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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
there's the backstop of impeachment, but then if you can't successfully impeach a guy who just literally led a violent mob to disrupt a joint session of both houses, idk man
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Michael M
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The failure of which started with Pickering, continued with Johnson, and now effectively ended with Trump.
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Pooh
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Plus, imagine if the officials were afraid not just for their careers but for the lives of their family and friends if they voted to impeach? Oh wait, that was already true last time
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Andy Craig
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Even aside from how it's politically a high hurdle and vanishingly unlikely to get to two-thirds for conviction, the impeachment power is meaningless if the literal physical ability of Congress to meet and conduct business has no protection from a president determined to forcibly violate it.
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@rst.bsky.social
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... which impeachment McConnell refused to support because he insisted Trump could be held criminally accountable.
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