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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 10:56 PM Feb 2017

Already plenty for impeachment. When will Repubs decide he is more liability than asset?

"There are already plenty of grounds to impeach Donald Trump. The really interesting question is when key Republicans will decide that he’s more of a liability than an asset.

If Trump keeps sucking up to Vladimir Putin, it could happen sooner than you think.

The first potential count is Trump’s war with the courts. The Supreme Court is likely to give expedited review to the order by the 9th Circuit upholding Judge James Robart’s order that tossed out Trump’s bans on immigrants or refugees from seven countries, even permanent US residents and others with valid green cards.

It’s encouraging that the agencies of government, such as the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, immediately deferred to the court order, not to a president who thinks he can govern by decree.

But suppose the Supreme Court finds against Trump? Will he try to defy the high court? That would be a first-class impeachable offense. Even Richard Nixon deferred to a Supreme Court order to turn over the Watergate tapes."

(snip)

"I know, I know ― impeachment requires charges by the House, and then a trial by the Senate. And these chambers are of course controlled by Republicans.

However, Republican alarm at Trump continues to increase at an accelerating rate."

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/march-to-impeachment_us_5897b401e4b0406131376a32

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Already plenty for impeachment. When will Repubs decide he is more liability than asset? (Original Post) Amaryllis Feb 2017 OP
When he hurts their chances of reelection. nt Xipe Totec Feb 2017 #1
Reality check: There are currently no grounds to justify impeachment. If we throw the "I-word" Trust Buster Feb 2017 #2
More likely homegirl Feb 2017 #3
Republicans back their president 100%, don't count on any of them. They picked his admin. Sunlei Feb 2017 #4
 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
2. Reality check: There are currently no grounds to justify impeachment. If we throw the "I-word"
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 11:11 PM
Feb 2017

around with reckless abandon, then we will not be taken seriously if/when the fool actually commits an offense that rises to the level of a justified impeachment.

homegirl

(1,427 posts)
3. More likely
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 12:18 AM
Feb 2017

Article 4 of the 25th Amendment. Mike Pence is waiting in the wings with his tap dancing shoes all laced up and ready to GO.

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