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Impeach Or Not?

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By Michael Master  

Why is Pelosi in such a hurry to impeach Trump?  Why is Schiff trying to keep the whistleblower’s identity a secret?  Why is Schiff violating the Constitution on due process and not allowing Republicans/Trump to cross examine the whistleblower?  Where is the hard evidence that Trump pressed the Ukraine with quid pro quo to get them to provide information to affect the 2020 election?  Why are Democrats ignoring the multiple statements from the president of the Ukraine about this subject that are in direct conflict with the whistleblower?

Last weekend, Adam Schiff stated that the whistleblower is no longer needed as a witness…. that Schiff will probably not call the whistleblower to testify or use the whistleblower document.    That his committee had what it needed in the phone call transcript to issue subpoenas to other people for more information.   Hey Adam, how did you get that transcript?  By your collusion with the Whistleblower in the first place.  So of course Schiff doesn’t want the whistleblower to be cross examined.  

Adam understands that he cannot use testimony that the defendant cannot cross examine. He does not want Republicans to cross examine the whistleblower for collusion with Democrats or help by the Democrat lawyer in drafting the document.   The whistleblower accusation is falling apart.  

Senate will never remove Trump.  even Joe Manchin will vote no in a Senate trial because he understands how his constituency in WV loves Trump.   so will all those other Dem senators in Trump states vote no.  Senators represent their states, not the national population.    

check out how many states voted for Trump vs Clinton.   30 for Trump and only 20 for Clinton.   

none of those Dem senators in Trump states will vote to remove Trump.   There are only 8 Senators from Cal and NY and Mass and Maryland.   Schiff and Pelosi will be lucky to get 40 Senators to vote yes for removal.  never 67.   and Pelosi knows it.  

now that Schiff will not have the whistleblower testify so he/she cannot be cross examined by Trump lawyers like Trey Goudy or Republicans like Nunes,  there will be no reason for Dem Senators in Trump states to vote yes for removal.  Schiff just gave them the excuse of violating due process to vote no.   

the only real evidence are what the president of the Ukraine states and what is actually in the phone call transcript… and neither of them provide any evidence to support the accusation that Trump pressured the Ukraine president to get dirt on Biden for the 2020 election vs Trump getting information for criminal investigations of Biden and Clinton in his job as president.    

watch closely as this all disappears now that Schiff is not using testimony from the whistleblower.  due process:  the defendant has the right to cross examine any accuser… and Schiff fears that… so Schiff cancelled testimony from the whistleblower. 

Schiff does not want this to be revealed in any cross examination of the whistleblower:  

Bombshell: Adam Schiff’s Staff Was In It With The CIA “Whistleblower” Deeper Than We Thought!


McCarthy: Ignore The Hype – This Is Not An Impeachment Inquiry

Authored by Andrew McCarthy, op-ed via The Hill, ZeroHedge

There is no impeachment inquiry. There are no subpoenas.

You are not to be faulted if you think a formal inquest is under way and that legal process has been issued. The misimpression is completely understandable if you have been taking in media coverage — in particular, reporting on a haughty Sept. 27 letter from House Democrats, presuming to direct Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on pain of citation for obstruction, to cooperate in their demands to depose State Department officials and review various records. 

The letter is signed by not one but three committee chairmen. Remember your elementary math, though: Zero is still zero even when multiplied by three.

What is portrayed as an “impeachment inquiry” is actually just a made-for-cable-TV political soap opera. The House of Representatives is not conducting a formal impeachment inquiry. To the contrary, congressional Democrats are conducting the 2020 political campaign. 

The House has not voted as a body to authorize an impeachment inquiry. What we have are partisan theatrics, proceeding under the ipse dixit of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It raises the profile, but not the legitimacy, of the same “impeachment inquiry” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) previously tried to abracadabra into being without a committee vote.

Moreover, there are no subpoenas. As Secretary Pompeo observed in his fittingly tart response on Tuesday, what the committee chairmen issued was merely a letter. Its huffing and puffing notwithstanding, the letter is nothing more than an informal request for voluntary cooperation. Legally, it has no compulsive power. If anything, it is rife with legal deficiencies.

The Democrats, of course, hope you don’t notice that the House is not conducting a formal impeachment inquiry. They are using the guise of frenetic activity by several standing committees — Intelligence, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Reform, Financial Services, and Ways and Means — whose normal oversight functions are being gussied up to look like serious impeachment business.

But standing committees do have subpoena power, so why not use it? Well, because subpoenas get litigated in court when the people or agencies on the receiving end object. Democrats want to have an impeachment show — um, inquiry — on television; they do not want to defend its bona fides in court.

They certainly do not want to defend their letter. The Democrats’ media scribes note the chairmen’s admonition that any failure by Pompeo to comply “shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry.” What a crock. 

In criminal proceedings, prosecutors demand information all the time and witnesses often resist — just as congressional Democrats encouraged the Justice Department and FBI to resist when Republican-controlled committees were trying to investigate such matters as Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse. Presumptively, resisting an information request is not evidence of obstruction. It is evidence that the recipient of the demand believes he or she has a legal privilege that excuses compliance. The recipient can be wrong about that without being guilty of obstruction. 

Congressional Democrats know this, of course — many of them are lawyers. They are issuing partisan letters that pose legally offensive threats, rather than subpoenas, because this is a show, not an impeachment inquiry. Subpoenas don’t require chest-beating about obstruction. Everyone knows they are compulsory, but everyone also knows they may be challenged in court. Such challenges take time, though, and Democrats are in a hurry to close this show after a short run.

To be sure, the Constitution vests the House alone with the power of impeachment (as opposed to impeachment trials, which are the sole responsibility of the Senate). The judiciary has no authority to tell the House how to conduct impeachment proceedings. And the House is a “majority rules” institution, so if Speaker Pelosi and her partisans want to ipse dixit their way to impeachment articles, no one can stop them.

That said, the courts maintain their authority to protect the legal rights of persons and institutions ensnared in kangaroo tribunals. The fact that House Democrats invite you to their circus does not require you to beclown yourself.

Any competent court asked to evaluate a demand for information under the rubric of impeachment will observe that the process has a history. When the Framers debated whether to include an impeachment clause in the Constitution, they had serious concerns. They were designing a separation-of-powers system that endowed the coordinate branches with checks and balances to police each other. They understood that impeachment authority was necessary, but feared it would give the legislature too much power over the executive. 

They also worried that impeachment could be politicized. If it were too easy to do procedurally, or it could be resorted to for trifling acts of maladministration, factions opposed to the president would be tempted to try to overturn elections and grind the government to a halt.

To address these concerns, the Framers adopted a burdensome standard — high crimes and misdemeanors (in addition to treason and bribery) — that would restrict impeachable offenses to truly egregious abuses of power. Then they erected an even higher bar: a two-thirds supermajority requirement for conviction in the Senate. 

All this was to ensure that the electoral will of the people must never be overturned in the absence of misconduct so severe that it results in a broad consensus that the nation’s well-being requires removing the president from power. 

Although the House has the raw power to file articles of impeachment based on frivolous allegations and minor abuses, the Senate supermajority requirement for removal is designed to have a sobering effect on the lower chamber. Impeachment should not be sought out of partisanship. There must be misconduct that would convince objective Americans, regardless of their politics, that the president must be ousted — not merely criticized or censured, but stripped of authority.


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In defending against any congressional demand for information, the president has various privileges against disclosure. Executive components such as the State Department are also repositories of highly sensitive information involving national security and foreign relations — conduct of the latter being a nearly plenary executive authority. The judiciary is generally deferential toward the executive’s claims of privilege. But Congress is given wider latitude to probe in a real impeachment inquiry. When the House, as an institution, endorses such an inquiry in a formal vote, the courts must presume the inquiry is based on a reasonable suspicion of grievous misconduct.

By contrast, any reasonable judge asked to weigh the demands for information presented to Pompeo would not give them the time of day. They do not reflect the judgment of the House. They are reflective, instead, of partisan House leadership that realizes it does not have impeachable offenses — so much so that Pelosi & Co. fear the wrath of voters if Democrats in districts friendly to President Trump are put to the test of voting to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry. 

Every presidential impeachment inquiry, from Andrew Johnson through Bill Clinton, has been the subject of bipartisan consultation and debate. The House has recognized that its legitimacy, and the legitimacy of its most solemn actions, must be based on the consideration of the whole body, not the diktat of a few partisan bosses.

Not this one. This one is a misadventure in exactly the bare-knuckles partisanship the Framers feared. To be sure, no one has the power to prevent willful House leadership from misbehaving this way. But we’re not required to pretend the charade is real. 

Democrats are mulishly determined to ram through an article of impeachment or two, regardless of whether the State Department and other agencies cooperate in the farce. Their base wants the scarlet-letter “I” attached to Trump. The party hopes to rally the troops for the 2020 campaign against Trump (although smarter Democrats know it could boomerang on them). 

If Democrats truly thought they had a case, they wouldn’t be in such a rush — they’d want everyone to have time to study it. But they don’t have a case, so instead they’re giving us a show.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mccarthy-ignore-hype-not-impeachment-inquiry



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