[Peace-discuss] Good Riddance Killary! Hillary R Clinton. We Came, We Saw, He Died"

[Bryan Savage]

well then, you should pour all of your funds, time and effort into that
impeachment process.  not a minute to lose.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:10 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Nov 25, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Bryan Savage <bryan at sneezingdogs.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ...You did stop WW III; but, wait, oh my god! Obama still has time to
> start the war. let's get busy on the impeachment resolution. First things
> first!
>
> Absolutely right. And also,
>
> "It is possible to impeach someone even after the accused has vacated
> their office in order to disqualify the person from future office [a
> Supreme Court appointment has been mentioned for Obama; cf. W. H. Taft] or
> from certain emoluments of their prior office (such as a pension)…"
>
> "In 1876, Secretary of War General William Belknap [who served in the
> scandal-plagued Republican administration of Pres. Ulysses Grant], accused
> of accepting a bribe, resigned just hours before the House was scheduled to
> consider articles of impeachment. The House went ahead and unanimously
> impeached him, and by a vote of 37-29 the Senate rejected the argument that
> Belknap’s resignation should abort the case. The Senate proceeded with the
> trial, but Belknap was narrowly acquitted. A number of the Senators who
> voted for acquittal explained that they felt they lacked jurisdiction
> because of his resignation…
>
> "By contrast, when in 1926 Illinois District Judge George English,
> impeached for various acts of wrongdoing, resigned from office six days
> before the scheduled commencement of his trial in the Senate, the matter
> was discontinued. The same was true, of course, when Richard Nixon resigned
> just prior to adoption of articles of impeachment by the House.
>
> "The Belknap precedent aside, is there any logic to impeaching and trying
> an official who is no longer in office? One answer might be the value of
> establishing a precedent that certain misconduct is (or is not) impeachable
> … Evidence suggests that the Framers of the Constitution concurred in this
> conclusion — they did not regard resignation as automatically precluding
> impeachment or conviction…"
>



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