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And he wouldn't have convicted Daddy over Ukraine
HHusky
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/a-reply-to-the-federalist-on-impeachment-and-mob-rule/
What Davidson and Domenech appear to recommend is that we address such threats timidly, playing against the mob by Marquess of Queensbury rules. That means applying the narrowest possible sanction on the narrowest possible targets. If all we do as a nation is lock up some individual pelt-wearing yahoos and cringe in fear from holding a public man to account for a catastrophic abuse of leadership in public office — if we have one law against the common man, another for the elite — we will have failed to deliver that message. If you take this from an American national perspective rather than a narrowly partisan one, that ought to be obvious.
There is objective wrongdoing by Trump, without which the Capitol riot does not happen, and which created the conditions in which such a riot was not only possible, but likely.
Davidson makes three arguments. One, he argues that Trump did not explicitly call for violence, did not know beforehand of plans for violence, and sprinkled into his hour-long remarks a few scattered references to peaceful protest. This would be all you need to say, if impeachment were a strictly legal process requiring the elements of a statutory crime. But that is not what the Constitution requires, and not how the Founders understood its purpose. It extends as well to the political conduct of public men, as Hamilton reminded us. It aims at accountability for the abuse of office. Its British forbearer was, as Edmund Burke argued, intended for matters of public accountability “tried before Statesmen and by Statesmen, upon solid principles of State morality.” It is hard to think of any abuse of high office, short of treason itself, that would have alarmed the Founding Fathers more than inspiring a mob to target the democratic transfer of power.
Bolded to highlight the response to the stupid argument PT and Gasbag repeatedly make about what "high crimes" means.
What Davidson and Domenech appear to recommend is that we address such threats timidly, playing against the mob by Marquess of Queensbury rules. That means applying the narrowest possible sanction on the narrowest possible targets. If all we do as a nation is lock up some individual pelt-wearing yahoos and cringe in fear from holding a public man to account for a catastrophic abuse of leadership in public office — if we have one law against the common man, another for the elite — we will have failed to deliver that message. If you take this from an American national perspective rather than a narrowly partisan one, that ought to be obvious.
There is objective wrongdoing by Trump, without which the Capitol riot does not happen, and which created the conditions in which such a riot was not only possible, but likely.
Davidson makes three arguments. One, he argues that Trump did not explicitly call for violence, did not know beforehand of plans for violence, and sprinkled into his hour-long remarks a few scattered references to peaceful protest. This would be all you need to say, if impeachment were a strictly legal process requiring the elements of a statutory crime. But that is not what the Constitution requires, and not how the Founders understood its purpose. It extends as well to the political conduct of public men, as Hamilton reminded us. It aims at accountability for the abuse of office. Its British forbearer was, as Edmund Burke argued, intended for matters of public accountability “tried before Statesmen and by Statesmen, upon solid principles of State morality.” It is hard to think of any abuse of high office, short of treason itself, that would have alarmed the Founding Fathers more than inspiring a mob to target the democratic transfer of power.
Bolded to highlight the response to the stupid argument PT and Gasbag repeatedly make about what "high crimes" means.
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You voted for a lying piece of shit without a plan who has already killed 10s of thousands
Live with it.
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Sucker
Guess I'm misinformed on this.
It’s only a matter of time.