By David Kamioner | December 20, 2019
Has President Donald Trump been impeached?
He has not, according to a star Democrat witness who testified in front of the Dem-controlled House Judiciary Committee’s recent hearings on impeachment.
Related: Dems Are Now Stalling on Impeachment
That committee voted to impeach the president on two counts.
Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School (shown at the top of this article), wrote in a Bloomberg opinion piece on Thursday, “Impeachment as contemplated by the Constitution does not consist merely of the vote by the House, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial. Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a trial.”
He added, “If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.”
Well, now.
Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not transmitted those articles yet, and she claims she will not until she gets what she wants from the Senate, the president — as Feldman sees it — could stay un-impeached for quite some time to come.
Related: As Pelosi Hesitates, Canny McConnell Is Lying in Wait
Since Feldman was one of the witnesses for the Democrats and a Democrat partisan as well, you’d think the congressional leadership on the Left would have consulted him on this topic.
But it seems their fervor to employ the hurry-up-and-impeach offense was so overwhelming they forgot to consult one of the very individuals who wrote their playbook.
Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are very possibly not pleased with the Harvard academic, who could not stay on script.
Feldman will get a better reception from the GOP and the White House, but that is perhaps not on the top of his holiday wish list.
Democrat impeachment witness Noah Feldman: “If the House doesnt communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles aren't transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.”https://t.co/cpWiMzXj6q
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) December 20, 2019
“Republicans in Congress are already making this argument,” CBS reported. “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a speech on the Senate floor [on] Thursday that Pelosi’s decision to withhold the articles from the Senate shows Democrats ‘may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate.’ House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) echoed those comments: ‘She’s admitting defeat by not sending them. By refusing to send impeachment over, she knows its outcome is not good.'”
Whatever eventually transpires, it is already clear the impeachment push is a bad idea and is getting worse for the Dems.
It’s cost them a member of Congress — Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who just left the Democrat Party to join the GOP — as well as other elected officials at lower levels of government; polls are going south; and Senate members are caught between their own political futures and party discipline that demands they vote to convict the president on obstruction of justice and abuse of power charges.
This latest development only adds an ironic and even comical twist to the deteriorating Democrat situation.
But they’ve already risked too much to get out of it. As such, they ignore a longstanding political maxim: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
This piece originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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The best thing that could happen is to take the immunity from congress as they have to take responsibility to the people and the country for their actions and speech.
The dems war cry all through their short time in control of congress is ” Nobody is above the Law” so give them what they want. Take away their immunity.
The best thing that could happen is to take the immunity from congress as they have to take responsibility to the people and the country for their actions and speech.
The dems war cry all through their short time in control of congress is ” Nobody is above the Law” so give them what they want. Take away their immunity.
The Looney left are incapable of knowing when they are beaten. They will keep floundering around in their own little world where everyone is the smart one and no one can deny that.
Why don’t the Republicans take a leaf out of the Democrats play book and tell them that they’ll do what they want and then don’t ( you know …………..LIE like the Democrats do)
Why don’t the Republicans take a leaf out of the Democrats play book and tell them that they’ll do what they want and then don’t ( you know …………..LIE like the Democrats do)
What a joke the Dem’s are, so much of their time wasted, so much tax payer money wasted to get this impeachment voted on and then, do nothing with it. how silly they all look in the eyes of America.
What a joke the Dem’s are, so much of their time wasted, so much tax payer money wasted to get this impeachment voted on and then, do nothing with it. how silly they all look in the eyes of America.
I beg to differ. I don’t think Nancy is a communist at all. I believe she’s a fascist. She wants to control everything. She wants all the power. THAT, by definition, is fascism.
…they cannot go any further, if the senate receives the articles of impeachment then Trump is impeached and his term is considered null and void; when the senate holds a trial and Trump is acquitted of all wrong doing, he is eligible to run for two more terms; that would send the democrats into total mental collapse…
…they cannot go any further, if the senate receives the articles of impeachment then Trump is impeached and his term is considered null and void; when the senate holds a trial and Trump is acquitted of all wrong doing, he is eligible to run for two more terms; that would send the democrats into total mental collapse…
As usual the press – and in this particular case – the Political Insider doesn’t get it straight
The articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump are 1) Abuse of Power and 2) Obstruction of CONGRESS – NOT Obstruction of Justice Unless that is both the House of representatives AND the MSM believe that the House IS the arm of Government that dispenses Justice and not the Judiciary!
Based upon her lifelong behavior and the marriage relationship with her husband, she projects the symptoms of the antisocial personality disorder, nicknamed “Sociopath.” This is a neurosis. She is just wired that way. Communism is atheistic socialism. More likely, she prefers fascist socialism. IMHO, she was primed to do the kill shot against our Constitution.
Based upon her lifelong behavior and the marriage relationship with her husband, she projects the symptoms of the antisocial personality disorder, nicknamed “Sociopath.” This is a neurosis. She is just wired that way. Communism is atheistic socialism. More likely, she prefers fascist socialism. IMHO, she was primed to do the kill shot against our Constitution.
We the people cordially invite Nancy Pelosi to report on the State of the State of California. With pictures and video please. Then maybe the California Dems would finally see that taking care of their State first is more important than obstructing, investigating and impeaching a most effective manager at the helm.
We the people cordially invite Nancy Pelosi to report on the State of the State of California. With pictures and video please. Then maybe the California Dems would finally see that taking care of their State first is more important than obstructing, investigating and impeaching a most effective manager at the helm.
The longer this WITCH waits the closer she becomes to the senate once they receive the paper work to VOTE FOR A FULL EQUITAL….TRUMP WINS AGAIN…..11 o’clock news update HOUSE SPEAKER JUMPS OF THE ROOF OF THE White House….All that is left is a BUTT AND A HEAD…….PERIOD……
The longer this WITCH waits the closer she becomes to the senate once they receive the paper work to VOTE FOR A FULL EQUITAL….TRUMP WINS AGAIN…..11 o’clock news update HOUSE SPEAKER JUMPS OF THE ROOF OF THE White House….All that is left is a BUTT AND A HEAD…….PERIOD……
Nancy is a communist. All she is interested in is her Obama, commie party and her ugly grandchildren.
I think dear Nancy and a lot of the democrats would like a do over.
President Trump will win in 2020. Nancy is a very evil woman. She will get what is coming to her.