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 | | Subject: --- The Republicans Changed The Rules -- Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:53 pm | |
| Fox & Friends hosts deflated after legal analyst shoots down latest GOP impeachment talking point
The hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Thursday appeared disappointed when legal analyst Andrew Napolitano gave them unfortunate news about the White House’s latest objections to House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
Specifically, Napolitano addressed the letter sent to Congress by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, which claimed that the executive branch did not have to comply with any subpoenas of documents until the House formally voted to open an impeachment inquiry.
“The Republicans changed the rules when John Boehner was the Speaker of the House allowing each individual committee to issue subpoenas without a House-wide vote,”
“So those subpoenas are valid, and those people who resist them, ignore them, who put them in a drawer, do so at your peril.”
Napolitano went on to explain that there are legal avenues the White House could take to avoid complying with subpoenas, but he said that they have so far chosen not to take them.
“If you get a subpoena that asks you for something that you don’t think you have to produce, you have to challenge the subpoena,” he said. “You can’t ignore it.”
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| | Subject: Re: --- The Republicans Changed The Rules -- Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:30 pm | |
| And Grack--make note of that .. |
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| | Subject: Re: --- The Republicans Changed The Rules -- Sat Oct 19, 2019 7:16 am | |
| They can issue all the subpoenas they want, the entire proceeding is unconstitutional and therefore can be ignored. |
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| | Subject: Re: --- The Republicans Changed The Rules -- Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:05 pm | |
| - turd_ferguson wrote:
- They can issue all the subpoenas they want, the entire proceeding is unconstitutional and therefore can be ignored.
What counts as an “official impeachment inquiry, and what is required to move forward with one?
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to Pelosi asking her to “suspend” the impeachment inquiry until “transparent and equitable rules and procedures” could be put in place and a floor vote authorizing an impeachment inquiry could be taken.
Pelosi responded that no vote was necessary.
Now White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has written to Pelosi informing her that the administration will not cooperate with the House’s “constitutionally invalid” impeachment inquiry, in part because the House had not voted “to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step” or provided the president with “due process protections.”
Is it constitutionally acceptable for the House speaker to initiate an impeachment “by means of nothing more than a press conference”?
In short, yes.
The Constitution says that the House has the sole power of impeachment.
Ultimately, if the House wants to impeach someone, it needs to muster a simple majority in support of articles of impeachment that can be presented to the Senate.
How the House gets there is entirely up to the chamber itself to determine.
There is no constitutional requirement that the House take two successful votes on impeachment, one to authorize some kind of inquiry and one to ratify whatever emerges from that inquiry.
An impeachment inquiry is not “invalid” because there has been no vote to formally launch it, and any eventual impeachment would not be “invalid” because the process that led to it did not feature a floor vote authorizing a specific inquiry. |
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