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KelleyKramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:45 PM Original message |
Two questions about impeachment |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. Impeach Them and Then Send Them to the Hague |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. Anyone in office can be impeached. |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. I did not know that it was mainly judges that were impeached. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. the president can pardon |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I disagree. "Cases" refers to the criminal charges. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 07:25 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Nope |
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papapi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. They cannot be pardoned if impeached and convicted. That's why Nixon resigned.... |
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KelleyKramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Can cabinet members be impeached? |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. No the Chief Justice presiding over the trial would then sentence them. |
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KelleyKramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 01:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The Chief Justice |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 01:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. The process has never gotten that far. But I would presume that's how it works. |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 02:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I was wrong about that. He can go to trial with out it being double jeopardy. |
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papapi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. That's what I said. Nixon got his pardon after resigning, before he was impeached, but..... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 06:51 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. United States Constitution Article I section 3 para 7 |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yeah I had forgotten about that particular provision. |
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KelleyKramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Ahhhh, OK |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 06:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. The only sentence prescribed by the Constitution is |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Wait... |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. True and "all officers of the United States" |
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hokies4ever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
9. Before Cheney I thought that it was indisputable that the V.P. was part of the Executive Branch |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
19. A great book |
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