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Re: Impeachment
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:10 pm
by Blossom
Thad wrote:Upthorn wrote:Thad wrote:I don't think even this Supreme Court is going to let the "the president can't be investigated for anything, for any reason, while in office" argument ride.
I long for the days when I had your naïve optimism.
It's not optimism, it's just a different kind of cynicism.
Conservative Supreme Court justices are similar to conservative elected officials, but they're not quite the same thing. They aren't running for reelection; they're thinking past the next election and they're aware that, no matter how much they gut the Voting Rights Act and uphold gerrymandering, sooner or later there's probably going to be another Democratic president.
Stare decisis is really more of a guideline.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:38 pm
by Thad
Romney says he'll vote to convict.
In terms of actually convicting, it doesn't make a difference. In terms of optics, it at least undermines the talking point that this is a partisan witch hunt. It calls attention to the other Republicans' spinelessness, and that might matter in November.
Trump is reportedly furious, so there's that.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:50 pm
by Friday
Of course he's furious. It undermines his narrative that the GOP is the cool guys and the Democrats are the do-nothing commies. If one of his cool guys isn't with him then maybe it's not that every Democrat is a muslim terrorist but perhaps maybe he did something wrong.
I mean, he'll spin it by saying Romney isn't a real Republican. Because that's what the GOP always does when this happens.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:04 pm
by McDohl
Yeah, I predicted today on Twitter that we'll see I-UT next to his name before the year is out.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:18 pm
by zaratustra
Friday wrote:Of course he's furious. It undermines his narrative that the GOP is the cool guys and the Democrats are the do-nothing commies. If one of his cool guys isn't with him then maybe it's not that every Democrat is a muslim terrorist but perhaps maybe he did something wrong.
I mean, he'll spin it by saying Romney isn't a real Republican. Because that's what the GOP always does when this happens.
Trump went to town on McCain for much less than this.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:27 pm
by Mongrel
Votes over. Romney did in fact vote to convict, though only on article 1 and not article 2. Article 1 is more important though.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:37 pm
by Thad
McDohl wrote:Yeah, I predicted today on Twitter that we'll see I-UT next to his name before the year is out.
Maybe on a Fox chyron.
Trump will huff and puff, but Mitt's got the job for as long as he wants it; Iowa isn't going to drum him out of the party or the office over this. And Mitch knows he needs him; his majority is still too slim to push back too hard against any of the occasional defectors. And Mitch is a pragmatist; it's not like Romney's vote affected the outcome.
As for Romney quitting the party himself? I don't think that's likely either. I think he's a true believer in that "let's try and fix the Republican Party's reputation" stuff, and no amount of evidence is going to convince him that Trumpism *is* the Republican Party now.
...anyway, the vote's over. Trump has survived impeachment, as expected.
But the impeachment was just part of it. Nadler's already signaling that he intends to subpoena Bolton; the McGahn subpoena has made it to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals; there are the various other suits concerning his finances...we're going to keep getting new stories about Trump's corruption for the duration of his presidency (and beyond), and as bad as his congressional defenders look today, they're just going to look worse as more comes out.
I hope it's enough. All the Democrats need to flip are 54,000 votes in three states.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:12 am
by mharr
Hey, y'all remember when Bill was successfully impeached for, comparatively, fucking nothing?
Feels like that was centuries past.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:44 am
by Blossom
mharr wrote:Hey, y'all remember when Bill was successfully impeached for, comparatively, fucking nothing?
Feels like that was centuries past.
He was also successfully impeached but not convicted.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:03 pm
by Thad
Vindman, his brother, and Sondland have all been fired.
The House should impeach him again. First thing Monday morning.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:06 pm
by Metal Slime
Amazingly he responds to getting off the first impeachment by handing the House what they need for a second impeachment and this time they don't even need the motions of evidence or witnesses to make a case.
I hope the Dems turn this into a game of chicken that keeps pushing the Republicans back to the edge of the cliff.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:58 pm
by Thad
Trump whined on Twitter about the Roger Stone trial.
Barr intervened and had the DoJ reduce the recommended sentence.
So far three prosecutors have resigned in protest. (ETA: CNN is now saying all four have withdrawn themselves from the case, and two have resigned their positions in addition.)
ETA I meant to post this in the Oh Shit thread but I suppose it's at least impeachment-adjacent, in that we can expect this kind of shit to keep happening with no consequences.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:07 pm
by Thad
The DC Circuit has ruled that McGahn doesn't have to testify to Congress.
It's a bad ruling -- Ken White describes it as handwaving US v Nixon as "look, we did some crazy shit in the '70s" -- and we can expect an en banc appeal, followed by a Supreme Court appeal.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:42 pm
by Thad
You know how I keep saying that all the Trump Administration's stalling is just going to lead to all the stuff he's trying to hide coming out closer to the election? I think we'll be seeing a lot more news like this over the next eight months.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:03 pm
by Thad
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:18 pm
by Mongrel
"eight to 10"
ARRRRRGH
NO COOKIE
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:00 pm
by Thad
bump
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:56 pm
by Friday
wow Thad fucking necroing a thread?
that's MASSIVELY hypocritical of you considering you temp banned yyler one time
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:59 pm
by IGNORE ME
It feels really bad to say "impeaching Donald Trump is a waste of time" but really guys, you have so many bigger fish to fry.
Re: Impeachment
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:28 pm
by beatbandito
Look, if this administration is ever going to not get anything done, they have to start somewhere.