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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould Trump be impeached if he shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue?
What if the Senate refused to convict ?
Would the Democrats still impeach?
Or would we have to wait until the next election for any justice?
Just a theoretical question.
elleng
(130,732 posts)so YES.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)sakabatou
(42,136 posts)The House... I don't know what they'd do.
egduj
(805 posts)over the next half year before considering it.
comradebillyboy
(10,128 posts)Yes he can be impeached, no Mitch and his accomplices won't vote to convict. So Trump stays and brags about being exonerated.
msongs
(67,361 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)We live in extraordinary, depressing times
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)the victim in the back
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)Mitch would agree.
Lindsay would demand the shot person be prosecuted for assault.
The Republican party today.
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)JI7
(89,240 posts)but the most important thing is getting rid of him from public office.
You would hace zero republican support and still have NP scared of her shadow on it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Let's get real. There are two scenarios in that case:
1. The nation knows he murdered someone, and the Republicans vote to remove him and Pence becomes president.
2. The RW swiftboating machine successfully convinces much of the nation Nancy Pelosi is the murderer, McConnell calls for investigation and prosecution, and "the worst full of passionate intensity" on both sides call for going straight to lynching.
The passionate right would be sure that she did it to protect Hillary's international pedophile ring, the left that "NP" did it for any of a number of the insults Hillary's successor as most powerful woman inherited. And, of course, "the best who lack all conviction," would be confused and disengage.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)....because someone doesn't have the "skill" and/or backbone to do anything about it.
Not acceptable?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the disengaged to join us to do what needs to be done. The numbers are growing, but so damned slowly, ...
Didn't occur to me before, but Dorian stalled over the Bahamas is like an analogy for the summer doldrums of politics. Can't force people to pay attention when it's not time any more than you can move Dorian by poking it with a stick.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)Remind me again?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Nancy et all are scared for themselves and who've been demanding for months that we hurry and throw ourselves into McConnell's trap are somehow leaders of anything. Nancy et al are leading.
Most of those will no doubt gladly join the rest in supporting the kind of action they crave and can recognize as action. If it is of that sort.
But, Kentuck, don't fool yourself or be fooled: No matter what kind of action is taken, recognizable as such or too complex to understand and to infuriatingly slow to accept, some will advance new passionate reasons to continue opposing those who lead us. And some will become angry all over again and stumble into that trap full of people primed to believe nothing our elected leaders do will be right.
Every fool's heard of Sun Tzu's type of warfare, but very few wonder if they're the ones being defeated before they ever get to fight.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)"McConnell's trap"?
Are you sure that is not part of someone's imagination?
"Murderer Wins Landslide!"
LAS14
(13,769 posts)... he'd be tried by a state court. No problem with 3 equal parts of the federal government.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)Is that not correct?
LisaL
(44,972 posts)kentuck
(111,052 posts)...state charges could be pressed.