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| There's This Thing Called Due Process That We Ought to Try |
| 2019-11-14 |
| [Townhall] I get a little picky about this whole due process thing, not just because I’m a lawyer and not just because I helped defend our Constitution overseas in uniform a couple times, but because I’m an American citizen. Let’s understand clearly the nature of the due process argument over impeachment. This is not about Donald Trump getting due process. This is about the American people getting due process. It’s our choice for president that is being challenged. You get due process under our glorious Constitution when you are about to have your individual rights infringed ‐ like having your freedom or money taken. President Trump has no individual right to be president. It’s a position that we citizens gave him in order to work for us. The presidency is not his, any more than being a colonel meant the eagle belonged to me. The real due process rights at issue here belong to us, America’s citizens, who are faced with the prospect of having our right to choose our president infringed upon. In other words, when no one is allowed to put on a defense to the impeachment inquisition, it’s not Trump who is being deprived of his due process rights. It’s the American people who are being deprived of their due process rights. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 The real due process rights at issue here belong to us, America’s citizens, who are faced with the prospect of having our right to choose our president infringed upon. This. Schlichter is often full of (highly entertaining, admittedly) sound and fury but this time he goes stone cold sober and gets right to the heart of the matter. This is an attempt to nullify an election. It's the kind of shite that happens all the time across the Chaos Nations of the third world. It has never happened to an American president, no matter how bitter or nasty the politics, in our history. Even in the most bitter struggles of D and R over the last half century, neither party crossed this Rubicon. Clinton and Nixon were both 2nd term presidents; Nixon had list the support of ~75% of his own party. These f-----s are ripping up our history and our institutions. Because Orangeman Bad. F--- these morons. This coup must not be allowed to stand. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-14 17:51 |
| #4 Just not enough bullets. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-11-14 16:54 |
| #3 Thanks TW, I really enjoyed it. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-11-14 11:53 |
| #2 It’s Kurt Schlichter from Townhall, 49 Pan. He is popular around here. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-14 10:38 |
| #1 We are all, mostly all, angry about what is going on. Some are close to picking up arms over this. Not sure who the author is, G(r)om???, but he sure states the core of our angers very well. Our right to choose the president is being infringed on, and he is not able to carry out the duties we elected him to do are being disrupted as well. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-11-14 10:34 |