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09-23-20 Supreme Court Jester
Remove Nancy Pelosi from the speakership immediately
Rep. Andy Biggs September 22, 2020. WASHINGTON EXAMINER via MSN NEWS
Nancy Pelosi’s latest impeachment threat is proof she would rather use her post as speaker of the House to weaponize the chamber than as a means of accomplishing anything of substance for the country. She has no respect for the United States, our Constitution, or our way of life, and she must be removed from the speakership immediately.
Last week, the Freedom Caucus made the case for why Pelosi must go and why Congress must move forward on a resolution to “vacate the chair” and remove Pelosi as speaker. On Sunday, Pelosi provided us another, and perhaps the most sinister, example as to why she is unfit to serve as speaker.
In response to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Pelosi threatened to impeach (for the second time in a year) President Trump for carrying out his duty under the Constitution to nominate a justice to fill the vacancy. When pressed on what grounds she has to move forward, the speaker was shockingly coy, offering only that “we have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now.”
Why wouldn’t she provide a reason for continuing with what is supposed to be a solemn duty, impeaching a duly elected president, outlined in the Constitution?
She isn’t ready to discuss articles of impeachment because she has no case. She knows the president is only doing his job. Even worse, she knows that if she was successful in passing articles of impeachment in the House, they likely won’t go anywhere in the upper chamber. It takes only a cursory reading of the Constitution to see the Senate has the sole discretion to conduct an impeachment trial, meaning they could eschew a trial altogether and confirm the president’s nominee. read more
Rep. Andy Biggs September 22, 2020. WASHINGTON EXAMINER via MSN NEWS
Nancy Pelosi’s latest impeachment threat is proof she would rather use her post as speaker of the House to weaponize the chamber than as a means of accomplishing anything of substance for the country. She has no respect for the United States, our Constitution, or our way of life, and she must be removed from the speakership immediately.
Last week, the Freedom Caucus made the case for why Pelosi must go and why Congress must move forward on a resolution to “vacate the chair” and remove Pelosi as speaker. On Sunday, Pelosi provided us another, and perhaps the most sinister, example as to why she is unfit to serve as speaker.
In response to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Pelosi threatened to impeach (for the second time in a year) President Trump for carrying out his duty under the Constitution to nominate a justice to fill the vacancy. When pressed on what grounds she has to move forward, the speaker was shockingly coy, offering only that “we have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now.”
Why wouldn’t she provide a reason for continuing with what is supposed to be a solemn duty, impeaching a duly elected president, outlined in the Constitution?
She isn’t ready to discuss articles of impeachment because she has no case. She knows the president is only doing his job. Even worse, she knows that if she was successful in passing articles of impeachment in the House, they likely won’t go anywhere in the upper chamber. It takes only a cursory reading of the Constitution to see the Senate has the sole discretion to conduct an impeachment trial, meaning they could eschew a trial altogether and confirm the president’s nominee. read more