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"People discuss the impeachment trial as a matter of law, but it's really a matter of power. It's a loyalty test for Republicans. It's a test of whether they'll openly declare fealty to a criminal syndicate." -- @gaslitnation

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"There is no presentation of evidence that will sway the GOP. We know this because Trump has openly committed and confessed to crimes. He gets out of crimes by declaring them not to be crimes, not by actually proving his innocence." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/voldemor…
"Americans have lost a lot due to officials' unwarranted faith in rotting institutions: savior syndrome, as they waited for Mueller; and normalcy bias, as they assumed that if the situation were really so dangerous, someone would stop it." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/voldemor…
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"It's not just about the Republican coalition of corruption getting away with crimes. It's about them getting away with crimes so they can go on to commit more crimes." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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"The coalition of corruption needs Paul Manafort pardoned and freed so that he can continue commiting crimes. Putin needs his operative back. The GOP needs to consolidate their power and continue stealing elections." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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"The reason I keep bringing up Manafort is because Giuliani sucks at his job! Lev and Igor got caught; these guys are amateurs. Manafort is probably watching this from prison going insane." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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Sarah Kendzior
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"Trump got impeached for trying to do in 2020 what he got away with doing in 2016, which is getting foreign help to steal an election. The quid pro quo was in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Kremlin operatives." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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"Trump got caught red-handed and tried to force *another* quid pro quo with Ukraine in 2019. We've been living with a constitutional crisis since 2016 because Trump stole an election and everyone let it go through." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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"There's a horrible default in how US institutions operate. By striving to be so above board, institutionalists basically carried on this constitutional crisis instead of actually confronting it." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation
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Sarah Kendzior
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"Adam Schiff is doing a fantastic job. He also gave a fantastic speech on March 28, 2019 -- an urgent plea for accountability in which he detailed Trump's crimes. The mystery is why that urgency disappeared from April until September." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/voldemor…
"Trump has spent his tenure threatening members of Congress. AOC and Ilhan Omar had to get security. Elijah Cummings' home was broken into right after a Trump threat, and his family said Trump's threats contributed to his poor health." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/voldemor…
"Schiff said that he considered Trump's tweet about him to be a threat -- and he's right. Yet no one is acting to protect him, just as no one acted to protect the others. Days later, a POTUS threatening a congressman is barely discussed." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/voldemor…
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Brandi Buchman
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Good morning from Washington.
Let us start today by addressing a distortion offered by POTUS this a.m.: The House *did* ask Bolton to testify and provide docs but Boltons lawyer said any subpoena rec'd would be challenged in court.
So instead of holding up the impeachment trial...
The House Dems decided against issuing the subpoena at that time.
Trump seems to falsely suggest that the Senate cannot subpoena witness testimony.
They can and could. The question is will they?
Here is what could happen.
WH defense team must conclude their opening arguments first. Then, we enter an up to 16hr round for senator questions to be submitted in writing. Then, sens. debate for 4 hours on whether to subpoena witnesses and/or records.
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Brandi Buchman
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At the moment, I am perched high above the House floor where a small group of spectators have already taken their seats to watch today's vote to formally transmit the articles of #impeachment from the House to the Senate.
I'll have the coverage for @CourthouseNews. Stay tuned!
@CourthouseNews Lawmakers are trickling into the chamber and I spy with my little eye, a group of newly-minted impeachment managers: Schiff, Jeffries, Demings....
@CourthouseNews Speaker Pelosi, donning a bright coral-hued ensemble, has entered the chamber & is seated next to Schiff. A friendly convo appears to be unfolding between the Speaker, Schiff, Demings and I believe that is Sylvia Garcia (her face is turned away, I can't get a great look at her)
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Mormon Women
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As voters, we must demand the highest standards from the leaders who we ourselves helped elect. We must take back the power of our individual voices.

bit.ly/39ZCts8

#impeachment #impeachmenttrial #MWEG #fullandfair #fullandfairtrial #beawitness #countryoverparty
We are Republicans. We are Democrats. We are Independents and the unaffiliated. Our combined voices represent the majority of American voters, and we are frustrated by politicians who weaponize our two-party system as a means to consolidate and maintain political power.
Hyperpartisanship makes enemies of fellow citizens and insulates leaders from the natural and legal consequences of their actions. When this happens, we all lose. bit.ly/2s9n1Zo
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JMHendersonSr❌
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@SenateRules: Anticipating the House adopting Articles of Impeachment, why shouldn't the Senate, by amendment of its Rules if necessary, entertain a motion to dismiss the Articles?

After all, Rule 12 of the Fed.R.Crim.P. permits a motion to dismiss an indictment.
Much ballyhooing has been made of the unseemly nature of the conduct of the House's proceedings: the bias of the Intel Cmte Chair, his obvious need to testify as to material facts, abandonment of established practices, etc.
Why should the time of the Senate be occupied in the conduct of the trial of so suspect origins and purposes?

True enough, grand jury proceedings are secret. That character of them, of course, is why @DNC apologists are analogizing the present proceedings to such.
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Adam A. Fernandez
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A short thread on #impeachment.

I have pre-existing conditions—I fear my life & that of my friends being taken away.
I have close friends with DACA—I fear their right to be here being taken away.
I'm a Latino parent—I fear my child will be discriminated against worse than I was
I'm the survivor of an in-person death threat against me & my family, from a MAGA extremist who hated me just for who I am—I fear him or another carrying out those threats.

I'm an attorney—I fear the erosion of the rule of law.
I'm a patriot—I fear Russian interference in the 2020 election.

I'm a voting rights advocate—I fear a system is currently being created that will lead to permanent minority rule, & that that minority will use political power to permanently restricts the rights of the majority.
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Oeishik M.G. C. JD
@TributeProjects
A note on #impeachment -

In a court of law, under non-presidential circumstances, impeachment is a tool litigation attorneys use to discredit the opposing side's witnesses at trial. When said witness takes the stand under oath attys. present evidence contrary to what the witness
claims. This weakens the other side's case by discrediting impeached witnesses's testimony. Once a witness has been impeached - by presentment of inconsistent testimony - the judge/jury can no longer use the impeached witnesses's testimony in reaching a verdict.
Simply put, they aren't trustworthy. In the case of Presidential impeachment that broad definition of impeachment applies, but the impeachment tool is used for a very different purpose. Under the Constitution, a sitting President cannot be tried in a court of law for anything.
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