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It’s now time to go to Plan B – A Censure Resolution Pursuant To Section 3 Of The 14th Amendment
February 14, 2021
A justifiably angry House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out censure after Trump acquittal: After the Senate voted to acquit former President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday ruled out censuring the former president — an idea that several Republicans had floated in recent days. “Censure is a slap in the face of the Constitution.
Political Calendar: Week of February 14, 2021
February 14, 2021
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No, Trump Was NOT “Acquitted,” Nor “Exonerated,” Nor Found “Not Guilty”
February 13, 2021
With the cowardly vote of 43 GOP Senators to not impeach Donald Trump for one of the greatest political offenses in the history of our republic, the GOP will be using the words “acquit,” “exonerate,” and “not guilty” or even “innocence” on repeat. None of the those legal terms apply. Impeachment is not a criminal
Shame on Them: 43 Members of the Former Party of Lincoln put Guilty Donald Trump over the Country
February 13, 2021
When the record second impeachment trial of Donald Trump commenced earlier this week, I was struck by how much the first-day vote on the constitutionality of the trial reminded me of the courtroom scene from the 1962 movie based on Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In that scene, lawyer Atticus Finch (played by
A Bipartisan Majority of The Senate Votes To Impeach Donald Trump – His Enablers Prevent His Conviction (Updated)
February 13, 2021
For the first time in U.S. history, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted for impeachment of a president, and for the first time in U.S. history, to impeach a former president. (Sen. Mitt Romney previously made Donald Trump’s first impeachment bipartisan for the first time in history). The Senate voted 57-43 to impeach
Trump Impeachment Defense: Defending The Indefensible
February 13, 2021
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell” ― Carl Sandburg. Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers took this to heart on Friday, pounding the table and yelling like hell because
What kind of leader is Kevin McCarthy? Turns out he is a Really Pitiful One
February 12, 2021
New details have emerged on the phone call House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had with Donald Trump during the Trumpist Domestic Terrorist Attack on the Nation’s Capitol. In new reporting by CNN and other media sources, Mr. Trump refused to call off the rioters and send aid to the Capitol, telling McCarthy: “Well, Kevin, I
In the Case of Mark Finchem, Tribalism over Justice at the Arizona House Ethics Committee
February 12, 2021
When will the members of the former Party of Lincoln speak up for law and order for real? It is not coming any time soon from the Arizona State House Ethics Committee where Chairperson Becky Nutt put tribal party loyalty over the request for truth and justice by denying multiple requests to conduct an ethics
