Law prof Jonathan Turley predicts Dems’
impeachment ‘will go down as one of the
greatest historic blunders’
BizPac Review,
by
Frieda Powers
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/24/2020 8:22:32 AM
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley delivered a stinging assessment of the Democrats’ rushed impeachment process against President Donald Trump.The George Washington University Law School professor blasted Democrats during an appearance on CBS News for their second article of impeachment charging Trump with obstruction of Congress.(Video)“This is one where the House is completely unmoored by history and by the law,” Turley said.“I think that this will go down as one of the greatest historic blunders of a House of Congress,” he added.Though a liberal Democrat himself, Turley was appointed by Republicans as their witness in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing in December.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/24/2020 8:50:44 AM (No. 296994)
Unfortunately, it's pretty clear now that how it will go down in history depends entirely on who will be writing the history.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/24/2020 8:56:31 AM (No. 297001)
The attempted coup was no blunder in the pure sense. The Left's choice was to do nothing and suffer an embarrassing loss in the 2020 election or cheat, lie, deceive and commit sedition and treason to still suffer an embarrassing loss in the 2020 election with a slight chance of success in removing the unbeatable Donald Trump. The number of false charges they created and the nonsensical abuses of the Constitution were altered, fabricated versions of what they themselves had done by aiding and arming unfriendly foreign governments, weaponizing the DOJ and abusing the intelligence services. It was a failure by evil people but not a blunder.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HotRod 1/24/2020 8:58:42 AM (No. 297004)
It has already gone down in my book. My grandchildren are even starting to pay attention, which must be a first! I carefully explain what is happening and why. They can already sense the unfairness of the democrats, which is good. Young people are typically more moved by fairness.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/24/2020 9:29:13 AM (No. 297038)
It will go down as a political suicide previously unknown to the country especially if/when those responsible for the Spygate scandal are brought to justice. But, I wouldn't let the dims, msm, deep state, or the globalists write the history in any case. Never let hate write the history.
What emerges from the ashes of the democrat party in 2020 could well be a radicalized socialist party consisting of brainwashed millennials whose minds were permanently polluted by academia and the msm. The war between leftism and conservativism will further intensify. We'll get bludgeoned with the same leftist issues - guns, abortion, equality, and that elusive utopia.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/24/2020 9:40:02 AM (No. 297054)
Clinton's impeachment ranks right up there as well. The consequence was losing control of the US Congress. Yes, he committed a crime AND a cover-up but he should have been 'censured' not impeached. Had he just been officially 'shamed' I suspect that even Dems would have voted in favor. The current overreach and more importantly lack of a crime, however, deserves neither censure or impeachment but I hope reaps the same kind of ballot box disaster come November.
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Oh, stop it. The bar for "impeachment" has gotten lowered from unique instance to semi-regular occurrence. Every President since Washington has been threatened with it. Trump's "high crime" is that he is a threat to the UNIPARTY's profiteereing, a snapshot of which is the Biden bribery. He's not part of the cabal, nor apparently going quietly about his business of "draining the swamp." That makes him an existential threat. He has to go, but not this way...not after the farce presented by Nadler, Schiff, et al, and PDT's approval ratings. Wouldn't be prudent, as someone said.
Secondly, law professors drone on about "the law", which is whatever they want to make of it in their peculiar view. Impeachment is a purely political act. Courtroom legalities and "due process" are in the hands of the House and Senate, given sole Constitutional authority for impeachment and trial respectively. They're voting on process in the Senate, whether to hear witnesses. In the end it's simply speechifying followed by another public vote with political ramifications. The law be damned.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 1/24/2020 9:43:39 AM (No. 297062)
There isn't any obstruction of Congress. Obstruction of congress is one of his primary duties. That is why our intelligent framers gave the president Veto power over the congress and that requires a 2/3rd vote by the congress to overrule what the Marxist Communist Democrats are calling obstruction of congress.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dtrumpet2 1/24/2020 10:47:38 AM (No. 297123)
I think we are missing one of the main reasons that the Dems are trying to use impeachment. What was the first place that the Dems ran for to address to their lust for power? Don't be fooled by the fact that they are trying to discount the Courts. The longer they can stretch this out, the fewer judges get confirmed. This is where their agenda is starting to lose.
If they can get a few republicans to destroy themselves, then they can take the Senate. Someone ought to explain the dangers to all republicans and anyone who does not want to be a slave to the state.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 1/24/2020 12:24:06 PM (No. 297199)
It already has....and it's going to cost those idiots in November...mark my words...when Trump can pack a stadium and people stand outside in the rain and cold to watch a Jumbotron, and the doofus dems can't fill a one stall outhouse, it will be delicious to see them go down in flames...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 1/24/2020 1:16:15 PM (No. 297245)
I think it is clear that Turley is exactly right.
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