Kavanaugh WILL be impeached!!!

[orangecrush]

What is impeachment?
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the delegates concluded that even those holding the highest office would not be above the law, birthing the American system of impeachment.

Under the Constitution, the president, the vice president and “all civil Officers of the United States” (including those in the executive branch, plus federal judges) may be removed from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The procedure for impeaching a president or a federal judge is broadly the same.

There are two parts to the process:

The House is entrusted with the responsibility of voting on impeachment. Its members decide by a majority vote.

Then the Senate holds a trial for the underlying misconduct. A conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes. If there is a conviction, the Senate removes the individual from office.

How likely is Kavanaugh’s impeachment?
“It’s as likely as the Democrats winning the House,” said Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University School of Law.

“If they take back the House, I would be surprised if they don’t put forth impeachment proceedings in the next Congress,” Shugerman told The Washington Post.

“At the moment,” according to the Cook Political Report, “Democrats are substantial favorites for House control.”

[john657]

1. The House may very well impeach him,

but the Senate will never convict and remove him, the numbers are just not there and won't be for a long time.

[procon]

9. And is it advantageous to Dems to fight a no win battle that leaves them

wide open to attack?

Better that they should subpoena every last Republican in congress down to the file clerks and have them give sworn testimony in hearings chaired by the new Democratic majority is open session so the public can see what they've been up to in their name. The media headlines ill do a better job of skewering Republicans than an abreviated impeachment process.

[john657]

10. 1000% agree.

Win back the House and start REAL investigations.

[orangecrush]

19. Very optimistic.

[john657]

20. Nope, very realistic. n/t

[orangecrush]

23. More

will be revealed.

[john657]

25. I hope so,

because as of now, there's no chance of a successful impeachment.

[MFM008]

34. Never say never

Look at Alabama, just never discount anything happening.
When people are enraged things happen.
I remember in 1992 we lost almost all the republicans in our states delegation.
I think there was 1 left.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.

[Squinch]

2. Impeachment without conviction is useless.

[Roland99]

3. Ayup. Waste. Just hold hearings and real investigations and let indictments take over

[Squinch]

14. This.

[madville]

39. Indictments?

That would be up to the DOJ. The House committees really have very little power, even if someone ignores a House subpoena and is held in contempt of Congress they can only refer it to the DOJ for prosecution and they can just ignore it.

[john657]

4. +1000. N/T

[elocs]

17. Impeachment with no possibility of conviction

is like having sex with no possibility of orgasm.

[Nevilledog]

21. So....you're saying it's the same as having sex with trump?

[elocs]

33. The key word in my post is "like" and that tips you off it's an analogy.

But you probably knew that already in an attempt to be clever because Trump is never mentioned in my post since the subject is "Kavanaugh" WILL be impeached.

[ecstatic]

22. um... nt

[shanny]

5. I don't see it.

"Prosecuted" is possible; "sued" much more likely.
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I'd love to see him deposed by an opposing, practicing attorney (with all due respect to our Senators).

[calguy]

6. He'll get impeached

when I win the lottery. Sorry to say, but the reality is he'll be on the court long after I've left this earth.

[john657]

7. Unfortunately,

me too, now my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have to deal with this shit.

[diva77]

8. regardless of the outcome, the process is important for shining a light on the squatters holding

office or appointments who were installed due to 0-100 degrees of separation from election fraud

[rockfordfile]

11. Investigate first. A real investigation.

Disbarment can happen sooner.

[john657]

12. Even if he's disbarred, he can still serve on the SC.

There's nothing in the Constitution that says you have to be a lawyer to serve on the SC.

[ProudLib72]

32. One would hope that, after epic and complete embarrassment, he would resign

Or he could just become more vile and vindictive. At this point, however, I'm all for him being disbarred and humiliated in front of the nation.

[Paka]

13. Impeachment without conviction is worse than useless.

It energizes the opposition and makes us look like idiots.

[john657]

15. Yep.

Just ask the pubs how well it went for them when they tried to impeach, try, convict and remove President Clinton.

[Paka]

41. Amen!

[dflprincess]

16. He must have enough skeletons in his closet

That perhaps be quietly persuaded to resign. I'm guessing this could be done with any number of Spanky's appointees. And while I'd rather they be publicly shamed I could live with quiet resignations

[Codeine]

18. Nothing useful about that.

A total waste of time and self-destructive to boot. We gain nothing from an impeachment without conviction and end it looking weak and ineffective. That’s energy best spent elsewhere.

[LBM20]

24. NOT AT ALL unless something VERY VERY VERY serious surfaces. Let it go. WIN ELECTIONS!

[Freethinker65]

26. Nope. We are stuck with him until he dies or resigns

But he will continue to be ridiculed and I hope lying under oath becomes referred to something like "pulling a Kavanaugh". I have already used it with my young adult son when he was being less than truthful. He understood immediately!

[njhoneybadger]

27. Why fight a battle we can't win

[orangecrush]

30. +1

[Raine]

29. Waste of time,

energy and a total fantasy.

[elocs]

35. If the intention is to fire up the Republican base,

then by all means, impeach everybody in sight and spend a lot of time doing it.
Yeah, that'll show them, especially when there is ZERO chance of conviction in the Senate.

[LiberalFighter]

36. It will require continuous attack on Kavanaugh. Collecting damaging evidence.

Publicizing it continuously.

[Turbineguy]

37. I worked with a guy who always said

"I never fire people, I make their lives hell so they quit!"

[customerserviceguy]

38. Nope

A month from now, the name Kavanaugh will disappear from the news. I'm dead certain that we will have at least two things that Trump will move to the center of focus by then. And then, there are the midterms. Let us hope that things turn out well.

[briv1016]

40. It'll be like the 50+ times the Republicans "Repealed Obamacare" in the House.

Without 67 votes in the Senate it means nothing. Same goes for Donald.

[Demsrule86]

42. If you can't convict in the Senate don't impeach...waste of time and money and unpopular

with many Americans.