Sen. Joe Manchin (D) called for a censure vote.
What's that?
Something I wrote about in a thread and blog post. Here's the thread:
(When I predicted that a censure was on the horizon, I didn't imagine it would happen within a few days.)
What's that?
Something I wrote about in a thread and blog post. Here's the thread:
(When I predicted that a censure was on the horizon, I didn't imagine it would happen within a few days.)
More here: washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-m…
Screenshot for people who can't access it.
I didn't expect this to happen in the Senate because I didn't think a majority of Senators would go for it. (I assumed it would come later from the House).
I assume . . .
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Screenshot for people who can't access it.
I didn't expect this to happen in the Senate because I didn't think a majority of Senators would go for it. (I assumed it would come later from the House).
I assume . . .
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. . . that Manchin would not raise this if he didn't think he could get the votes.
Raising this and having it shot down would, er, not be good.
If they couldn't get the votes to allow witnesses, it didn't occur to me that they could get the votes for a censure.
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Raising this and having it shot down would, er, not be good.
If they couldn't get the votes to allow witnesses, it didn't occur to me that they could get the votes for a censure.
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A censure is accurately described by the Post as a "less severe rebuke than removal."
But it's still a rebuke. Trump would not be able to say his call was perfect, he did nothing wrong, and he's completely exonerated.
I'm in favor 🙋♀️
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But it's still a rebuke. Trump would not be able to say his call was perfect, he did nothing wrong, and he's completely exonerated.
I'm in favor 🙋♀️
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Trump's hero Andrew Jackson is now the only president in US history to have been censured.
(Jackson's allies ended up getting the censure expunged from the record when the Democrats regained the Senate. Trump won't get that because his party now controls the Senate.)
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(Jackson's allies ended up getting the censure expunged from the record when the Democrats regained the Senate. Trump won't get that because his party now controls the Senate.)
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It definitely doesn't get them off the hook for refusing to hear witnesses and testimony.
Censuring Trump without all the evidence does not mean that the Senate didn't engage in a coverup.
It also depends on how the censure is worded.
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Censuring Trump without all the evidence does not mean that the Senate didn't engage in a coverup.
It also depends on how the censure is worded.
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Me, too.
A lot depends on the wording.
The majority of the Senate in Andrew Jackson's case was angry with him, so the censure was sharply worded.
Do the @SenateGOP have the courage to do that?
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A lot depends on the wording.
The majority of the Senate in Andrew Jackson's case was angry with him, so the censure was sharply worded.
Do the @SenateGOP have the courage to do that?
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