This high tech Lynching will Fail

Impeachment is a proceeding so disproportionate to the petty offense they have accused the President of that the Democrats are beginning to look ridiculous…  

These impeachment hearings are intended primarily to harm Trump’s reelection chances because they know damned well the President has not done anything serious enough for a Republican controlled Senate to remove him from office. Because of the blatantly unfair way they are handling these hearings, it may very have the opposite effect and guarantee his reelection.

Republicans are clearly justified in their attack on this whole process because it is fundamentally unfair. It violates the most basic tenets of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence:

1                 1     Accusations must be specific and backed by clear evidence;

2        All evidence and accusations must be presented in open court;

3        Rules of procedure must be fixed and unbiased, not arbitrary and ad hoc;

4        The accused is presumed innocent and must be given full rights to see all the evidence, confront the accusers, and rebut all charges, including cross-examining witnesses, challenging documents, and presenting exculpatory evidence.

 

1      To date, none of these rules has applied to this impeachment inquiry. Although impeachment is a political act rather than a judicial act, it is still governed by the constitutional requirement limiting it to “high crimes and misdemeanors,” such as treason and bribery. 

The Framers specifically rejected a proposal to include “malfeasance in office,” fearing it would open the process to vague charges and transform our system of divided powers into a unified parliamentary system, controlled by Congress.

President Obama created a great divide in America,  and this out of control House of Representatives is widening that divide to the point that it may never be the same again...