Key Democrat Witness Noah Feldman in
May: ‘Impeaching Trump Has Become
Too Political to Take Seriously’
Breitbart Politics,
by
Hannah Bleau
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
12/4/2019 3:05:04 PM
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses called to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, authored an op-ed in May lamenting the lack of seriousness surrounding efforts to impeach President Trump, and admitting that House Democrats “made it painfully clear that discussing impeachment is primarily or even exclusively a tool to weaken Trump’s chances in 2020.”
Feldman authored an op-ed featured in Bloomberg in May titled, “It’s Hard to Take Impeachment Seriously Now” and suggested that many of the ongoing discussions of impeaching Trump treat the action as a “trivialized gambit within the ordinary game of electoral politics.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/4/2019 3:06:21 PM (No. 252723)
Last May Mr. Feldman, who clearly loves the spotlight, had no idea he’d be called as an expert witness...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/4/2019 3:07:32 PM (No. 252725)
(hit submit too soon)
FTA:
“Impeachment was intended by the constitutional framers as a highly serious option reserved for only the most extraordinary, egregious violations of the rule of law,” he wrote.
“Today’s discussion treats impeachment as a trivialized gambit within the ordinary game of electoral politics. The undermining of the constitutional ideal is near-total,” he continued, calling it “almost laughable.”
Throughout the article, Feldman stresses the serious nature of impeachment – something, he alluded, has been absent from the ongoing discussions on impeaching Trump. While he acknowledged the “political” aspects of impeachment, he argued that the Founding Fathers deliberately made “successful impeachment and removal very difficult, precisely to discourage Congress from taking the whole process lightly.”
“They chose words with grand implications — ‘high crimes’ — to underscore that removing the president outside of elections must not be undertaken lightly,” he wrote, ultimately observing that the ongoing debate surrounding impeaching Trump “robbed impeachment of its original serious content and atmosphere.” He continued:
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/4/2019 3:22:58 PM (No. 252731)
Feldman mentions lawmakers meeting Madison and Hamilton in the afterlife and having to justify their actions; what about you, Noah? What will you say to God when He judges you and asks why you lied under oath to Congress? The only one telling the truth is Turley, and he is neither for nor against Trump-he is for the TRUTH. And truth is something that Noah Feldman, or Pamela Kar;lan, or Michael Gerhardt seem to have barely a fleeting accquaintance with. The whole thing is a farce and all the Dems belong in jail. Every one of them is guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury, and treason.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/4/2019 4:00:10 PM (No. 252741)
He is not an expert and he is no witness. Witness to what? Witness to acts of extreme hate and stupidity. He is there to be a part of the dog and pony show and actually he is the clown act.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jebediah 12/4/2019 4:08:48 PM (No. 252742)
I guess his 15 minutes of fame superseded his doubts about the impeachment legitimacy. But all in all, I have been watching this travesty (with exceptions, like turning off for Sheilah Jackson Leigh--HOW does this woman get ere-elected?) and I think it is a Republican plus, particularly in the case of the woman prof from Stamford. She is so strident, so unlikeable, so willing to NOT consider the fact that the witnesses she has watched on tv are culled from what Schiff and Nadler want and is therefore "insulted, that she speaks volumes in her severe black suit and with her waving hands.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/4/2019 4:11:31 PM (No. 252747)
I was just at HLS walking by the pictures they have of all the faculty members on the wall... thinking of how embarrassing it must have been to have had a fake Indian on the faculty. Now they are beclowned again with Feldman's contradictory testimony... but maybe they're not embarrassed, maybe that's expected, it's what lawyers do... it's not lying, it's obfuscating, prevaricating, and dissembling.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
john56 12/4/2019 5:05:27 PM (No. 252780)
Somebody had a serious talking-to with Professor Feldman sometime beyween May and December. I guess it took him 6 months to "recover" from the discussion.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Avikingman 12/4/2019 5:06:46 PM (No. 252781)
One cocky SOB, surprised he wasn't smoking a pipe.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/4/2019 6:43:10 PM (No. 252830)
Feldman looked like he parachuted in, from a 1930s movie. Was he wearing spectator shoes?
And did the loud, strident lesbian professor have access to depositions hidden from the republicans?? Why is she so angry? A spat with her lesbian partner, Viola?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/4/2019 6:50:25 PM (No. 252842)
Uh-Oh!
A truth teller......Off with his head!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/5/2019 1:56:16 AM (No. 253056)
There you have it. A commie demonrat law professor saying that impeachment is for the sole purpose of influencing the 2020 election. Why isn't this interference in the 2020 election being investigated and prosecuted?
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ussjimmycarter 12/5/2019 3:15:32 AM (No. 253078)
Wait until the next POTUS is caught with his trou round ankles! He will be tarred, feathered and run out on a very sharp rail!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/5/2019 3:16:25 AM (No. 253080)
DemocRAT POTUS, of course!
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