Impeachment Amendment

[KCfromNC]

Both Biden and Obama. Had millions to billions of dollars of close financial connections to Ukraine.

Assuming this is true, so what? What does it have to do with Donald's documented attempts to coerce a foreign power to interfere in our elections?

 

[Erik Nelson]

Assuming this is true, so what? What does it have to do with Donald's documented attempts to coerce a foreign power to interfere in our elections?

President
Obama's
[UNITED STATES] National Security Advisor
was influenced
by billions of crooked dollars
from UKRAINE

 

[KCfromNC]

President
Obama's
[UNITED STATES] National Security Advisor
was influenced
by billions of crooked dollars
from UKRAINE

If you say so. Weird the DoJ doesn't seem to care, but whatever.

What does that have to do with Donald's documented attempts to coerce a foreign power to interfere in our elections?

 

[Erik Nelson]

If you say so. Weird the DoJ doesn't seem to care, but whatever.

What does that have to do with Donald's documented attempts to coerce a foreign power to interfere in our elections?

whereas you demand that foreign finances influence our elections, instead?

 

[Bodhicitta]

So it begins...

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is calling for an amendment to the Constitution that would make it more difficult for presidents to be impeached.

Scott's amendment would require a super-majority of three-fifths of the House of Representatives in order to approve articles of impeachment, instead of the current standard which is a simple majority.

"An act as divisive as impeachment must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support. It should be harder – much harder – for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of a political majority," Scott said in a statement. "I look forward to all of my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, joining me in this effort to protect the integrity of our nation and our constitution."

In order to pass, a constitutional amendment must receive approval from two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as ratification from three-fourths of all states, or 38 out of 50.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

So it begins...

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is calling for an amendment to the Constitution that would make it more difficult for presidents to be impeached.

Scott's amendment would require a super-majority of three-fifths of the House of Representatives in order to approve articles of impeachment, instead of the current standard which is a simple majority.

"An act as divisive as impeachment must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support. It should be harder – much harder – for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of a political majority," Scott said in a statement. "I look forward to all of my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, joining me in this effort to protect the integrity of our nation and our constitution."

In order to pass, a constitutional amendment must receive approval from two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as ratification from three-fourths of all states, or 38 out of 50.

Sounds like a failed initiative already. If a simple majority was all that was needed to pass an impeachment a month ago, then how are they ever going to get a super majority to vote to remove their own power of impeachment from themselves?

Not gonna happen because the Republicans know they one day will have a slight majority in the House and can use this as a cudgel against an out of control president with a democratic majority in the Senate as well.

 

[Bobber]

Sounds like a failed initiative already. If a simple majority was all that was needed to pass an impeachment a month ago, then how are they ever going to get a super majority to vote to remove their own power of impeachment from themselves?

You're probably right but you might be missing the point. The point is it's one more thing they can take to the American people in the election campaigns in 2020 that is for Congressmen who's term is up, that if you give us back the House we'll take measures to ensure this craziness doesn't happen again without at least serious safe guards.

 

[cow451]

Only amending our Constitution will have a lasting effect. Whether thru the convention of States method or the regular difficult process, these words should be added after the line about the House having 'sole power' to impeach:

And no Person shall be impeached without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Save one word, this is borrowed from the Senate section regarding their 'sole power' to try an impeachment case.

I totally oppose a constitutional convention. Period.

 

[ruthiesea]

The House of Representatives acts like a grand jury. I simple majority is sufficient to find probable cause for a trial. The senate, like a trial jury, must meet a higher burden.

It doesn’t really matter. An impeachment trial and error is not a search for truth. It is nothing more than another political game.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Only amending our Constitution will have a lasting effect. Whether thru the convention of States method or the regular difficult process, these words should be added after the line about the House having 'sole power' to impeach:

And no Person shall be impeached without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Save one word, this is borrowed from the Senate section regarding their 'sole power' to try an impeachment case.

Nah, things are good ae as they are. Impeachment in and of itself , since Clinton, is no longer considered a big deal or a black mark on a President. It is perhaps even becoming a badge of honor. The framers of the Constitution built in the fail safe of the trial in the Senate which is enough to keep any rashly entered into impeachment from being harmful.