Rick Scott proposes Constitutional Amendment to require 3/5 majority in House for impeachment

[Roland99]

https://news.yahoo.com/rick-scott-announces-constitutional-amendment-161120519.html

Senator Rick Scott (R., Fla.) on Thursday announced he would introduce a constitutional amendment to raise the House voting threshold to approve articles of impeachment to three-fifths of the chamber, instead of a simple majority.

“An act as divisive as impeachment must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support,” Scott said in a statement. “It should be harder — much harder — for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of the political majority.”

Scott’s proposal comes a day after President Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment in a Senate trial. The House vote to approve the articles fell almost completely along party lines, with one Democrat voting against, while Mitt Romney (R., Utah) was the only senator to break ranks with his party and vote to convict the president.

Snowball’s chance in hell of passing but the push for more authoritarian rule continues

[roamer65]

1. DOA.

Especially from a piece of shit scum sucker like Scott.

[applegrove]

2. Because the House is representative of a country where democrats are

the majority and the Senate is not representative.

It would be interesting to know how Rick Scotts real estate portfolio has changed in Florida over the years since he doesn't believe in climate change.

[ck4829]

3. Gonna really regret that on January 21, 2021 Scotty Boy...

Democrat: Breathes
Republican: IMPEACH! Oh wait... we need three fifths now...

[Voltaire2]

4. snowflake

[Takket]

5. I'm... that's why the Founders put the 2/3 threshold to convict you dumbass

[crickets]

28. +1

[CaptYossarian]

6. Yeah, you do that. Keep that in mind for the next Oral Office BJ.

That would make Pumpkinhead the very last impeached one in the history books. What a legacy.

[SCantiGOP]

7. I think I would probably support this

If you are going to need 67% in the Senate, what is wrong with 60% in the House?

[dem4decades]

9. One is to bring charges, the other convict.

[StarfishSaver]

23. For the same reason grand juries don't have to be unanimous but trial juries do

[msongs]

8. 3/5 where have I heard that number before? Oh yeah slavery nt

[jls4561]

12. Yeah, that's where he got the number

Also, a 2/3 number means he has to take off his shoes to do the math.

[captain queeg]

10. What the hell does Donnie have on these lowlife politicians?

[Roland99]

14. I doubt pRick has any kompromat

He’s just an asshole

[Liberalhammer]

11. 3/5th compromise

Seems the traitor is funneling the slave state history of Florida for his bill.

There are more minorities in the house than the Senate.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Rick Scott has every intention of running in 2024

Add to that - he is no different than MF45.

Of course he wants the job so he can profit while in office. He's seen Trump make bank, break the law, commit abuses of power -

And get away with it all.

He's just making sure he can get away with it too.

[C_U_L8R]

15. F'n Constitutional "Originalists"

They sure love to amend the Constitution to favor their own selfish criminal tendencies. Everything is topsy turvy with these buttheads.

[Dirty Socialist]

25. Reminds me of the movie "Demetrius And The Gladiators"

Demetrius: “I followed the rules”
Caligula: “We CHANGED the rules!!!”

[rockfordfile]

16. Rick Scott is a pos traitor. The Russians were big with him in FL

[sdfernando]

17. These "people" never learn.....stuff is coming back to bite them in the ass

and if it ever passed (it won't) they would rue the day the proposed it because it will stymie them when they want to impeach the next Bill Clinton.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Good luck getting that ratified, scumbag.

[Zolorp]

19. He first must get 290 members of the House to agree to decrease their own powers.

Then he must get 67 Senators to also agree to it.

Then he must get 38 State legislatures to also agree to it.

What a fucking moron. He'll never get the House, let alone the rest.

[BeckyDem]

20. I can't stand these fuckers. Nothing but thieves.

[spanone]

21. good luck rick.

[Goodheart]

22. Did this Scott jackass ever say to Mitch McConnell

"an appointment as important as a Supreme Court justice must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support"?

Fuck that hypocrite.

[Dirty Socialist]

24. Lemme guess

When a Democrat becomes president, Republicans will present a bill saying only a single Representative would be enough call to impeach.
Being an asshole: it’s what Rethuglicans do

[SWBTATTReg]

26. Figures. They (the repugs) don't want any checks on presidential misdeeds, obviously. With...

the Senate voting the two impeachment articles that reached them down, there's no need for it, the checks and balance are there already, even thought quite a few people didn't like the way it turned out in the Senate (I didn't, I had a secret hope that perhaps the repug senators would be finally sick and tired of rump and go to Pence, but no).

This will hang around the necks of everyone of those senators who voted to acquit rump. When rump does something so outlandish, so ignorant, etc. (you know it is going to happen, just a matter of time), that they'll be caught in the headlights like frozen deer on the highway...with the guilt pasted on their stupid faces. Can't fix stupid I guess.

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. Rick "Medicare Fraud" Scott proposes something impossible

to achieve, right in his stoopid wheelhouse.