{"id":93690,"date":"2019-12-24T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93690"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:54:29","slug":"could-the-senate-acquit-president-trump-without-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93690","title":{"rendered":"Could the Senate Acquit President Trump Without Trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Hunter Biden didn’t do anything wrong, how would an investigation into his father help President Trump’s reelection campaign? (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the Democrat impeachment witnesses argued, in an article, that unless the articles of impeachment are delivered to the Senate, President Trump is “not” impeached. The reality is that a reading of the articles of impeachment, and the vote taken to impeach, shows that the President is impeached.<\/p>\n

The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power to impeach. It gives the Senate the power to conduct the trials that result from impeachment. In reality, they could carry out their constitutional duty without the House appointing managers and without the House delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate.<\/p>\n

From Ren Jander on The Post & Email:<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that if the Senate acquits Trump immediately – without a trial – the Supreme Court has no authority, whatsoever, to review the Senate’s acquittal, and there isn’t a damn thing the House can do about it.<\/p>\n

Feldman is distracting the nation from understanding the full scope of Senate acquittal authority. He knows that if the House hasn’t impeached the President, the Senate could not immediately acquit him.<\/span><\/strong> This is why Feldman appears to be defending POTUS.<\/p>\n

Appearances are deceptive. Feldman’s true game is to provide cover for Pelosi’s power play in not delivering the articles of impeachment or choosing House impeachment managers, neither of which is necessary for the House to impeach. The Constitution doesn’t mention “articles of impeachment” or “impeachment managers.” And once the House impeaches, the Senate takes over. The House then has no power whatsoever to dictate terms of a trial. No trial is even required.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article talks about how a judge was essentially accused of a quid pro quo arrangement that resulted in a prosecutor’s halting an investigation. This was an investigation into the actions of a son of the businessman involved with the quid pro quo with the judge.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives voted on three articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. The Senate leveraged Senate Impeachment Rule XI. This allowed the presiding officer to appoint a committee to receive both evidence and testimony. They presented their findings to the full Senate. More than 2\/3rds of the Senate voted to convict and remove Nixon.<\/p>\n

Nixon took this case to court, arguing that the whole Senate had to be involved with gathering evidence and with hearing testimony. He asked for his impeachment conviction to be voided and for his salary and privileges to be restored.<\/p>\n

This case reached the U.S. Supreme Court. They concluded that the Supreme Court, by extension the court system, had no power to review the impeachment process. The Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments.<\/p>\n

Using this as precedence, the Senate could download the articles of impeachment and proceed from there. They could decide to take no witnesses and go straight to a vote of innocence or guilt. If they vote to acquit, that’s it. “Case dismissed”.<\/p>\n

Thanks to 11B-Mailclerk for the link. You could read the whole article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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