Democrats Drop Bribery and Other Crimes In Favor Of A Two-Article Impeachment
By: Jonathan Turley
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The Democratic leadership announced today that it has decided that President Donald Trump will be accused of just two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. I commend the Committee in dropping the previous claims of bribery, extortion, campaign finance and obstruction of justice. While my fellow witnesses made good-faith arguments for those articles, my testimony primarily focused on the legal and constitutional flaws in claiming those criminal acts. I also commend the Committee in not following the suggested course of many in ignoring the legal definitions of those crimes to claim an impeachable offense. Finally, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is correct as he stated yesterday that I repeatedly stated that President Donald Trump could be impeached for a non-criminal act like abuse of power if it could be proven. I also said that he could be impeached for obstruction of Congress, if proven. However, this record falls considerably short of the record needed to support such claims for a submission to the Senate.
I do not believe that Chairman Nadler is the one pushing for this rocket docket of impeachment. The problem with these two claims is not their constitutional basis but their evidentiary record. This is the thinnest record created in the shortest time of any modern presidential impeachment. Rather than wait and build a viable case, the Democrats are moving to submit an incomplete and undeveloped record to the Senate. The committees have burned three months where they could have secured judicial review and at least one decision on the missing witnesses. It took two months between the ruling of Judge Sirica in the Nixon case and the final ruling of the Supreme Court that led to Nixon’s resignation.
Nevertheless, while I believe this impeachment is premature and half-formed, I am relieved that the House Judiciary Committee did not toss out the legal definitions of crimes for acts like bribery, extortion, campaign finance, and other crimes declared established by some experts.
There is a reason by President Donald Trump encouraged Democrats to stick to its “impeach by Christmas” pledge. This is the case that Trump would want: one-sided and undeveloped. It is a case that will not withstand Senate scrutiny.
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They did it in rapid time!
In the Democrat's world Trump was guilty as soon as he won the election. To them this is the culmination of 3 plus years of work.
Yup, that's exactly what it is. Did you hear what unhinged radical democrat congressman Al Green said?
"Texas Rep. Al Green declared Thursday that House Democrats can just impeach the President again and again, leaving the connotation that this impeachment has already failed. Green introduced his first articles of impeachment in November 2017 and did so again a number of times after that. “A president can be impeached more than once."
And believe it or not he represents a Texas district. Even in the great state of Texas we have thugs voting!
I watched that …."Press time" of theirs …. to announce "Their Articles of impeachment" (Which apparently STILL needs some more tweaking for another week) .
Nancy was praying and trying to keep her teeth in her mouth (WTF was on her nose anyway).
Apparently...Nadler took a few doses of Viagra, as Maxine had an orgasm right there on the stage.
And Schifty Schiff, at least kept his eyeballs in place this time, as he did his "Parody" act again.
They dropped their Scathing " News Worthy " bribery, extortion, "Quid-Pro-Quo", campaign finance and obstruction of justice crap, and down sized it to a boring "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress".
"Obstruction of Congress" and "Abuse of Power".
Hmmmmmm …… think about that.
Is "Obstruction of Congress" and "Abuse of Power", a meld of the two as one...but listed separately for effect ?
House democrats have now completed the fastest investigation with the thinnest record supporting the narrowest impeachment in modern history.
After all the yelling, shouting and outrageous claims...it's not going to end with a bang, but with the weakest of whimpers.
It was on actual "Non-Existent" Support !
I'm wondering when Democrats in congress are going to put forth a Bill that claims …. "Feelings" are now the "Law" !
Call it .... HR666-my-feelings-are-butt-hurt !
Well, this ain't gonna fly.
I think they should have thrown the book at Trump for every abuse of power he has done from Day One. Have 30 articles of impeachment. But the ones in charge want to keep it to this one issue. One issue, by the way, for which Trump has no defense.
The defense of trump is basically "we want to know who the whistlebower was". Which as a defense of wrong doing is absurd.
There is no doubt Trump is guilty of impeachable offenses and should be removed from office. And there is probably no doubt that Republicans in the Senate are cowards. Its all good.
The defense by democrats and in their actions …… IS..... Trump Won in '16, we can't let that happen on '20 !
Awe yes, blame the Republicans because Democrats can't win an election.
I blame Republicans because they think a known liar, crook, bigot, and moron should be president of the United States.
Trump's goP (gov't of Putin) can't win without Putin's help. Which the entire party is happy to accept and promote. Putin's propaganda is spewing from republican mouths every day now.
Really ?
As oppose to Hillary....good grief.
Probably !
Triggering the snowflakes on the left because Hillaryious Hillary lost is not abuse of power.
Obstruction again? Omg President Trump did not come sit done and admit to all the radical democrats bullshit so thats obstruction. Read the transcripts for fuck sakes.
come sit down....little correction before some snowflake gets triggered.
As soon as they got control of the house, they were determined to impeach for something, anything no matter how silly or how much time and money it cost.
Because treason is so much less than a blow job.
Clinton wasn't partially impeached for a blow job. He was impeached for perjury and obstruction (witness tampering). Look it up. Those are real damn crimes. No one gives a shit about the blow job except the left.
As for treason.
It has been stated many times, Trump winning an election is not illegal no matter how the left tries to make it so. TDDDDS victims are living in their own reality.
Mueller couldn't reach a decision on charges- something Starr had absolutely no problem doing with Clinton. Of course Starr had real evidence; not the conjecture, hard feelings, and smoke and mirrors of the Mueller report.
After all these years and you still don't know why slick willie was impeached...
ooooooo…...I almost forgot !
Stupid Democrats make me do that at times.
Did you see how the Dems were sooo sorrowful on their Impeachment crap "Stage Show", but then got all happy and giddy about how THEY ...... THEY...... THEY
.....were instrumental in getting the USMCA to a point of completion, 'cause THEY .... THEY ....are the only ones that really CARE about the "American" people 
??????
According to THEM , TRUMP DIDN'T DO THAT.
Democrats in congress are the most..... MORONIC …..SELF SERVING ….. MILLIONAIREs..... I have ever fucking seen.
And their voters are going to agree
.....THEY ARE THE ONES THAT DID IT ! 
"impeached for a non-criminal act like abuse of power" or obstruction of Congress
sounds like he was charged with calling them names and making them mad not high crimes and misdemeanors
That's about all it is ...but it does " depends " on your "Feelings" of what IS ...... IS !
Well, it only goes to show that once the sheep have been forced into the chute, it's too late to look for an exit. Let the shearing begin.
I doubt the American public is going to leap to the defense of a Congress whose job approval stands at 24 pct. While the country is split on approving of Trump; the country most definitely disapproves of Congress. Congress is an example of the whole being considerably less than its parts.
And yet the same people keep being voted back in...
Yep, that's what I said (believe it or not).
It sounds like a group of moderate Democrats are pushing Pelosi for a censure vote instead.
Way to rational of an idea for the moonbats who run the Democratic party. No chance they won't go for a party line impeachment instead.
Ok. Abuse of power. Would that be like the Democrats using the IRS to try to get Trump's taxes?
Obstruction of Congress. Would that be the equivalent of not representing the people? As far as I can tell, Trump has put the people and the country first. Wish I could say the same for the democrats.
Remember when it was obvious and clear that the president was guilty of obstruction of justice (not congress), bribery, extortion, and soliciting foreign interference in an election? Apparently we'll be dropping all that obvious stuff and going with the very vague "abuse of power" and the completely made up "obstruction of Congress."
Final Thoughts:
Pelosi has finally agreed to allow a vote on the USMCA. Without any doubt that is her cover point for the 31 moderate democrats who have been saddled with this impeachment process. They will get a little cover. The President will get his well deserved victory for a much needed fair trade agreement.