Rep. Jamie Raskin kicked off the Donald Trump impeachment trial by railing against the "January exception" implied by the Republican argument that Trump can't be tried after he's left office. As Raskin says, this would implicitly mean that presidents can do anything they want during their last month in office and face no risk of punishment.
Rep. Joe Neguse is now following up on this, arguing that a "January exception" would allow any official to resign in order to avoid facing impeachment.
I believe that "January exception" will be the Democratic meme for the day. It's a smart move. I don't know what kind of technical legal force it has, but it's definitely the argument most easily understood by ordinary people.
US Parler posts by location over time,
https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lck8ga/us_parler_posts_by_location_over_time_oc/
True, but Janus must not only look backward, but forward.
When he addressed the rioters Bluto Barksalot used the word allowed ten times, reinforcing how their rights were being stolen from them and that he's giving them permission to do something about it,
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot
January exception is a little to technical for most people. Trump's behavior post election has been compared to a fired Best Buy employee trying to walk off with a television set. People will understand that.
'too technical.' An edit button please.
Hear hear! Surely WordPress must have this functionality. (Yeah yeah, who is Shirley WordPress, she must be worth a fortune by now.)
Here's what I think is truly amazing about this moment. Or rather what it tells you about the difference between the left and the right in this country.
The right stay so mad about just about any issue that blood is dripping out of their eyes and they can sustain that level of anger for months. I mean they still want to wave the bloody shirt about the four lives lost in Benghazi for goodness sake and that's just one small example of what they are capable.
The left (myself included) does not like to be angry. A gang of Trump supporting right-wing terrorists literally tried to overthrow the government just over a month ago and already it's hard for most people to get really passionate about it. How do the wingnuts do it? How do they stay so angry all the time and why have they all not died of hypertension already?
To the right Ben Ghazi, Hillary Clinton, Black Lives Matter and the rest are all dots on Glen Beck's chalkboard. When you connect the dots you get Rosemary's baby. When they are foaming at the mouth about the individual dots, they are scared witless about the larger pattern that has been woven for them.
What amazes me is somehow Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Jim Guy Tucker, Monica Lewinsky, KT Mc Farland, Harvey Weinstein, Mark Penn, & Robby Mook are still alive, while the Mc Dougals, Web Hubbell, & Linda Tripp (more than likely) expired from natural causes.
The Climptons, for being such stone cold killers, have never actually taken out anyone whose knowledge of their illicit activities could really end them. (Vince Foster excepted.)
It's always some two bit councilman or a bar owner who got into trouble for gaming law violations in Arkansas that gets got.
"Snap impeachment" is another one. Good for drinking games.
Right on time for the cold snap this weekend.
The Republican story is that a president can't be charged because impeachment for presidential crimes is the proper remedy.
But a president shouldn't be impeached because we should let the voters decide.
But the election is a lie so it should be overturned. If that doesn't work we'll launch a coup.
If you impeach after the election, there's no need to hold a trial before the term is up.
But you can't hold a trial after the end of the term.
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