Fearing Trump in 2024, Will Democrats Pursue the 14th Amendment?
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With the Senate’s recent vote to acquit President Donald Trump, it’s worth reminding ourselves that an impeachment is, as author and historian Victor Davis Hansen describes, an “indictment process” and that the Senate is where the “trial” is actually held.
It’s also worth noting that a Senate trial should never have been held in the first place, as Trump had already left office and was, by this time, a private citizen. This fact had already been acknowledged by John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who refused to preside over the Senate hearings.
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Snowy Houston. Photo credit: China Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom
Snow and frigid temperatures this week left millions of people without power in Houston and beyond. China Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom
Congressional lawmakers are demanding answers on how Texas electric grid failed nearly 4.5 million people who remained without power yesterday amid frigid temperatures.
Statements from some House Democrats, including from Texas, suggest Congress may seek more federal oversight of the nation s most independent grid operator. The failure of some power plants to produce electricity when we need it most has meant a great deal of suffering for those affected by the blackouts, said Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), an Energy and Commerce Committee member who represents a portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
“We have no regrets at all. We left it totally out there on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and every senator knew exactly what happened. And just go back and listen to McConnell’s speech,” Raskin said on NBC s Meet the Press, referencing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
“It could be First Amendment. It could be bill of attainder. It could be due process. I mean, all of them are nonsense,” Raskin told host Chuck Todd
Raskin’s fellow impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett
McConnell, she said, agreed with us. They all agreed with us. . We didn t need more witnesses. We needed more senators with spines.
The risk of violence was foreseeable, impeachment manager says Senate TV
Impeachment manager Joe Neguse made the argument that violence was both predictable and foreseeable at the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol riot. Was it foreseeable that the violence would erupt on January 6th if President Trump lit a spark? Was it predictable that the crowd at the Save America rally was poised on a hair trigger for violence that they would fight literally if provoked to do so? Of course it was. When President Trump stood up to that podium on January 6th, he knew that many in that crowd were inflamed, were armed, were ready for violence. It was an explosive situation. And he knew it, Neguse said.
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The Senate voted to call witnesses in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump today, after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated he would vote to acquit Trump. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo