Peter Irons, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego, demonstrates that racism and extreme intemperance are impeachable offenses.
He attempted “to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States.”
He delivered “with a loud voice, intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and has uttered loud threats and bitter menaces, against Congress [and] the laws of the United States, amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes.”
He has brought the “high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule and disgrace.”
For these reasons, President Andrew Johnson was impeached.
Johnson’s deep-rooted racism, along with his verbal excoriation of his congressional foes as “treasonous” — something our current president has also done — led to his impeachment in 1868. Article 10 of his impeachment indictment provides a legal basis and historical precedent for making a president’s racist speech an impeachable offense, by itself, as evidence of unfitness to hold the highest and most powerful office in the land.
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Misdemeanors–I think the founders were thinking more of ‘bad demeanor; rather than a legal definition– as in not of the proper tone, attitudes, character to be president and racism, would count as well as stupidity, narcissism, fear, paranoia, etc…
And Johnson wasn’t convicted. Aye, there’s the rub.
Clinton too was impeached but not convicted. For lying.
Trump lies many times every day.
He should be impeached for disgracing the nation.
That would be tough, as Clinton’s mind was demonstrably clear and sharp, even pedantic. Trumplestillskinhead sounds like a deranged SpongeBob character on acid.
I know. But it he isn’t convicted, he wins. That’s all there is to it. And I DO NOT WANT HIM WINNING.
The only way to defeat Trump is to nominate a rational Democrat and beat Trump in 2020. Someone with their head screwed on right – fiscally conservative, pro-Israel, rejects identity politics, Remember the president that ran on and ultimately reduced taxes from 70% – ironically the same level prescribed by the loony left – his name? John F. Kennedy!
Not everyone paid 70%. Only the top tier and most of them had numerous loopholes.
In Eisenhower’s administration, the top marginal rate was 90%.
And we did not suffer from the extreme inequality that now exists.
Now the top marginal tax rate is 37% and there are plenty of legal loopholes for the corporations to avoid paying taxes (federal and state levels).
Amazon makes billions and pays no federal taxes.
Here’s a piece from CNBC about Amazon and other corporations not paying federal tax – thanks to the Trump-Republican tax cuts in 2017.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-income-tax.html
And according to this pice from gizmodo.com, “Amazon collects and pays a shitload of state taxes. Unless you live in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon, you are paying a sales tax whenever you make a purchase on Amazon. Last month, for example, I bought a Epson all-in-one wireless color printer for $59.99 and paid $4.95 in tax—or 8.25 percent, the sales tax in the state of Texas.”
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-claim-that-amazon-pays-little-or-no-state-taxes-1824186065
I CANNOT BEAR TO LISTEN TO THAT MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR. AHUMAN BEING. He needs to be. gone… like his pal Epstein.
Even if Moscow Mitch’s GOP controlled Senate will never have enough votes to impeach Donald Trump, the House must impeach Trump anyway because then we have a historical record of Trump’s crimes for generations long after we who are living are gone so fifty or a hundred years from now Americans can look back at and learn to avoid another Trump … if that is even possible.
The Senate has 100 elected representatives. Sixty-six votes are needed to get rid of Trump. The current Senate has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and 2 Independents (who both caucus with the Democrats.
That means, if all 45 Democrats and the 2 Independents vote in the Senate to Impeach Trump, 19 Republicans Senators will have to cross the aisle and vote with the Democrats and Independents, and most of the Republicans that might have done that have all retired to escape what is becoming the new Trumplican Party.
Johnson may have mouthed rascist rants, but he did it at a time when much of the European world assumed its superiority. Machine guns mowed down Africans and the world yawned. The Sand Creek massacre was heroic. The Chinese Exclusion Act was yet in the future.
Our president is acting the way he does in an age where impeachment should never be necessary. His tirades should have turned the stomach of all but a few wingnuts. But he was elected, even though we all knew he was a rascist. I do not think that the founding fathers saw impeachment as a way for removing such people. I think the Madison and Jefferson crowd saw impeachment as a remedy for smaller “high” crimes. We should not expect constitutional safeguards meant for crimes to safeguard in the case of philosophy antagonistic to the liberty of the citizens. We must prevent the election of such individuals.
Impeachment might be the best ploy, but trumps base will no more desert him than Clinton’s base did. T umps base is convinced that his opponents are evil. They will support him if he boils their children alive, believing that Obama would have done worse.
People who oppose trump should seek to offer a different vision for our country. I suggest one that gives all people hope of participating in the democratic process. All people. Maybe more of the dispossessed will go to the polls, and trump can go to his tower and play wit Rapunzel.
Is RACISM and TERRORISM seem to go hand-in-hand.
Make Orwell fiction again.