The House Judiciary Committee today quickly approved two articles of impeachment Friday against President Trump on party-line votes accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The full House is expected to vote to impeach Trump next week. 45 years after Watergate, Republicans are all Congressman Earl Landgrebe now: At the height of … Read more
The House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings today with an academic discussion from legal scholars of what constitutes an impeachable offense. But the thugs in the Trump criminal enterprise that is the Party of Trump have other designs. Their goal is to disrupt, distract and discredit the impeachment hearings with their own obstruction of Congress … Read more
On Monday, House Republicans issued an impeachment prebuttal ahead of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment scheduled for Wednesday. It is a shocking exercise in alternative reality disinformation and propaganda based upon a Russian-inspired conspiracy theory. These “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans are all Kremlin propagandists now. As I have said before, the Party of … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been using their time for questioning of witnesses not to discover the facts of what actually occurred regarding Trump’s shakedown of Ukraine, but rather to pursue the “Spygate” conspiracy theory from the fever swamps of the right-wing which claims Democrats conspired with Ukrainian nationals to frame the president’s … Read more
One of the most important functions of our system of justice is the selection of an impartial jury. Judges and lawyers do this through a jury selection process called voire dire. A few key points: There must be assurance that the jurors chosen are unbiased, i.e., willing to decide the case on the basis of … Read more