Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Well who is more likely to impeach The Donald John? Establishment Republicans or the Dems? The Dems can't do it alone folks! Right?
The U.S. Constitution’s provision that federal officers are impeachable for “high crimes and misdemeanors” is notoriously unclear. That’s on purpose. The framers wanted a fairly open-ended tool for removing an officer who posed a serious and immediate threat to the constitutional order. The impeachment power needed to be flexible enough to deal with circumstances that could not be easily foreseen. Since impeachments are fundamentally political in nature, concerns that are critical in criminal law — for instance, ensuring that citizens know in advance what might be punishable, or preventing judges from arbitrarily imposing sanctions — don’t apply here. In the founders’ judgment, members of Congress would need the authority to assess, in context, whether an individual officer needed to be removed.
This doesn't mean that just anything should be regarded as an impeachable offense. The framers — and following them, members of Congress — have been very reluctant to use impeachment for ordinary political disagreements. Under democratic norms, even egregious policy disagreements or errors of judgment should be corrected through routine constitutional checks and balances if at all possible. So my point here being is, what impeachable offenses has President Trump committed? What someone would like to see is irrelevant because only Congress can impeach Trump and have they found grounds to impeach him? Do you have any reasons why you think President Trump should be impeached? Or would you love to see him impeached based solely on your hatred of him? Which seems to be the case for a lot of people.
The establishment would love to but they will not dare. They know they would be sent home quickly.
This post was edited by my2cents at November 3, 2017 5:13 AM MDT
