Laurence Tribe...Pompeo should be impeached

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[dempls]

1. Pomp

And Incarcerated

[2naSalit]

2. He's dangerous

and needs to be isolated from society and that's all there is to it.

[SallyHemmings]

4. He shouldn't bail and run for Senate

[2naSalit]

6. Nobody gets out of this one

without lady justice's dance with them first.

[gratuitous]

7. The possibility of prosecution may keep him as Secretary of State

The administration and the Department of Justice have taken a hard line for the president that he can't be prosecuted for any criminal acts while in office, so I wouldn't be surprised if they try to extend that to cabinet level officials.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Do you mean "make bail"?

[SallyHemmings]

30. Seriously

[Perseus]

15. Which one on the top is not dangerous? How about Barr

I worry even more about Barr, he is "the law"...he is very dangerous and crazy.

[dchill]

19. He's the Sheriff of Nottingham.

WITHOUT the charm of Alan Rickman.

[2naSalit]

21. I can't argue with that.

He's just as dangerous. I had them both in mind when I made the comment.

[OnDoutside]

3. I wouldn't bother impeaching him, just do a Kevin McCarthy on him to destroy his Republican

"reputation".

[tymorial]

5. What person in the cabinet isn't a criminal?

That's the real question

[BuffaloJackalope]

8. Postmaster General?

[Kurt V.]

9. he's going to quit and run for senate in kansas. can he still be impeached?

[ancianita]

11. Why not?Just because he announces he retires next spring doesn't change the basis of his impeachment

[Kurt V.]

12. beats me. That's why i asked.are there special circumstances for impeachment, like still holding

the sec of state job?

[ancianita]

13. So anytime before spring, right?

[Kurt V.]

14. i hope so. also his chances of winning in Kansas, a state in rebellion, aren't as good as once was

[ffr]

10. K&R

I'm with LT!

[Initech]

16. Impeachment? Trump will fire him tomorrow before he can say a word.

Then deny that he had anything to do with hiring Pompeo and dismiss all reports as fake news. Count on it.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Now we're talking business

These top 4 or 5 perps should do hard time. And Wilbur Ross is never mentioned.

The country is very quiet. Fewer posts on DU today, I attended a luncheon last week and no one mentioned politics. Zippo. I think there is a sense now, after today's bombshells, of uncertainty. Now what? Where do we go from here, how do we deal with this.

[ancianita]

20. Dems, led by Speaker Pelosi, go the way of the Constitution. That's certainty. Oaths of office to

protect and defend it against scofflaws, are the first way we deal with abuse of the powers of politics.

How to deal with "this" (maybe whatever people think is 'wrong' about leadership, who knows) is through impeachment. Only the 4th impeachment in US history, what's happening might not be clear to the public that hasn't kept up with politics, but hearings give good information to Americans that allow them to think, read more about the law, Constitution, and the due process work of good governance.

The impeachment process engenders greater trust in government to govern itself according to constitutional law. To see how a nation of laws is different from a nation of men is needed by citizens of a democracy as big as this one. Also by OECD countries of the West.

People's silence might mean they are watching, thinking, reading more, and hopefully, learning how politics and our international relations are connected to them. 40% who don't vote might rethink their reasons or the lack of.
Overall, a quiet country might not be a bad thing.

imo

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Astute, thanks for that

These proceedings may well give a boost to citizenship awareness, more people may come to realize life is more than how much money and plastic junk you can grab into your life, that it all makes little sense if you are being plundered every time you turn around and your civil rights are being stolen.

Trump has empowered thievery at the highest level and stretched the law to suit his objectives. We need to quit the selective enforcement and put some teeth into the rule of law that deal with big players and big issues.

[ancianita]

24. Agreed.

[BigmanPigman]

18. He wants to run for the Senate and coffeeboy

Papadopolous (sp?) is running for the House?!?!?!?

[Celerity]

25. and that fucker Barr, pus Moscow Mitch, a shit tonne of judges, and would LOVE to see

Gaetz and Gym Jordan tossed out of the House as well.

[maxsolomon]

27. Take a gander at Jordan's OH district, the 4th. The Duck District.

Gerrymandering will keep him in Congress indefinitely.

There are NO towns of any appreciable size (Lima is the largest, and <40K), let alone cities. Deliberately so.

[Celerity]

28. it is going to take decades to unclusterfuck the RW gerrymandering done over the past

50 plus years. We have to win back state houses and senates and also the key election years are every 10 (because of the the census) like this one in 2020.

[spanone]

26. K&R...👍🏼

LOCK.HIM.UP.

[gibraltar72]

29. In all fairness he thought he'd be raptured by now.