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2023-05-19 Home Front: Politix

Marjorie Taylor Greene announces impeachment articles against President Biden

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Hat tip to MTG. Unfortunately, a chronically ill 'Lady Justice' appears to have entered sequential organ failure.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-19 01:13|| 2023-05-19 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Wake me up when they start to build the scaffold...

Posted by Mercutio 2023-05-19 09:21|| 2023-05-19 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I think she has the votes. This has to be a nightmare scenario for the Schumer-McConnell symbionts.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-19 12:34|| 2023-05-19 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 someone please fill me in. What is the procedure for impeachment? House files charges with who? Can 'who' deny proceeding or set a trial date? Does the senate sit as the jury? Who is the judge? Can the judge overrule the jury's decision. If 'not guilty' can the defendant sue? sue who? Does the judge have any room in the sentence?
this wasn't in my 1945 civics class.
thank you
a web reference would be nice.

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-05-19 13:39|| 2023-05-19 13:39|| Front Page Top

#5 The wiki article is actually pretty good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

The short version is impeachment for a US president has to start in the house of representatives. They basically put together a legal case on why this president has committed a "High crime or misdemeanor" and the body debates then votes on it. The vote can carry with a simple majority, as did both Trump's impeachments.

The difficulty is now it goes to the Senate for trial. A 2/3 vote is necessary for the impeachment to take effect and this has never happened in American history. Nixon most likely would have been the first, but he resigned.

So even if the house passes this, it will die in the Senate as there is no way the demoncrats will vote as well to oust Biden.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-19 13:52|| 2023-05-19 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Could MTG stomach DeSantis' donor RINO class backers, and the GOPe candidates that they support?

For example, Jacksonville mayoral race: The candidate DeSantis backed was also the President of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. CoC supports H1B1 Visas (along with the Bush Dynasty and P.Ryan's camp) and the question would be if MTG would support those people and their policies like H1B1.

I think not.

Posted by mossomo 2023-05-19 14:00|| 2023-05-19 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 If the dems were, say 2 votes short of the needed 2/3 to impeach a pub prexident, you could bet a couple RINO squishes would "cross the aisle" to make it happen. If the pubs had, say 2/3+2 votes to impeach a dem prexident, you could bet a couple RINO squishes would "cross the aisle" to prevent it.

But never the reverse.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-19 14:40|| 2023-05-19 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 It's political theater with zero chance of conviction in the Senate. But is does turn a mirror to the Democrats' tactics against Trump. A warning shot for 2025 and beyond.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-19 15:13|| 2023-05-19 15:13|| Front Page Top

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