarks the previous night about coordinating with the White House.
McConnell said during an interview on Fox News on Thursday night that “everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can.”
Demings accused the GOP leader of promising to “sabotage” the trial.
“No court in the country would allow a member of the jury to also serve as the accused’s defense attorney. The moment Senator McConnell takes the oath of impartiality required by the Constitution, he will be in violation of that oath,” she said in a statement.
Demings, who sits on the House Intelligence and Judiciary panels that have led the impeachment inquiry, pointed to Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution. The section states: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation.”
The “Oath” is defined by Senate rules and reads: “I solemnly swear (or affirm) that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of President Donald John Trump, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: So help me God.”
The Hill has reached out to McConnell’s office for comment.
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How do you know you have a Denver Omelette?
It has a brown cloud over it.
c. 1984
Here’s the gringly* part. The right folks genuinely accept for a fact that god is on their side and not on ours. They have a character whom they think to be on our side, and his name is Satin, ( as in low gloss).
The left seems to somehow generally grasp the fact that god is, in fact—on everybody’s side, all at once, as in omnipresent. Quite a conundrum. Like being snagged by the horns of a dilemma.
* A word my daughter invented as a toddlerina. It means—-well, it means…..gringly.
For fun I showed her how to make words out of it…..like gringlyiffic, gringlyicious, gringlyfication, gringlycian and whatnot.
Always playing with her word sense.
sturge, is that with a soft or hard “g”? one seems more foreboding than and not as perky sounding as the other.
that is, the second “g” not the first which I assumed to be soft…. but then again maybe not.
*
G as in grrr or Gershwin or gridlock or grinch or gripping grappling grody and Gretsch
so not gin as in “and tonic”
Nor as in General, gee, genetic, or gentile gentrification.
The Grim Green Gypsy Germans are coming.
In case anyone has a daughter in need of advice on marriage…
Poobah, you got a link to those Senate rules on impeachment (me being lazy and all)?
Actually, If they haven’t changed since ‘999, here they are:
They were submitted by Senators Byrd (Big Bad Bob) and Dole (ditto)
Marches in Scotland protesting the anti-immigration policies of Boris Johnson. Beginning of UK break up?
This is a little confusing because of the lack of distinction between the Presiding Officer of the Senate and the Presiding Officer on the trial, but I feel safe that the former in this sorry mess is McMertle and the latter is Roberts, C.J.
I don’t read this as anything that sounds like Roberts is just a ceremonial figure in the trial. That said, look for lots of votes on whatever rulings Roberts makes.
I definitely want to live life as a gringlycian
…maybe the most important election of our lifetime is Amy McGrath vs. Mitch McConnel.
…pretty sure my generation is going to take this country into the abyss, either way. Sorry. i suppose that will make us all Abyssinians.
Anyone remember how SFB wanted the United States Postal Service to place special rates on Amazon for using the USPS? Right now Amazon has the greatest presence at Baltimore Washington International Airport than all the other freight carriers combined. This is important as Amazon has already throttled down or stopped using the other package carriers for home delivery. SFB caused more damage to the US by acting like a spoiled baby in dirty diapers. Amazon is not using USPS like before, it is using its own carriers and delivery services. At least other retailers are using USPS.
Or Abyssimians?
It is a damned shame that Brits didn’t revolt against their rotten two party system and vote overwhelmingly for the Liberal Democrats in protest.
The last time the time the British electorate voted overwhelmingly for a nationalist platform, we did it here, a year later, so…
…hoping it was coincidence.
Pogo, seems like this language undercuts Chief Justice’s role: “the Presiding Officer on the trial may rule on all questions of evidence including, but not limited to, questions of relevancy, materiality, and redundancy of evidence and incidental questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Senate, unless some Member of the Senate shall ask that a formal vote be taken thereon, in which case it shall be submitted to the Senate for decision without debate”.
In other words the Senate can overrule any decision. Empowering the jury to overrule the judge is quite the chilling effect.
I like that method of keeping things moving. It strikes me that during the period that things are in limbo, a 25th Amendment appointment should be made.
I don’t like these impeachment counts. The terms cause the eyes of the citizenry to glaze over. The counts should be simple, and acts that everyone can understand and relate to on first hearing them.
1. Logan Act 2. racketeering 3. Failure to register as a foreign agent
As I remember it, the quotations have resembled my take on Robert’s role pretty closely.
The rippers will have to chose to honor the Chief Justice or the demander in chief. I figure that about 1 of 15 or so will side with Roberts. That still comes down to only 13, and America needs 20.
XR, I’d have to look Logan Act up.
Nothing requires Pelosi to send impeachment to an obviously rigged Senate. Just let it hang.
XR,
he was cheating, I think everybody can understand that.
He got caught, stupidly so, again everybody can understand that.
Just like in baseball if the pitcher is caught throwing a spitball he is warned, if he is stupid enough to do it a second time he is ejected from the game. With the Mueller report Trump got a warning, This is his second time, he gets ejected from the game. Time for the Republicans to start warming up a new pitcher.
Just put it in those terms and even simpleton trumpsters can understand.
But keep talking logan act, emollients, and other words I can’t spell and spell check can’t identify and lose the battle of explanations.
Jack
Craig I can’t imagine a worse disaster.
The Logan Act violation is whenever an unauthorized person undermines official US foreign policy. Candidate trump, his campaign, including manafort, flynn, gates, papadopoulos, junior, and jared did so. And now giuliani, parnas and fruman under Oval Office direction.
Ya, Mr Jack, he’s a cheater. Cheated the draft board, cheats at golf, cheats on his wives, cheats his employees, cheats his vendors, cheats students, cheats on taxes, cheats on campaign finance, cheats on national security.
If it yips like a weasel, waddles like a weasel, and stinks like a weasel, it must be a trump.
I don’t want emoluments.
I want 1. Logan, 2. Racketeering, and 3. Failure to register as a foreign agent. I’d prefer theft to Logan, but he’s weaseled out of the cases where he took money that wasn’t his. I could add, 4. Human trafficking and harboring and employing ‘illegal aliens’.
Lock him up. Lock them ALL up !
Everyone can understand those 4 items.
X-R, I agree with jack. everyone including kids understands “cheater” and I would add “bully” both of which are another way of saying “abuse of power”
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