Should Democratic Senators Sanders, Booker, Warren and Klobuchar all recuse themselves from voting in the senate impeachment trial since they are running for president against Trump?
Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 4 months ago to Ask the Gulch
Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed Thursday following the impeachment vote the night before that she would not send over the articles of impeachment until she was sure there would be a “fair trial” — which, to her, means Democrats would get to run the trial, call the witnesses, and break as many rules in the upper chamber as they did in the lower chamber during the impeachment inquiry.
What’s more, Democrats are already demanding that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recuse himself from any proceedings because they claim he’s ‘biased’.
Using that rationale, Democratic senators who either were running, or are continuing to campaign for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination so they can face Trump next November, to participate in the trial is even more "biased." They have a vested interest in Trump's conviction; they can not be impartial.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California has dropped out of the 2020 race but as a former candidate, does anyone believe she will be impartial?
How about Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota?
They’re all still vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. How in the world are they going to be impartial when they’re trying to take President Trump’s place in the White House next year?
There is no way they can be impartial, of course. But as usual, Democrats seek to hold themselves and Republicans to different standards.
What’s more, Democrats are already demanding that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recuse himself from any proceedings because they claim he’s ‘biased’.
Using that rationale, Democratic senators who either were running, or are continuing to campaign for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination so they can face Trump next November, to participate in the trial is even more "biased." They have a vested interest in Trump's conviction; they can not be impartial.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California has dropped out of the 2020 race but as a former candidate, does anyone believe she will be impartial?
How about Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota?
They’re all still vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. How in the world are they going to be impartial when they’re trying to take President Trump’s place in the White House next year?
There is no way they can be impartial, of course. But as usual, Democrats seek to hold themselves and Republicans to different standards.
Will they? No!
They did their polling to figure out what "the people" thought Trump should be impeached for - so they are obviously concerned with making their voting base happy in what they did. So it is politically motivated for personal gain that they did this - right?
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They're a complete joke.
I see so many brilliant ideas come up in the Gulch regarding this topic it makes me wonder why the Republicans can't come up with this stuff themselves and then apply it. It seems the folks here are just plain smarter than the average politician.
The reason Piglosi is delaying the filing b/c apparently she wants to establish leverage in the Senate, or so she thinks.
McConnell doubled down and asked "what leverage" Piglosi has in mind for something the Senate doesn't want?
It is a manifestation of the mind (if they have one) of a lefty. Do they know what leverage means?
She wants to extend the life of the circus that no sane person wants to see any more.
Interesting that Nancy is sitting on the Articles.....she may do so until late in the election as an "October Surprise", If she does....I think it will redound to Trump as it would prove even more [If that is possible] that the whole process was fake and contrived.
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I was just writing for the new book on this matters and these post modern times. Here it is in essence: "When one subscribes not to a common moral code, one can do no moral wrong".
The point about political bias, not just for those running for president, makes sense to me. I am not clear on the point of an impeachment process run by politicians. President Trump openly talks about it as a test of his popularity. The Democrats don’t offer reassurances that they’ll stick to the facts.