Marco Rubio Asks at Senate Trial If Hillary Clinton Can Be Impeached, Convicted, and Barred...

[DonViejo]

Marco Rubio Asks at Senate Trial If Hillary Clinton Can Be Impeached, Convicted, and Barred From Future Office Too

By Sarah Rumpf Feb 12th, 2021, 7:47 pm

During the portion of the impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump where Senators could ask questions, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) turned the topic to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking if she could also be impeached, convicted, and barred from holding future elected office.

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Rubio’s question was as follows:

Voting to convict the former president would create a new precedent that a former official can be convicted and disqualified by the Senate. Therefore, is it not true that under this new precedent a future House facing partisan pressure to “lock her up” could impeach a former Secretary of State and a future Senate be forced to put her on trial and potentially disqualify from any future office?

“First of all, I don’t know how many times I can say it,” House Lead Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded first, arguing that the jurisdictional issues are “over” and “gone” — “The Senate settled it.”

Raskin then took some time to school fellow lawyer Rubio on the legal precedent, citing the Blunt and Belknap cases that both involved former officials, “and in this case we have a president who committed his crimes against the republic while he was in office. He was impeached by the House of Representatives while he was in office.”

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[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. And Rubio immediately called Trump and said

"DID I DO GOOD, MASTER???" and cowered in fear

[superpatriotman]

17. "Si, little Marco, si..."

"hiciste un buen trabajo..."

[Laelth]

2. Easy answer: Yes, but Hillary Clinton is not on trial today.

Next question.

-Laelth

[thucythucy]

10. Not to mention she was endlessly investigated

and far more thoroughly than Trump thus far, and those investigations revealed that she did NOTHING wrong or illegal.

So yes, technically she could be impeached. But there is absolutely no sane case for doing so.

[Laelth]

12. The House would have to take up the matter.

I don’t think that it will—no time soon, in any event.

-Laelth

[Irish_Dem]

3. They are bullies who keep threatening the Dems.

[BlueIdaho]

4. It always ends up back at Hillary...

Why do they think this trolling carry’s any weight with Democrats? Is this the new GQP corollary to Godwin’s Law?

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Not only does little marcos' intellect know no bounds

it obviously KNOWS NOTHING.

[Takket]

6. i would have just said 'yes." lol

honestly, if they just said yes, what is rubio going to say? LOL

[Laelth]

13. Precisely. "Yes" is the correct answer. n/t

-Laelth

[LakeArenal]

7. 🙄 Damn, Hillary wanted to hold no office anymore, and now she can't?!??

Step into the 2020’s Republicans.

[sop]

8. Marco Rubio, that sycophantic, opportunistic weasel, is an embarrassment to all Floridians.

[BlueStater]

9. I will do everything in my power to get this big-eared little fuck out next year.

Though, with the direction the state has been trending in the past decade, I have my doubts that I’ll succeed. Still have to try, however.

[bedazzled]

11. i will be working toward that too

both of our "senators" need replacement. first, that scumbag desantis has to go

[W_HAMILTON]

14. He's such a stupid ass.

Trump was impeached while in office; Hillary is not in office and therefore could not be impeached, which means there would be no subsequent trial, so, no, fuck Marco Rubio and his question.

And I was just thinking, for all the talk about due process, if someone is impeached while in office but not allowed a trial afterwards -- even if they leave office in the mean time, like Trump -- I would say THAT would be depriving someone of due process. So the Republican argument that "you can't try someone out of office" is even more of a sham when you think about it like this.

[Jakes Progress]

15. The only reason marco gets elected

is because his supporters are stupider than he is. That really puts them at a low level, because here is a sitting senator who keeps proving that he doesn't know what impeachement means.

Stupid and slimy is a terrible way to go through life.

[DFW]

16. So much grasping, so few straws...... n/t