“Given the essentially anti-democratic nature of impeachment and the great dangers inherent in the too-ready exercise of that power, impeachment has no place in our system of constitutional democracy except as an extreme measure – reserved for breaches of the public trust by a president who so violates his official duties, misuses his official powers or places our system of government at such risk that our constitutional government is put in immediate danger by his continuing to serve out the term to which the people of the United States elected him"
"“It is clear from the debates and from the commentaries on the Constitutional Convention that the Framers were concerned that anything less than bipartisanship could, and would, do great damage to our form of government. They knew that to contemplate an action as profound as undoing a popular election requires at a minimum that members of both parties find that the alleged wrong is grave enough to overturn the will of the majority of the American people."
“The Constitution provides that ‘the Senate shall have sole power to try all impeachments.’ Some consider this provision to impose a duty upon the Senate to try or adjudicate all impeachments. Even if the Constitution imposes such a duty, the Senate has not understood this duty to adjudicate as necessarily requiring a formal trial. There is precedent for the Senate considering dispositive motions that would allow the Senate to render a judgment without holding a trial.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/04/impeachment-comments-democrats-would-rather-you-forget/
I would take Biden's suggestion and tell the House to send impeachment up. Have a couple of days of hearings and have a quick vote and deny the impeachment motion. Essentially, give the Dems the finger. The Dems, being intrinsically dishonest and corrupt, are simply using impeachment as a campaign political tool.
"“It is clear from the debates and from the commentaries on the Constitutional Convention that the Framers were concerned that anything less than bipartisanship could, and would, do great damage to our form of government. They knew that to contemplate an action as profound as undoing a popular election requires at a minimum that members of both parties find that the alleged wrong is grave enough to overturn the will of the majority of the American people."
“The Constitution provides that ‘the Senate shall have sole power to try all impeachments.’ Some consider this provision to impose a duty upon the Senate to try or adjudicate all impeachments. Even if the Constitution imposes such a duty, the Senate has not understood this duty to adjudicate as necessarily requiring a formal trial. There is precedent for the Senate considering dispositive motions that would allow the Senate to render a judgment without holding a trial.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/04/impeachment-comments-democrats-would-rather-you-forget/
I would take Biden's suggestion and tell the House to send impeachment up. Have a couple of days of hearings and have a quick vote and deny the impeachment motion. Essentially, give the Dems the finger. The Dems, being intrinsically dishonest and corrupt, are simply using impeachment as a campaign political tool.
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