DaveC
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at least we didn't get a "drumph"thrown in there.
in the sense that the prosecutors of a case that really seemed like it just had to be officially proven at the start allowed enough reasonable doubt to creep in that an obviously guilty defendant ends up not really facing justice.
Not a good situation at the US embassy in Iraq.
Potential for loss of life and much more
https://twitter.com/peterrneumann/status/1211990390913540097?s=21
Representative John Lewis has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, awful news.
Trump Promotes Argument That Senate Republicans Should Dismiss Articles of Impeachment
Jerry Lambe 4 hrs ago
President Donald Trump promoted an argument that the GOP-led Senate should move to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, thereby eliminating the need for a trial. Trump quoted the words of former Bush advisor Brad Blakeman on Tuesday afternoon.
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“It’s my opinion as a lawyer that the Articles of Impeachment are defective on their face, which means I would like to see a Motion to Dismiss and have this disbursed without the necessity of a trial. I don’t think there should be a trial. I think it should be dismissed on 51 votes, which is procedural. You don’t need two thirds,’” Trump tweeted, @-ing Fox News and thanking Blakeman, “a great lawyer & person.”
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“It’s my opinion as a lawyer that the Articles of Impeachment are defective on their face, which means I would like to see a Motion to Dismiss and have this disbursed without the necessity of a trial. I don’t think there should be a trial. I think it should be dismissed....
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...on 51 votes, which is procedural. You don’t need two thirds.” Brad Blakeman @FoxNews A great lawyer & person. Thank you Brad!
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It appears Trump was referring to Blakeman’s appearance on Fox News last week, during which he suggested that the Senate could realistically pursue dismissing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
“The Senate does have options. As a matter of fact they have many options. The first option would be that after the charges are read in the Senate against the President, his side can make a motion to dismiss which is a procedural vote that only requires a simple majority of 51 votes, and there is no need for a trial because the charges don’t hold up to the constitutional standards,” Blakeman said.
Asked directly what the Senate should do once the articles of impeachment are sent to the House, Blakeman said he believed they should immediately move forward with the option to dismiss the articles.
“Well I happen to believe as a lawyer that the charges are defective on their face – they don’t meet the constitutional standard of High crimes and Misdemeanors. So I would like to see a motion to dismiss,” he said. “I think the 51 senators we have as Republicans should agree with that and there should be no trial, it should be dismissed as a matter of course.”
As previously reported by Law&Crime, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she can’t pick impeachment managers until she receives assurances from the Senate that there will be a fair trial.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was quick to respond on Tuesday that “The American people deserve a fair trial.”
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First, Trump said he wanted a trial in the Senate.
Then, he said he wanted to hear from witnesses.
Now, he wants the case dismissed — without either.
The President is afraid of hearing from witnesses, but the Senate should not be.
The American people deserve a fair trial. https://twitt
Trump didn’t hijack the GOP and bend it to his will. He did something far easier: He looked at the party, saw its fault lines and then offered himself as a pure distillation of accumulated white grievance and anger. He bet that Republican voters didn’t really care about free trade or mutual security, or about the environment or Europe, much less deficits. He rebranded kindness and compassion as “PC” and elevated division and bigotry as the admirable goals of just being politically incorrect. Trump didn’t make Americans more racist; he just normalized the resentments that were simmering in many households. In short, he let a lot of long-suppressed demons out of the box.
If the world survives the year.openly assassinating the top generals of countries that america isn't even at war with is surely going to end well.
https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/1212916086057897987