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.@RepAdamSchiff slams Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans for significantly deviating from the process for impeachment used with Clinton, even though McConnell said they would. "This is not a process for a fair trial, this is a process for a rigged trial."
.@RepJerryNadler, speaking about the Senate GOP's impeachment rules, says "the only reason to oppose bringing a witness is to cover up because you're afraid of what the witness will say."
RELATED: McConnell is trying to hide Trump's impeachment trial from the public americanindependent.com/mitch-mcconnel…
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Oliver Willis
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dems: please agree to rules
gop: sure. yeah. we agree to rules.
dems: look everyone, we're playing by rules.
gop: *declares anarchy*
dems: but you said there were rules
gop: we... um... lied
dems: well that isn't fair
gop: too bad, suckahs
gop: *lies*
dems: "they are lying, say they're lying"
press: "democrats claim gop is lying, gop denies"
dems: "no but theyre objectively lying"
gop: "no we aren't"
press: "gop/dems trade barbs"
dems: "please just report the truth"
press: "dems, losing to gop, whines"
gop: lol
democrats should
- quit begging the gop to be good
- talk shit about republicans
- slam the media for not reporting on said shit talking
- talk more shit
- repeat
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Oliver Willis
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Trump's lawyer Pat Cipollone makes up the claim that Democrats "are here to steal two elections." He adds: "They want to remove the President Trump from the ballot." Cipollone says Democrats want to take away "the right to choose our president."

This is not true.
.@RepAdamSchiff shreds Republicans for trying to exclude evidence and witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial: "They made no effort [to defend the resolution] ... because it's indefensible, indefensible."
Referring to personal attacks from Trump's lawyers against him and the other House impeachment managers, @RepAdamSchiff says he won't dignify them with a response but notes: "What you're really hearing is: 'We don't want to talk about the president's guilt.'" #ImpeachmentTrial
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Oliver Willis
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here to remind you that jay sekulow is a grifter of the highest order
Jay Sekulow regularly pushes false claims and conspiracies mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/t…
"in 2001 one of Sekulow’s nonprofit organizations paid a total of $2,374,833 to purchase two homes used primarily by Sekulow and his wife. The same nonprofit also subsidized a third home he uses in North Carolina." web.archive.org/web/2007021621…
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Alyssa Milano
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I’m in the Senate Chamber for the removal trial.

This is what democracy looks like.

They’re taking my phone.

I’ll update later.

#impeachment
My take-away thus far: the defense feels totally unprepared compared to the Impeachment Managers.

I have a direct view of defense attorneys. They’re occasionally smiling/scoffing at things Impeachment Managers are presenting. Feels like they aren’t taking this process seriously.
.@RepAdamSchiff is in total control. Trump should probably change his nickname to: Sharp Schiff.

Sharp Schiff is making the defense look like hacks. *I’m* giving *them* the nickname: Delusional Defense.
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This thread will explain the step-by-step process of the House of Representatives transmitting articles of #impeachment against President Donald Trump to the US Senate. #ImpeachmentTrial
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 5:30 pm, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, signed the articles of #impeachment while flanked by the 7 House impeachment managers: Schiff, Nadler, Lofgren, Jeffries, Demings, Crow, & Garcia.
Early morning, Thursday, January 16th, procedures are implemented to recognize the solemn event about to transpire. Capitol police wear more formal attire and limitations on movement & ‘no walking and talking’ restrictions are placed on the press.
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Peter Daou
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#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE:

1. House Dems can #ImpeachTrumpNow with their majority. No more evidence is required.

2. Senate Republicans will almost certainly vote to acquit.

3. Trump will be impeached for history but not removed.

4. Dems can then focus on sweeping in 2020.
#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE (2)

The only remote possibility of Trump leaving office early is if #McConnell and other GOP leaders think he's too much of a liability to their rightwing power grab and push him to resign.

But like I said, "remote."
#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE (3)

Arguments for waiting to schedule a vote are:

1. Gather more facts.
2. Exert more pressure.
3. Get more evidence against his accomplices.

None of those outweigh the fact that he harms people every day and #impeachment is an urgent moral imperative.
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Larisa Alexandrovna
@larisa_a
1. I am so sick of hearing that the ONLY reason Trump should be impeached is if he conspired with a foreign power to steal the election. Let's remove that entire smokescreen and look at impeachment as a tool and why Trump needs to be impeached EVEN WITHOUT conspiracy allegations.
2. First, let's be clear about the ramifications of Pelosi's impeachment-is-too-divisive bullshit. We heard this before, about 15 years ago, when she took impeachment "off the table" even though the Bush administration lied us into an illegal war of aggression and ...
3. And violated Geneva conventions to make torture part of the intelligence toolbox. Here is what I opined then: "When Speaker Pelosi declared that the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was “off the table,” she not only abdicated her Constitutional..."
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Greg Sarafan, Esq
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BREAKING: Senate Dems file Freedom of Information Act request to force White House to turn over Kavanaugh documents. Senate Republicans have taken the position that the documents available now are enough even though Kavanaugh's time at the WH was extensive hill.cm/DVrTvoF
Kavanaugh's time at the White House might be the most important part of his career as he dealt with issues likely to come before the courts, including most presciently the limits of presidential power in relation to checks and balances and investigatory subservience to the DOJ.
The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment and Kavanaugh is a relatively young nominee, he will likely be on the Court for dacades and will have a profound effect on the direction of the court and on American jurisprudence for generations.
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Zarina Zabrisky
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⚡️💥🤑🚢🆘 #McConnell refused to bring the legislation to protect #Mueller to the Senate floor. A short thread on #MitchMcConnel and #ElaineChao's history of corruption. @WendySiegelman @grantstern @peterjukes @AHamiltonSpirit @dcpoll @lukeharding1968 cnn.com/2018/04/17/pol…
1. In Sep 2016, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, the CIA informed the Congress about Russian interference with the election. McConnell objected to declassifying the information & making it public, claiming bipartisanship issues.
politico.com/story/2018/01/…
2. On January 31, 2017, Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was sworn as a State Secretary of Transportation for Trump’s cabinet.
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