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Post by oldarmybear on Dec 12, 2019 19:45:55 GMT -5
McConnell will move to acquit Trump if he's impeached, not merely dismiss charges, 2 Republican senators say (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to hold a final vote to acquit President Donald Trump, should he be impeached, when a majority of senators believe his trial has run its course instead of holding a vote on dismissing the articles of impeachment, two Republican senators told CNN on Wednesday. Republicans want to have a vote on acquittal -- to clear the President of the charges against him -- not simply rely on a 51-vote threshold procedural motion to dismiss the hotly disputed case. The Constitution mandates 67 votes are required to convict the President and remove him from office, a barrier widely considered too high to be reached in this case. One vote McConnell can't rely on is that of Vice President Mike Pence, who has "no role in impeachment," according to a GOP leadership aide, despite being president of the Senate with the mandate to break ties. Pence's power, which applies to legislation and nominations, isn't in effect when the Senate is weighing removing his boss, an obvious conflict of interest since he would replace Trump if he were removed. Instead, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts would preside at the trial and any tie motions would fail. One of the senators, speaking anonymously, said McConnell would not call a vote on a motion to proceed to the impeachment articles unless he knew he had the 51 votes needed to end the trial, which would then set up a final vote on the articles themselves. On that final vote, 67 votes would be needed to convict Trump and remove him from office. The other senator, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said it "would make more sense" to move to vote on the articles of impeachment -- with their 67-vote requirement -- than on a motion to dismiss and "decide this on a 51-vote threshold, with the potential tie and all the recriminations that would flow from that." McConnell hinted at this strategy when he spoke to reporters on Tuesday and said the Senate would have two choices after hearing opening arguments from the House impeachment managers and the President's defense counsel. "It could go down the path of calling witnesses and basically having another trial or it could decide -- and again, 51 members could make that decision -- that they've heard enough and believe they know what would happen and could move to vote on the two articles of impeachment," he said. "Those are the options. No decisions have been made yet." www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/politics/mcconnell-impeachment-trial-acquittal/index.html
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Post by skrumpie on Jan 17, 2020 8:41:27 GMT -5
OMG. Look what they put the emphasis on.
ROTFLMAO@SOCIALISTS. Every single one of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 10:15:47 GMT -5
Thanks for putting your stupidity in print for all to see. That the dumbocrats needed to put forward a black woman SIMPLY because she is black shows that the dumbocrats, AND YOU are very superficial and do not possess any deep intellect! Still was way cool, Cletus. Only in your backwards mind is superficiality cool!
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Post by oldarmybear on Jan 17, 2020 12:45:49 GMT -5
No, Tuba, it was just another liberal political stunt.
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Post by tubaornottuba on Jan 17, 2020 16:29:30 GMT -5
No, Tuba, it was just another liberal political stunt. But still meaningfully poignant. Yep, it was way cool for honest Americans. I wager some conservative ones too. For MAGAts, not so much, eh Sport?
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Post by skrumpie on Jan 17, 2020 17:32:18 GMT -5
The only people that paid attention to it were meaningless and shallow socialists, Tuba.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 19:04:05 GMT -5
No, Tuba, it was just another liberal political stunt. But still meaningfully poignant. Yep, it was way cool for honest Americans. I wager some conservative ones too. For MAGAts, not so much, eh Sport? Not at all, except in your mind.
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Post by katie5445 on Jan 21, 2020 21:38:14 GMT -5
The only people that paid attention to it were meaningless and shallow socialists, Tuba.
You need to come up with something better than that load of twat.
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