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‘Each new day is a new nightmare’: GOP ex-judge wants Trump ‘impeached and removed with all haste’

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  15 comments

‘Each new day is a new nightmare’: GOP ex-judge wants Trump ‘impeached and removed with all haste’

Mark Philip Painter (born April 6, 1947), served from 1995–2009 as a judge of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County ( Cincinnati ), after 13 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court . [1] In March 2009, Painter became the first and only American to be elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the United Nations Appeals Tribunal . [2]

A prolific writer, he is the author of six books including The Legal Writer: 40 Rules for the Art of Legal Writing , 130 articles, and more than 400 published court opinions. He writes a monthly column on legal writing for Lawyers USA. [3] An adjunct professor of law at his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati College of Law, since 1990. He was named the Chesley Distinguished Visiting professor there in 2008. [4] Painter also conducts seminars on legal writing for lawyers and others throughout the United States and internationally as far away as Kuala Lumpur .

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"Mark P. Painter, a lifelong Republican and career judge, this week called for the immediate impeachment of President Donald Trump.

In a column for Cincinnati.com , the former Ohio Court of Appeals judge offers to help his congressman, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), draft articles of impeachment.

“In any time except our post-factual era, no office holder, much less the president, could get away with any one of the dozens of dazzlingly illegal things Trump has already done,” Painter writes. “They would forfeit office immediately.”

“Each new day is a new nightmare. We are still trying to digest one breathtaking assault on America when another is signed, issued, or Tweeted. All this amid constant lies. Constant. Lies.”

Painter notes that he voted for Republican presidents for 36 years “[b]ut I have watched what once was a sane, center-right party go off the rails, first to the extreme right, then to wherever Trump is, which is in another universe.”

“It’s tough, but we must end this dangerous presidency,” he insists. “Trump must be impeached and removed with all haste. But only Congress can initiate the process.”


Our congressman, Steve Chabot, has been busy defending Trump from the media, which is simply reporting Trump’s machinations. It’s time for him to man-up and start drafting the articles of impeachment. As I remember, he did it for Clinton for far less than Trump has already done.

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Basic American values – free speech, the rule of law, separation of powers, even common decency – are unknown in this White House. We now have a president who has no concept of separation of powers, or why we have three branches of government. If he knew anything about the Constitution, he would know the framers envisioned just the situation we have now – a would-be dictator. They provided checks and balances – such as an independent judiciary to protect us from presidential tyranny.


“We must admit we have elected a president who has immediately proved himself to be a grifter, a pathological liar, a mean-spirited bully and dangerous to American values,” Painter concludes. “This not-ready-for-prime-time show is too dangerous to continue. America is at stake.”"

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/each-new-day-is-a-new-nightmare-gop-ex-judge-wants-trump-impeached-and-removed-with-all-haste/


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JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

Nothing else to add.

 
 
 
Larry Hampton
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link   Larry Hampton    7 years ago

Painter notes that he voted for Republican presidents for 36 years “[b]ut I have watched what once was a sane, center-right party go off the rails, first to the extreme right, then to wherever Trump is, which is in another universe.

The same goes for many of us.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy    7 years ago

He's a Democratic shill whose been Ted Strickland's "go to Republican" for years. It tells you all you need to know that you have to dress him as a republican to try and give his nonsense some validity. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy   7 years ago

Donald Trump is the most unqualified person to ever for president on a major party ticket, let alone win.

Every day he is in office is a gargantuan embarrassment to our nation.

The judge in the seed says he voted for republicans for 36 years until the party went too far right and then  eventually chose the insane Trump as it's candidate.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

He's 70 years old, given his history i'ts obvious he stopped voting Republican decades ago. He pointedly didn't say he'd voted Republican the last 36 years. Actually, from his own words it's clear he stopped voting Republican well before Trump. 

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   Hal A. Lujah  replied to  Sean Treacy   7 years ago

The article claims he's a "lifelong republican".  Are you calling this fake news?

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy  replied to  Hal A. Lujah   7 years ago

Try reading what he actually said:  "[b]ut I have watched what once was a sane, center-right party go off the rails, first to the extreme right, then to wherever Trump is"

Then is a big hint. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy   7 years ago

He was born in 1947, so the first presidential election he was eligible to vote in was 1968. He voted republican for president 9 times it says. If it began in 68 that would have meant 68,72,76,80,84,88,92,96, and 2000, assuming he voted every time. His first non Republican vote for president would have been 2004. That is not decades. He says he got fed up with the Republicans going farther to the right.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

"He says he got fed up with the Republicans going farther to the right."

Does that make him a left-wing Republican? If he's left-wing, and obviously did not want Trump to be POTUS, then I guess he's no different than the protesters in the streets, except that he's doing it with words rather than breaking windows and setting fire to cars.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Someone who voted for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is not a Republican. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy   7 years ago

Sure he could be. You don't think there are any Republicans who think the GOP has gone too far to the right?

 
 
 
Cerenkov
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link   Cerenkov  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Mitt Romney was too far right? Ridiculous. 

 
 
 
1ofmany
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link   1ofmany    7 years ago

Being stupid and dishonest aren't grounds for impeachment. If this judge has read the constitution, which of Trump's alleged illegal activities constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor? And what on earth would make him think that a republican congress would impeach a republican president just to please a bunch of loons that their base dismisses as snowflakes? 

 
 
 
Uncle Bruce
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link   Uncle Bruce    7 years ago

“In any time except our post-factual era, no office holder, much less the president, could get away with any one of the dozens of dazzlingly illegal things Trump has already done,

Uh, what illegal things?

 
 
 
Cerenkov
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link   Cerenkov  replied to  Uncle Bruce   7 years ago

I wouldn't expect a cogent response...

 
 

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