#Impeachable

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

So I guess we've just decided to let supposed originalists weigh in on the constitutionality of an out-of-office impeachment without paying any attention at all to what the term "impeachment"

Naunihal Singh

naunihalpublic

THREAD: Is it a coup yet?Today a journalist asked me, is what Trump is doing a coup? If not, how can we best describe it? What words should we use?I

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AMJ_View

1/ I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me the following key arguments must be presented by Trump's legal defense team: 2/ Per the US Constitution, impeachment deals with

Susan Hennessey

Susan_Hennessey

A key feature of the Trump era has been the Republican effort to collapse any distinction between what is illegal for a president to do and what is immoral, unpatriotic,

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

At the heart of this 2nd Trump trial lurks is an ugly and disturbing question about the health of American democracy: if a President spreading a lie about election fraud

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

Republican Senators who vote to acquit Donald Trump will have enshrined the “January exception” that @RepRaskin and @JoeNeguse have so eloquently described: meaning the next Donald Trump or Trump himself

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

The sprawling investigation currently threatening Trump's presidency is the investigation of Giuliani. The odds that the Berman firing has to do with Giuliani, not Turkey, are high, with a caveat:

Morgan Shelley

Morgan_Shelley

To all the confused HR managers & employment law students: Yes, you are right. If an employee is largely exonerated by an internal review (say a finding they broke the

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

One thing I have been thinking about since yesterday: Trump committed SO MANY impeachable offenses while in office, and he was only brought to account for three of them. Just

Timothy Sandefur

TimothySandefur

This is completely and dangerously wrong. Gross incompetence (to name jus tone example) is an impeachable offense notwithstanding the fact that it’s legal.https://twitter.com/joshmblackman/status/1347467547709493248 Impeachment is not a c

Gregg Nunziata

greggnunziata

Just FYI, the Senate needs a two-thirds vote to convict on impeachment, but disqualification from ever again holding office is a straight-up majority vote. I apparently need to clarify this.

Anne Pate

trekkie10

Death Knell For ImpeachmentIf 45 out of 50 Republicans agreed with Paul that it’s unconstitutional, there’s no way 17 of 50 Republicans will vote to impeach, which is required for

Josh Clark

josh_um_clark

Allowing Donald Trump to serve out the rest of his term is a gesture of respect for him. Demonstrates how thoroughly he’s hijacked and warped America’s norms. Trump’s presidency is

Ralph Nader

RalphNader

The Executive Order providing $400 in unemployment insurance payments from monies not appropriated for that purpose usurped the congressional power of the purpose and constituted a criminal violation of the

Gabriel Malor

gabrielmalor

Ya'll are gonna make me be That Guy again today, aren't you. Criminal incitement requires more than merely standing by and letting idiot followers commit crimes. It requires, among other

Julian Sanchez

normative

This is an utterly bizarre thing to write.https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/what-happened-to-officer-sicknick/ It’s bizarre, to be clear, because even if it turned out that Sicknick just coincidentally dropped dead for reasons totall

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