Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 of the Constitution states, “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.”
The Chief Justice is not presiding and Trump is no longer in office.
This sham impeachment and trial are unconstitutional.
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I neither know anything nor care about US constitutional law*, but I’m pretty sure that you are leaving out context and that your kettle logic backfires: this sound like it specifies that impeaching the current President requires the Chief Justice. Since Trump no longer is President, by implication, this requirement does not apply.
By the way, am I the only one who suspects that the Republicans are actually upset that they did not know that you can impeach Presidents even after leaving office, regretting that they did not thought of doing it to Obama?
* but then, unlike Representative Boebert here, I am neither American nor a member of national legislature.
@Bastethotep #77603
4 years ago, Goetz tweeted that it was Constitutionsl to impeach former Presidents. Now, of course, he thinks differently.
He's going to walk scott free again. Simple as that. Half his jurors are his co-conspirators, have an absolute disregard for the law, and/or are still in fear of his threats to their careers. It's fucking pathetic. That one shithead putting his feet up in a disgustingly appropriate echo of the rioter who did the same in Pelosi's office - the same shithead who personally egged on and saluted the mob - is a perfect visual metaphor. He doesn't have to care, he only gets punished if it's with his own consent and all the legal arguments in the world are utterly meaningless. They did exactly what they set out to do: the law has been reduced to a matter of opinion enforced at the whim of the privileged, American democracy is beyond repair, the American perception of reality itself is fundamentally compromised now redrawn as a political stance, and the rest of the world risks infection from this virulent insanity.
I love it when people destroy their own arguments. Key words there: “no longer in office”!!
Also, the Senate already voted that the trial is constitutional, so, sorry but that ship has already sailed!
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court decided he didn’t want to preside. The proper answer is not “let’s not have an impeachment.” The proper answer is “let’s remove the Chief Justice from the Supreme Court.” Simply put, this is part of his job, whether he likes it or not.
This was only for the current POTUS, apart if you still believes the election was stolen, in which case, there’s no use debatting someone as much delided as you.
The initial plan was for Kamala Harris, who is designated as President of the Senate by the Constitution, but the Democrats rightfully thought that would be a conflict of interest. So instead Senator Patrick Leahy, President Pro Tempore, is presiding. The Chief Justice only presides when a President is in office. Trump is no longer in office. Read a Wikipedia article.
But hey, at least they’re admitting Trump is not President anymore.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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