[Magdalen] Comey testifying

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, since the Republicans own Congress, I don't see any of that happening.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Grace -- impeachment by the House of Representatives does not remove the
> President from office.  But it sets up a trial in the Senate.  As a result
> of conviction by the Senate, the President is removed from office.
>
> Impeachment clauses in the Constitution:
> http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_2_5.html
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You're right about Nixon, Christopher.
> >
> > I have to confess that I don't even understand the point of impeachment.
> > It doesn't get the person put of office--in fact, as far as I can tell,
> > absolutely nothing changes.
> >
> > It seems the only way you can get a president out of office is to invoke
> > the 25th Amendment, which won't happen with this Congress, or for him to
> > actually be convicted of a felony. And even in that case, with the
> > likelihood of never ending appeals, a president's full term would be
> served
> > before anything was actually done.
> >
> > If I sound cynical, it's because I am.
> > No one seems to have the will or the courage to stand up as the pieces of
> > our government are being dismantled and our rights eroded, one by one.
> You
> > know the story of the frog in the pot of slowly heating water--that's
> where
> > I think we are, and no one seems willing to turn off the heat or take the
> > pot off the stove.
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Point of order - Three presidents have been impeached.  None convicted
> > >> (Nixon resigned before he could be tried in the Senate).  Impeach =
> > indict,
> > >> not convict.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > I don't believe that Nixon was actually impeached by the House of
> > > Representatives. The investigating committee recommended articles of
> > > impeachment, but I think he resigned before the full House ever acted
> on
> > > them. He doubtless would have been impeached though had he not
> resigned.
> > >
> > >> --
> > >
> > > Christopher Hart
> > >
> > > List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
> > > Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
> > > Twitter: @cervus51
> >
>



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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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