Time to Panic: The Constitution Is On the Line with the Impeachment Trial
No one seems to be talking about this, but with a Senate acquittal of Donald Trump we may lose everything we hold dear in our constitution and there is a significant chance of emboldening dictatorial powers by Trump.
These are the serious and dangerous outcomes:
1. Separation of Powers, a Constitutional fundamental, will be dissolved. There will no longer be co-equal branches of government. The Senate will have approved of actions by Trump that express a "unitary executive", devoid of checks and balances. This will be a permanent precedent that the Senate will establish.
2. Congressional oversight, an Article 1 governmental underpinning, will be dissolved. The executive branch will no longer be accountable to Congress. It can ignore subpoenas, requests for records and documents, and requests for executive branch officials to appear before Congress.
3. The Article 1 clause regarding impeachment itself will be basically meaningless if the Senate votes to acquit. It is the Senate majority argument that the most egregious of violations of a president's oath of office (as stated in the Founders' arguments for impeachment) can be dismissed as not serious enough for removal from office. Thus, there will be NO threshold to cross that activates removal from office.
4. With impeachment and removal of an out of control president no longer an option, the president will be unencumbered by Constitutional limitations on power. Just as Trump is currently in the hunt for foreign propaganda to influence the coming election, he'll continue to do so all the way to November, knowing that there is no institution or government entity that can stop him from cheating in any way he can to win the next election. That's because he'll know that he can NEVER be removed from office, and he can manipulate the campaign-- and the election data, in any way he sees fit.
5. With the Constitution rendered meaningless, the power vacuum will be filled by Trump, who will then have the option to turn this democratic republic into a dictatorship. All of the elements for a dictatorship will be in place AFTER THE ACQUITTAL.
6. Remember the Patriot Act? The Patriot Act gives Trump the power to manufacture a national security emergency in order to cancel the election. It will be within his power to do so. If you're thinking that the "manufacturing" part will make it invalid, think again. By the time Congress acts, it will already be too late. A dictator doesn't have to wait for approval.
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You may laugh at this, but the Trump/GOP Party is well aware of these logical consequences of an acquittal. They all support the unitary executive assertions that AG Barr loves. They all support a "permanent Republican majority" goal, set in motion by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay in the 1980s, which includes gerrymandering, manipulating voting machines, changing voting data in servers, and radio/TV markets saturated with right wing propaganda.
With an acquittal Trump will be given explicit permission to pull in propaganda efforts by FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, unhindered by Congress or any other entity.
Why is this NOT part of the general discussion regarding impeachment and removal? Where are the legal scholars/celebrities who are on every news program, warning the viewers and anyone else of the logical and legal consequences of an acquittal???
The most consequential decision in US History is about to be made, and the entire Fourth Estate, AND the Democratic Party, are tragically silent.
For those who are reluctant to call out the real and historic crisis that is unfolding RIGHT NOW, fearing that it might panic the population: IT IS TIME TO PANIC.
It will be too late after the Acquittal.
When the Senate acquits, the Constitution dies.
Do what you can to spread this message and contact your Senators!
(modified somewhat from an important essay by "Eyeball Kid" on DemocraticUnderground.com)
These are the serious and dangerous outcomes:
1. Separation of Powers, a Constitutional fundamental, will be dissolved. There will no longer be co-equal branches of government. The Senate will have approved of actions by Trump that express a "unitary executive", devoid of checks and balances. This will be a permanent precedent that the Senate will establish.
2. Congressional oversight, an Article 1 governmental underpinning, will be dissolved. The executive branch will no longer be accountable to Congress. It can ignore subpoenas, requests for records and documents, and requests for executive branch officials to appear before Congress.
3. The Article 1 clause regarding impeachment itself will be basically meaningless if the Senate votes to acquit. It is the Senate majority argument that the most egregious of violations of a president's oath of office (as stated in the Founders' arguments for impeachment) can be dismissed as not serious enough for removal from office. Thus, there will be NO threshold to cross that activates removal from office.
4. With impeachment and removal of an out of control president no longer an option, the president will be unencumbered by Constitutional limitations on power. Just as Trump is currently in the hunt for foreign propaganda to influence the coming election, he'll continue to do so all the way to November, knowing that there is no institution or government entity that can stop him from cheating in any way he can to win the next election. That's because he'll know that he can NEVER be removed from office, and he can manipulate the campaign-- and the election data, in any way he sees fit.
5. With the Constitution rendered meaningless, the power vacuum will be filled by Trump, who will then have the option to turn this democratic republic into a dictatorship. All of the elements for a dictatorship will be in place AFTER THE ACQUITTAL.
6. Remember the Patriot Act? The Patriot Act gives Trump the power to manufacture a national security emergency in order to cancel the election. It will be within his power to do so. If you're thinking that the "manufacturing" part will make it invalid, think again. By the time Congress acts, it will already be too late. A dictator doesn't have to wait for approval.
---------------
You may laugh at this, but the Trump/GOP Party is well aware of these logical consequences of an acquittal. They all support the unitary executive assertions that AG Barr loves. They all support a "permanent Republican majority" goal, set in motion by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay in the 1980s, which includes gerrymandering, manipulating voting machines, changing voting data in servers, and radio/TV markets saturated with right wing propaganda.
With an acquittal Trump will be given explicit permission to pull in propaganda efforts by FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, unhindered by Congress or any other entity.
Why is this NOT part of the general discussion regarding impeachment and removal? Where are the legal scholars/celebrities who are on every news program, warning the viewers and anyone else of the logical and legal consequences of an acquittal???
The most consequential decision in US History is about to be made, and the entire Fourth Estate, AND the Democratic Party, are tragically silent.
For those who are reluctant to call out the real and historic crisis that is unfolding RIGHT NOW, fearing that it might panic the population: IT IS TIME TO PANIC.
It will be too late after the Acquittal.
When the Senate acquits, the Constitution dies.
Do what you can to spread this message and contact your Senators!
(modified somewhat from an important essay by "Eyeball Kid" on DemocraticUnderground.com)
posted by spooked at 10:20 PM
2 Comments:
i think that you are giving the trump too much credit. he is nothing more than a real estate agent, and not even a good one as he has needed a govt bailout at least 5 times so far. anyway, he does what he is told to do, so any dictatorial BS that he might get up to will not even be his own idea. also you say this:
The Patriot Act gives Trump the power to manufacture a national security emergency in order to cancel the election.
i assume you are thinking some kind of false-flag? that would indeed be a crime, but if that happens the real crime will be committed by all of the democrats who will keep their mouths shut and go along with it, just like they did with 9/11.
1/23/20
well the senate has finished voting and they have voted to accept McConnell's rules for this impeachment, which are; this impeachment "trial" will go forward except no evidence will be presented nor any witnesses be called until after this "trial" has concluded.
kind of puts the quotation marks around the word "trial", doesn't it.
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