On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 11:32:18 AM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
On 2/5/2021 7:35 AM, Muggles wrote:
Trying a president who left office is Unconstitutional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3CR...ature=youtu.be
Not according to this Repub.
"One of Washingtons leading conservative constitutional lawyers
publicly broke on Sunday with the main Republican argument against
convicting former President Donald J. Trump in his impeachment trial,
asserting that an ex-president can indeed be tried for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
In an opinion piece posted on The Wall Street Journals website, the
lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, who is closely allied with top Republicans in
Congress, dismissed as illogical the claim that it is unconstitutional
to hold an impeachment trial for a former president. The piece came two
days before the Senate was set to start the proceeding, in which Mr.
Trump is charged with €śincitement of insurrection€ť in connection with
the deadly assault on the Capitol by his supporters on Jan. 6.
Since the rampage, Republicans have made little effort to excuse Mr.
Trumps conduct,
Actually most of them are excusing his conduct too. They say that he didn't
incite the mob, that it was free speech. There is some basis for that, because
many of those insurrectionists came prepared, with gear, for what they did.
I haven't read the actual impeachment
document, but I said at the time that it sounded like they were too focused on
what Trump said on the 6th, instead of laying out the case that they whole thing,
two months of lies, deception and incitement was a betrayal of his oath of office,
a dagger to the heart of our democracy.