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Mark Levin has spoken:

 

In their drive to impeach President Donald Trump, Democrats are throwing out all previous historical precedent and shutting the president and the American people out of it, says LevinTV host Mark Levin.

“This is the first time in American history that we have a rogue speaker of the House and a small-majority Democrat Party in the House of Representatives that’s trying to drag our country in a different direction,” Levin explained. “They have rejected, completely and utterly, the background of the impeachment process when it comes to presidents of the United States.”

In addition to failing to hold a full House vote on the matter, Levin explained, minority party members of investigating committees have not been given the same investigative powers as they were during previous impeachment efforts. These same process concerns were also laid out in a letter from the White House last week, explaining why the “Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate.”

To make his point, Levin referred to a House Judiciary Committee resolution from former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in October 1998, in which top committee Democrats were given those powers and the inquiry was authorized by a vote of the whole House before it began.

“That’s not happening today,” the host remarked. “The Democrats are the only ones who can issue subpoenas and call witnesses and cross-examine and all the rest of it.”

The 1998 document also explains that the committee found it necessary to have its investigation authorized by a House vote because “the issue of impeachment is of such overwhelming importance, the Committee decided that it must receive authorization from the full House before proceeding on any further course of action,” as well as the fact that the same historical precedent was set by the House’s impeachment efforts against Presidents Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon.

In contrast, Levin said, the current impeachment effort announced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has afforded none of the same due process.

“This isn’t the way America does things; this isn’t the way our Constitution’s intended to work,” Levin concluded. “The Democrat Party has hijacked the House of Representatives. It doesn’t speak for the full House, because the full House hasn’t spoken. The Democrat Party is pushing this impeachment. This is a Democrat Party impeachment, as I’ve been saying, a silent coup effort. This is why they dispense with all the traditions involving the last three presidents who went through this process.”

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2 hours ago, Little Earl said:

Mark Levin has spoken:

 

In their drive to impeach President Donald Trump, Democrats are throwing out all previous historical precedent and shutting the president and the American people out of it, says LevinTV host Mark Levin.

“This is the first time in American history that we have a rogue speaker of the House and a small-majority Democrat Party in the House of Representatives that’s trying to drag our country in a different direction,” Levin explained. “They have rejected, completely and utterly, the background of the impeachment process when it comes to presidents of the United States.”

In addition to failing to hold a full House vote on the matter, Levin explained, minority party members of investigating committees have not been given the same investigative powers as they were during previous impeachment efforts. These same process concerns were also laid out in a letter from the White House last week, explaining why the “Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate.”

To make his point, Levin referred to a House Judiciary Committee resolution from former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in October 1998, in which top committee Democrats were given those powers and the inquiry was authorized by a vote of the whole House before it began.

“That’s not happening today,” the host remarked. “The Democrats are the only ones who can issue subpoenas and call witnesses and cross-examine and all the rest of it.”

The 1998 document also explains that the committee found it necessary to have its investigation authorized by a House vote because “the issue of impeachment is of such overwhelming importance, the Committee decided that it must receive authorization from the full House before proceeding on any further course of action,” as well as the fact that the same historical precedent was set by the House’s impeachment efforts against Presidents Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon.

In contrast, Levin said, the current impeachment effort announced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has afforded none of the same due process.

“This isn’t the way America does things; this isn’t the way our Constitution’s intended to work,” Levin concluded. “The Democrat Party has hijacked the House of Representatives. It doesn’t speak for the full House, because the full House hasn’t spoken. The Democrat Party is pushing this impeachment. This is a Democrat Party impeachment, as I’ve been saying, a silent coup effort. This is why they dispense with all the traditions involving the last three presidents who went through this process.”

 

Why is it so hard for you to read? The Republicans changed the rules. There no longer has to be a formal vote for the House to subpoena an individual. This is not complicated. If the Republicans hadn’t of changed the rules then the Dems would have been forced to hold a formal vote, but now they don’t. 

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36 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

 

Why is it so hard for you to read? The Republicans changed the rules. There no longer has to be a formal vote for the House to subpoena an individual. This is not complicated. If the Republicans hadn’t of changed the rules then the Dems would have been forced to hold a formal vote, but now they don’t. 

I always find it hilarious when one party changes the rules to benefit themselves, then it comes back to bite them in the ass. Dems got a taste of that with Reid and his nuclear option for judges. 

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3 minutes ago, Omar said:

I always find it hilarious when one party changes the rules to benefit themselves, then it comes back to bite them in the ass. Dems got a taste of that with Reid and his nuclear option for judges. 

 

The president blatantly manufacturing a national emergency to appropriate funds and initiate unilateral executive action will bite the repubs in the ass with an activist liberal president.  The republican congress should have checked Trump on that one.

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52 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

 

Why is it so hard for you to read? The Republicans changed the rules. There no longer has to be a formal vote for the House to subpoena an individual. This is not complicated. If the Republicans hadn’t of changed the rules then the Dems would have been forced to hold a formal vote, but now they don’t. 

 

Doesn't matter what the official rules are.  We are talking about the President of the United States.  Democrats are wrong to play partisan politics and refuse to allow Republicans to issue subpoenas and call witnesses and cross-examine.   That is why Trump should and is telling the Democrats to go pound sand on their requests.

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35 minutes ago, Little Earl said:

 

Doesn't matter what the official rules are.  We are talking about the President of the United States.  Democrats are wrong to play partisan politics and refuse to allow Republicans to issue subpoenas and call witnesses and cross-examine.   That is why Trump should and is telling the Democrats to go pound sand on their requests.


Republicans control the Senate and the DOJ. They can do their own investigation of Biden if they choose to embarrass themselves...

 

As for Trump blocking witnesses, that just gives the Dems an easy argument for widening the impeachment inquiry. After all, adding more charges is a slam dunk now that he has handed them obstruction on a silver platter as well.

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7 minutes ago, Starkiller said:


Republicans control the Senate and the DOJ. They can do their own investigation of Biden if they choose to embarrass themselves...

 

As for Trump blocking witnesses, that just gives the Dems an easy argument for widening the impeachment inquiry. After all, adding more charges is a slam dunk now that he has handed them obstruction on a silver platter as well.

 

yep, slam dunk to get rejected by the Senate.

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