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45 of 50 Senate Republicans Oppose Trump Trial
The Hill is reporting that 45 of 50 Republicans in the US Senate voted in favor of a motion made by Sen. Rand Paul contending that the proposed impeachment trial of former President Trump is unconstitutional. Story here. All 50 Senate Democrats voted against the motion.
The five dissenting Republicans are:
- Mitt Romney (UT)
- Ben Sasse (NE)
- Susan Collins (ME)
- Lisa Murkowski (AK)
- Pat Toomey (PA)
This is a very strong indication that there are insufficient votes in the Senate to convict the former President.
Note that the vote on this issue does not indicate that the five Senators listed above will necessarily vote to convict, if the Senate leadership proceeds with the trial.
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For every politician voting should have nothing to do with political party. Inevitably, the exercise of political power is an expression of what one truly believes in, substantiated by principle. If a politician truly believes that what Pelosi and Schumer are selling is in fact constitutional, then he or she should vote with them and let their constituents either support or protest by their votes. The problem with that, as it so often is, is that most constituents probably do not understand the constitution.
And Barack Obama ‘threatened’ potential suitors of his daughters with Hellfire missiles from drones. Your argument is mendacious.
If they do, it’s a pretty good wager that the Chief Justice will refuse to preside because he’s only Constitutionally-required to preside over Presidential impeachment trials.
He had refused prior to the vote. That was the first whack with the clue bat.
It also didn’t dissuade our awful political class at all.
They are pretty impervious to whacks from clue bats.
We are in a habit of electing people who hold their elected positions to enhance their own lives. This is the result we get. Tulsi Gabbard is much admired for how she speaks up against her Party leaders on behalf of America..
Do you have any daughters?
Presiding over an impeachment trial is outside of Robert’s wheelhouse.
Listened and read. I get obstruction of justice pretty clearly–a high crime or misdemeanor.
Have you ever been on Fifth Avenue?
You want reasons Obama should be impeached?
Here are 10. (There are more.)
President Trump was a saint compared to that monster. But oh, he had nice pants creases, and didn’t you just get a thrill down your leg?
Are you bringing up that tan suit again?
Really though, does anyone remember that incident? I vaguely do, but like the Starbucks red Christmas cup, I think it was more of the Left combating a made-up Conservative complaint. We now have a President with serious concerns about foreign influence and nuts on Twitter are glad for the good ol’ days when the biggest scandal was wearing a tan suit. As you list, Obama had plenty of scandals, they just weren’t covered.
Touche!
I don’t get this comment. Mr. Justice Roberts presided over the impeachment trial last year.
Obama AND Nixon!
I believe that Toomey has already announced his retirement. I hope he likes the donation that GR just sent him. I don’t know who has announced running for his seat. PA people? I hope all the other four are primaried and replaced by real conservatives. This is McConnell’s fault for not putting a short leash on his caucus. They should all be voting in lockstep now, and making Harris break ties for every single piece of legislation proposed by the New Regime.
Wow, Hugh is really getting old. And he’s another of those like Mueller and Barr who had their peak in the 70s or 80s but are still trying to cling to relevance.
Yes, Constitutionally, the chief justice is to preside over impeachment.
I think I prefer the terminology “clue-by-four.” But yeah.
Gary didn’t really send any donation to Toomey, et al. Gary just says that kind of thing to see what kind of reaction he’ll get.
Chris Matthews definitely gets SOMETHING down his leg, and Biden likely does too.
Otherwise known as . . .
Get your donations in to Quid Pro Joe’s campaign in 2024, or VP Harris’ while you are at it.
I’ve EATEN a Fifth Avenue. Not bad. But I prefer a Payday or Butterfinger. These days I mostly get Take 5, those are great!
He didn’t? Are you saying Gary lied? And him a lawyer and all. (Then again – maybe par for the course for a lawyer.)
Pshaw. I want him to send money to these losers. It’s the best thing he can do to support the conservative cause. Pouring money down ratholes prevents it from going to where it might actually do some damage to conservatives.
I’m glad you got the sense of this post since Gary showed up.
Clinton also suborned perjury which is one of the most serious affronts to our legal system. Lying to the court is bad, getting someone else to lie to the court is even worse.
Nixon was going to be impeached and convicted, which is why he resigned. He would have been convicted because he, like Clinton, obstructed the legal system, destroyed evidence, and suborned perjury.
Lying to the court is bad? Well, that depends upon what the definition of the word “is”, is…
It was a terrible precedent because it essentially meant that as long as 1/3rd + 1 of the Senate was OK with their guy committing any crime it was going to be OK. GOP Senators supported Nixon until it was apparent that he really had destroyed evidence and obstructed their investigations.