the two steps in taking a high government official, such as a president or a judge, from his position. The first step, impeachment, is a formal accusation by a simple majority of the House of Representatives. This vote leaves the accused in office, while he is “tried” by the Senate. A two-thirds majority vote in the Senate is necessary in order to remove someone from office. In all of American history, “Two Presidents, one Senator, one cabinet officer, and fifteen judges have been impeached, and of those only eight judges have been convicted and removed from office.” The House has “sole power of impeachment.” The House votes on articles of impeachment for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” If that passes by a simple majority, the President is not yet removed from office, until (and unless) the next step is completed. The impeachment case is sent to the US Senate for trial, over which the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS presides. If the Senate votes by a two-thirds majority to convict, then the person will be removed from office. (Conservapedia)
Impeachment and Removal
The US military has no role in resolving election disputes, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told congressional Democrats, pouring cold water on hopes the Pentagon would help them take the White House. “I believe deeply in the principle of an apolitical US military,” Milley said in a letter to Representatives Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) and Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey). The two members of ...
Former California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has denied that he acted on orders from President Donald Trump to offer Julian Assange a deal for a pardon, saying that he never spoke to the president about the offer. The Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, and other mainstream outlets all ran sensational headlines claiming Trump was directly involved, despite some of the reports acknowledging Rohrabacher’s denial. Rohrabacher’s claim calls into question ...
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified about President Trump’s Ukraine dealings during the House impeachment hearings, said Friday he had been recalled from his overseas position, hours after a National Security Council aide who testified against the president was also fired. “I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States ambassador to the European Union," Sondland said ...
The Senate voted to acquit President Donald John Trump on the first of two articles of impeachment. The vote was 52-48 for acquittal on the first article, for “abuse of power,” with only Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), crossing party lines. Romney made history by becoming the first US Senator to vote to convict a president of his own party. The vote was 53-47 for acquittal on the ...
Before the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump was gaveled into session, Chief Justice John Roberts presided over a swearing-in ceremony where all 100 senators pledged to be impartial jurors. The liberal media zeroed in on that pledge and decried Senate Republicans who seemed to be siding with the President. But a Media Research Center study of broadcast evening news coverage of the opening ...
After White House lawyers' brief rebuttal (less than 3 hours) managed to tear apart Rep. Schiff and the House Managers' 20-plus-hour 'odyssey' in the Senate impeachment trial, is anyone surprised that - right at the last minute - a 'bombshell' is leaked to the media that promises - as always - "this time we got him." This time, The New York Times reports that President Trump's former national security adviser ...
Headlines Jan 21, 2020 Mitch McConnell Drafts ‘Kill Switch’ Resolution To Halt Trump Trial If Democrats Try To Drag it Out Desperate Pencil Neck Tries to Run Senate Trial; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued on Tuesday that a refusal by the Senate to agree to Democrats’ demand to allow new witnesses and evidence in the impeachment trial without a vote would deem President ...
Democrat Adam Schiff leaked sensitive and classified House Committee materials in his obsession to politically damage President Trump. In an exclusive report, The Gateway Pundit provides the evidence below. On July 12, 2018, Democrat Representative Adam Schiff sent John Szobocsan a letter on official letterhead requesting that Mr. Szobocsan participate in an interview in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI): Mr. Szobocsan ...
In the first 100 days since House Democrats began their impeachment push on September 24, ABC, CBS and NBC have aggressively aided the effort. A Media Research Center analysis finds the Big Three evening newscasts have battered the President with 93% negative coverage and promoted impeachment at the expense of nearly all other Trump news. At the same time, the broadcast networks donated at least 124 ...
Democrats released ‘notes’ by Lev Parnas in which he claims Rudy Giuliani ordered him to to call President Zelensky of Ukraine and tell him aid would not be forthcoming if he didn’t agree to investigate the Bidens. This Lev Parnas news was already reported in The New York Times two months prior, and Rush Limbaugh called it — Predicting in November that Democrats would come back and use Lev Parnas ...