#impeachment

[destielmemenews]

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[gay-david-tennant]

have a reverse Destiel confession meme ‘cause Dean just didn’t say enough to fit everything there (at least he gets to say ‘i love you’ this way)

[contemplatingoutlander]

"Here's what a functional democracy does after its president abuses his power and declares martial law: remove him from office."

--Steven Beschloss

"Protesters reacting as the vote to impeach the president was announced on Saturday."

Opposition lawmakers needed eight supporting votes from Mr. Yoon’s party to impeach him. When they called an impeachment vote last weekend, Mr. Yoon’s People Power Party boycotted it, saying that he should be given a chance to resign rather than be impeached. Only three of its 108 lawmakers participated. On Saturday, the party said that it officially opposed impeachment, but its lawmakers were allowed to cast their secret ballots. The result indicated that 12 lawmakers from Mr. Yoon’s party had joined the opposition to impeach him and another 11 abstained or cast invalid votes, sealing his fate. [emphasis added]

Why couldn't the Republicans in the U.S. Senate have voted to convict Trump in 2021 after he incited an insurrection and attempted to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power?

Once again, Republicans make America look bad in the eyes of the world.

_______________ Note. The video caption was added to the video to mimic the video on the front page of the digital New York Times on 12.14.24. The video was originally from Reuters.

[saywhat-politics]

House Republicans are targeting a growing cohort of federal judges with impeachment for issuing rulings unfavorable to the Trump administration.

Why it matters: It's a stark break with tradition as judges until now have been impeached mainly for gross personal misconduct, financial corruption or other serious criminal offenses.

Trump has fueled the effort by advocating judicial impeachments, though some GOP lawmakers have expressed pause.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts also pushed back Tuesday, saying in a rare statement: "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision."

"The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose," Roberts said.

By the numbers: House Republicans have introduced or threatened articles of impeachment against more than a half-dozen federal district court judges who ruled against Trump.

House Republican leaders have not ruled out holding impeachment votes, but with a two-seat majority and some Republicans uncomfortable with the idea, they could be a heavy lift.

[liberalsarecool]

The hypocrisy. The attack on the rule of law.

Republicans are malware. Weaponized inaction.

#ShamImpeachment #VoteBlue

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

Egged on by wannabe dictator Donald Trump, House Republicans are pushing GOP leadership to let them embark on impeachment proceedings against federal judges who dare to rule against their Dear Leader—a time-consuming and destined-to-fail effort that harms the rule of law and could even wound the Republican Party in elections moving forward. Multiple Republican lawmakers have filed articles of impeachment against four federal judges who recently ruled against the Trump administration. “Congress has the constitutional power to impeach rogue activist judges—and we intend to use it,” Republican Rep. Brendan Gill of Texas, who filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to turn around planes that were deporting alleged Venezuelan immigrants to a gulag in El Salvador, wrote in a post on X. House Republicans are pushing for the impeachments to move forward even as Politico reported that some GOP lawmakers view the effort to be “idiotic.” “You don’t impeach judges who make decisions you disagree with, because that happens all the time,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told Politico in early March. “What you do is you appeal, and if you’re right, then you’re going to win on appeal.” Even Chief Justice John Roberts warned that impeachment is not the way to handle disagreements with judicial decisions. “We are going to keep the impeachments coming,” Republican Rep. Andy Ogles Tennessee wrote in a post on X. Ogles himself filed articles of impeachment against a judge who ordered the Trump administration to restore websites it had taken down to comply with Trump's executive order targeting “gender ideology extremism.” But complicating things for Republican leadership is that Trump blessed the impeachment efforts on Tuesday, saying that the judge who tried to block his effort to deport immigrants without due process is a "Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama." “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote in a deranged Truth Social post. Co-President Elon Musk, who has threatened to fund primary challenges to Republicans who don’t do what Trump says, also wants judicial impeachments. “This is a judicial coup. We need 60 senators to impeach the judges and restore rule of the people,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Tuesday after another federal judge ruled against the Trump administration, this time on its attempted ban of transgender troops.

Co-Presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk (who incorrectly stated that 60 Senators are needed for impeachment conviction [67 are needed for conviction]), led by the right-wing media apparatus, have given an impetus for House Republicans to push for fruitless impeachments against judges who rule against Trump policies.

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[roselius]

MARCH 15th WE SHUT THEM DOWN.

KEEP FIGHTING.

KEEP PROTESTING.

KEEP BOYCOTTING.

BUT WE NEED TO BE LOUDER.

Let’s break down this capitalist system.

[lostinthewronguniverse]

Articles of Impeachment are now in the works against Trump! Call your representative (in the House of Representatives) especially if they are a Republican and tell them that Trump’s misuse of power is a breach of the constitution and the law. We must take every chance we can get

[without-ado]

Not Our President. Let's Impeach "Yoon" l 2024. 12. 7

art: olddog

[tomorrowusa]

A right wing president who was elected by a tiny margin and with less than 50% of the vote by appealing to resentful bros has been impeached.

No, not THAT president. It was Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea who finally got the boot after an unsuccessful attempt to impose authoritarian martial law.

South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades. In dramatic scenes at the national assembly in Seoul, 204 lawmakers voted for an opposition motion to impeach Yoon, while an estimated 200,000 protesters outside demanded he be thrown out of office. Saturday was the second opportunity in a week the assembly’s lawmakers had to begin the process of ousting Yoon, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 11%. To succeed, the opposition parties, which together control 192 seats, needed at least eight members of Yoon’s People Power party (PPP) to vote in favour to reach the required two-thirds majority of 200 in the 300-seat chamber. In the end, it appears that more PPP members were willing to throw their support behind impeachment. South Korean TV said 85 MPs voted against, while three ballots were spoilt and eight were ruled invalid. Huge cheers erupted outside the chamber as the results were announced, and MPs left to applause from onlookers. The spotlight will now move to the country’s constitutional court, whose six justices must vote unanimously in favour to uphold parliament’s decision. Yoon will now be suspended from office while the court deliberates, with the prime minister, Han Duck-soo, becoming interim president. The court has 180 days to rule on Yoon’s future. If it approves the motion, South Koreans must elect a new president within 60 days of its ruling.

The crowd near the South Korean National Assembly with an effigy of Yoon in jail.

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik signs the approved impeachment motion.

Overreach is a trait of rulers who overestimate the support they have as well as the extent of their power. It was well known in ancient times and appears in a number Shakespeare's plays. Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a classic instance of overreach. Overreach can seriously weaken or even topple those who do the reaching.

[titles-for-tangents]

In other good news I woke up to this morning

[saywhat-politics]

While he didn't mention Trump or the specific judge by name, Roberts rebuked Trump's call for impeaching members of the judiciary.

"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision," Roberts said in the statement. "The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."

[beauty-funny-trippy]

It looks like House Republicans are giving up on trying to impeach Joe Biden.

Republicans started this impeachment inquiry, not because they were aware of a crime, but because they were hoping, if they looked hard enough, maybe they would find one. They desperately wanted to find a crime not for the sake of justice, but rather, to satisfy some petty need for revenge.

It's been almost a year now of intensive investigations and they haven't found any evidence of any crimes. It turned out to be a huge waste of time and a huge waste of taxpayers' dollars. It's no surprise to anyone that this Republican controlled Congress is widely considered to be among the least productive in all of American history.

Instead of tackling important issues that could actually benefit the American people (healthcare, immigration reform, gun violence, poverty, etc), Republicans decided to work on salvaging their own political careers. They longed for the publicity they would receive if they actually found some wrongdoing by the president.

Hey Republicans, I heard a rumor that once, back in 1957, Biden tried to buy an ice cream cone with an expired coupon. You guys should look into that.

P.S. – have you checked to see if he has any overdue library books?