Rand puts a nail in the coffin on second impeachment attempt.

[phill4paul]

DEAD ON ARRIVAL: After Rand’s Speech, 45 Republican Senators Agree To End Sham Impeachment Before It Starts

No less than 45 Republican senators voted Tuesday that the Democrat Party’s bizarre impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is profoundly illegal and unconstitutional, following a rousing speech from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY. The largely symbolic vote indicates that Senate Democrats’ desperate attempt to impeach a President who has already left office will like fail in spectacular fashion if it reaches a vote on the Senate floor.

Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Neb.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Pat Toomey (Pa.) made up the coalition of five Republicans who voted that the impeachment trial was constitutional. Their desperate attempt to sway the results of the impeachment proceeding still leaves Senate Democrats 12 votes shy of the 55 they would need to succeed in a future trial.

“The Chief Justice’s absence demonstrate that this is not a trial of the president, but one of a private citizen,” Paul said in an address to the Senate floor Tuesday. “Therefore I make a point of order that this proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president, a vice president or civil officer violates the Constitution, and is not an order.”

Paul also described the impeachment as “nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to further divide the country.”

https://nationalfile.com/dead-on-ar...gree-to-end-sham-impeachment-before-it-starts

Expect bolded to be primaried by Trumps emerging GOP influence.

 

[Invisible Man]

What is the reason for thinking the trial is unconstitutional?

 

[acptulsa]

Not bad for a traitor prone to dereliction of duty, eh?

What is the reason for thinking the trial is unconstitutional?

Where in the Constitution is there a provision for impeaching private citizens, again?

Quotes, please.

 

[phill4paul]

What is the reason for thinking the trial is unconstitutional?

Fucking read the article. Or research others. Or just fuck off with your bullshit.

 

[CaptUSA]

I wonder what they got on Toomey. It seems like ancient history now, but he was once the antithesis of Arlen Specter. Something scared him at some point. And he’s retiring so he’s vacating his seat, which is good.

 

[acptulsa]

$#@!ing read the article. Or research others. Or just $#@! off with your bull$#@!.

Didn't exactly win any awards for intelligent question of the year, did it?

So, we're the Senate. What are we expected to vote on, here? Whether to remove him from office?

Too late.

 

[danda]

video?

 

[Invisible Man]

Not bad for a traitor prone to dereliction of duty, eh?



Where in the Constitution is there a provision for impeaching private citizens, again?

Quotes, please.

He would be impeached for what he did as President, not a private citizen.

 

[Invisible Man]

Fucking read the article. Or research others. Or just fuck off with your bullshit.

I did. I didn't see my question answered in it.

I thought maybe somebody here would know, so I asked the forum.

If you don't know that's fine. Others might.

 

[Invisible Man]

I wonder what they got on Toomey. It seems like ancient history now, but he was once the antithesis of Arlen Specter.

He was never really the antithesis to Specter. That was just the way he framed it. It worked well for him since Specter happened to be the guy whose seat he wanted. And the zeitgeist of the Tea Party movement made it an opportune time for Toomey to play that role.

 

[acptulsa]

He would be impeached for what he did as President, not a private citizen.

Well, the bad news for every sane person in the country is it didn't take a supermajority to table Rand Paul's motion to dismiss, so you'll get your trial.

But it does take a supermajority to remove, so even if they could, they clearly won't.

I hope it keeps them out of our hair all the rest of the session.

That said, you didn't answer my question either. Turn up your hearing aid, get out your specs, whatever it takes. Where in the Constitution does it say the Senate can conduct an impeachment trial of a private citizen and remove him from office?

 

[Ender]

Not bad for a traitor prone to dereliction of duty, eh?



Where in the Constitution is there a provision for impeaching private citizens, again?

Quotes, please.

LOL- beat me to it!

 

[phill4paul]

I did. I didn't see my question answered in it.

I thought maybe somebody here would know, so I asked the forum.

If you don't know that's fine. Others might.

From the quotes in my OP

“The Chief Justice’s absence demonstrate that this is not a trial of the president, but one of a private citizen,” Paul said in an address to the Senate floor Tuesday. “Therefore I make a point of order that this proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president, a vice president or civil officer violates the Constitution, and is not an order.”

 

[TheTexan]

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Ha ha ha! Rand first says Biden hates black teens, and now this. I'd say he's getting more assertive than 2016, and getting reading for a different 2024 run.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Clearly, Rand Paul is seditious scum and a tool of the Democrats.

 

[TheTexan]

Ha ha ha! Rand first says Biden hates black teens, and now this. I'd say he's getting more assertive than 2016, and getting reading for a different 2024 run.

I'm not sure what BlazeTV comments usually look like, but the comments from that video are indeed very positive.

 

[acptulsa]

Ha ha ha! Rand first says Biden hates black teens, and now this. I'd say he's getting more assertive than 2016, and getting reading for a different 2024 run.

I'd say his thirteen hour filibuster of 2013 was pretty assertive. But I don't see this as self-serving. I see this as one of the two or three of the hundred senators who actually does his job.

 

[TheTexan]

Rand Paul for President CSA 2024

 

[Anti Globalist]

Now we know which Senators need to be primaried during the midterm elections.