By a near party line vote of 52-48 on Article I: Abuse of Power and a party line vote of 53-47 on Article II: Obstruction of Congress, President Trump was acquitted by the Senate and the faux impeachment jury and trial ended last week. Only one Republican, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with his party to judge Trump guilty of abuse of power. It was a week of big news … [Read more...]
Impeachment or Inquisition?
This afternoon the final vote on the Articles of Impeachment will be held. This mercifully will end over two weeks of rancorous debate that occupied wall-to-wall coverage on television. To summarize the ending of the trial, the general consensus is that Adam Schiff and his merry band of prosecutors brought a flawed and unfair case to the Senate. Their overriding theme was … [Read more...]
Embarrassing Impeachment
When this was written last week, the house managers on the impeachment trial were in the middle of their last day of presenting their case. The opening part began on Tuesday of last week and the amount of time to be used by Trump’s team was still unknown at the time of this writing. Many observers of the trial thought that Senate Minority Leader Schumer had pulled an … [Read more...]
Articles of Impeachment are Flimsy Political Ploys
This past week Donald Trump became only the third president to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. Neither of the other two were convicted by the Senate — Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999 — and neither will Trump, because Republicans hold a majority of Senate seats and there is no way to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority to remove Trump … [Read more...]
Impeachment Fatigue
Most TV viewers breathed a sigh of relief last Friday morning when the impeachment inquiry finally came to an end. At that time, on a party line vote, the House Judiciary Committee passed two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Prior to the vote, most Americans had to suffer through several months of having their regular cable news being devoted from dawn to … [Read more...]
Faux Impeachment
Today the House Judicial Committee, with Jerry Nadler as chair, will start their impeachment hearings. Because only the Judicial Committee can craft articles of impeachment, it is still unclear whether or not Adam Schiff and his committee are still in action. As Schiff himself may be called to testify, it is unsure whether or not it will be necessary to send him a subpoena. … [Read more...]