Is It Impeachment?

For John, BLUF:  If it wasn't so serious, it would be very humorous.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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A Trump Impeachment Imperils the Constitution

From NewsMax, by Professor Stephen B. Presser, 21 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus four:

The premise behind these essays is that we still have much to learn from the framers of our Constitution.  In our time this is controversial, given that the framers were all male, many of them were slaveholders, and the document they drafted is now more than two centuries old.

There are those, primarily Democrats, who appear ready to jettison major features of the Constitution, such as the Electoral College, which provides for indirect election of the president, and occasionally results, as it did with Donald Trump, in a president who gains the office but did not win a numerical majority of votes cast.

For some, such as Mrs. Clinton, this is enough to render Mr. Trump illegitimate, and, surely, that feeling lies behind the unceasing attempts to tarnish the Trump Presidency, from the Russia Collusion hoax right onto the current secret impeachment proceedings.

Some have begun to understand that the impeachment effort is itself an attempt to subvert our Constitutional scheme.

Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), recently published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner, arguing that by proceeding in secret, Mrs. Pelosi and her designated impeachment hatchet man, Adam Schiff, are violating our Constitutional norms of due process.  These violations include the fact that the president has been deprived of the right to confront witnesses, the failure to follow the Nixon and Clinton precedents of initiating impeachment proceedings by a vote of the entire membership of the House, and the failure to accord Republicans the right to summon witnesses to the closed-door hearings.

The good news is that it hasn't really gotten to Impeachment, since the House hasn't voted to start an Impeachment Investigation.  We don't think they would try to pass over to the Senate some sort of "Secret", Dem Eyes Only Impeachment, do we?

From Law Professor Green Harlan Reynolds:

What’s funny is, people say that we should impeach Trump because he’s a threat to norms and the Constitution.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff