If Biden resigns or is impeached, would the consequences be too scary to contemplate???
Pelosi attempted twice to proceed with Impeachment against Trump. Biden won in, supposedly in the larges presidential win in U.S. history by numbers, swearing to unit Americans.
Well, he has united Americans in recent days against his Administrations and his policy disasters in Afghanistan, but also his inflation spike and other issue that bipartisan agree against.
But if he were to be impeached, as some threaten, what would be the consequences?
Scary.
First the Procedure:
Impeachment proceedings begin when the president is accused of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” (U.S. Constitution, Article II, section 4). The House of Representatives votes on articles of impeachment, or formal charges of misconduct. If approved by a majority of members, the president is impeached, though he or she remains in office. The next step in the impeachment process is a trial in the Senate. While there is debate over whether the Senate is constitutionally required to take up the matter, it has held trials in past cases. Selected members of the House act as prosecutors, the chief justice of the Supreme Court serves as judge, and the senators are the jurors. If at least two-thirds of the senators then present vote for conviction, the president is removed from office and replaced with the vice president. The decision of the Senate cannot be appealed to the federal courts. After leaving office, the former president may still be prosecuted for his or her alleged misconduct.
And who would be Vice President if Harris, in this instance becomes the President? Harris would be able to choose, although speculation is that Pelosi would be the choice. However, that the Speaker becomes VP is not automatic.
The first President to be impeached set the precedent.
President Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was impeached in 1868 for dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without the approval of the Senate as required in the Tenure of Office Act and for attacking congressional policies on the Reconstruction in the South. Congressional opposition to Johnson’s policies on the Reconstruction of the southern states had been building, however, since early in his term, and in 1867 the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives had conducted an investigation as a preliminary to impeaching Johnson. The attempt to impeach Johnson as a result of this investigation was unsuccessful. However, because the War Department was responsible for administering most of the policies on the Reconstruction that the Congress, overriding Johnson’s vetoes, had enacted into law, the removal of Secretary Stanton was viewed as an attack on these policies and was an additional motive for seeking Johnson’s ouster. The House of Representatives impeached Johnson on February 24, 1868, by a straight party line vote of 126 to 47. On February 27, the House of Representatives adopted eleven articles of impeachment that were then submitted to the Senate.
The Senate Trial
Johnson’s trial began with procedural motions on March 5, 1868, with the Chief Justice of the United States, Salmon P. Chase, presiding. The managers for the House of Representatives included John A. Bingham of Ohio, who served as chairman, Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, and Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania. Johnson’s defense team included former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtis; William Evarts, a prominent Republican lawyer; and Henry Stanbery, a former Attorney General in Johnson’s cabinet. Opening arguments and testimony in the trial began on March 30 and continued through April 20. On April 22 the summary phase of the trial began and was concluded on May 7. Issues in dispute during the trial included whether the Tenure of Office Act applied to Stanton, whether the Act, if it did apply, was constitutional, and whether Johnson committed an impeachable offense in attacking Congress for its policies on Reconstruction. The first vote, on article eleven which charged Johnson with bringing disrespect to Congress and its policies on Reconstruction, was held on May 16. The vote on the article was one vote short (35 to 19) of the two thirds majority needed for conviction. The trial was then recessed for ten days. On May 26 the Senate also failed by the same margin (35 to 19) to convict Johnson on articles two and three. At this point the Senate voted to adjourn the trial sine die without considering the remaining articles.
Background: Fed Up: Congresswoman Taylor Green, pro 2nd Amend, to file articles of Impeachment on Biden
“On January 21st, I’m filing Articles of Impeachment on President-elect @JoeBiden. 75 million Americans are fed up with inaction. It’s time to take a stand. I’m proud to be the voice of Republican voters who have been ignored.” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted.
She released the following statement on the Democrat threat of Impeachment:
“For the entire four years of the greatest Presidential term of our lifetime, Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi and radical Socialists in her party attempted coup after coup against President Donald Trump.
Whether it was threatening to remove the President with phony 25th Amendment attacks, ridiculous Russian collusion conspiracy theory lies, or false criminal accusations about a perfect phone call with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Democrats tried to overturn the 2016 election because they simply couldn’t handle the results.
Not only have the radicals in the Democrat Party tried to throw out the will of the American people, they have attacked anyone who dares support this President.
Everyone remembers the last four years of political censorship by the Silicon Valley Cartel targeting President Trump and his millions of supporters. Everyone remembers the occupation of the Senate office buildings by the Communist Women’s March screaming lies about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Everyone remembers the harassment of Republicans including Senator Rand Paul, who was surrounded by a violent Black Lives Matter mob in the streets of Washington, DC. And, of course, everyone remembers the entire year of domestic terrorism conducted by Antifa / BLM militants, and championed by Democrat elected officials.
Now, 12 days before the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, these same Democrats, following their marching orders from the activist spokesmen in the Fake News Media, are launching another lie-filled assault on our Republic by threatening to impeach our duly-elected President, yet again.
Speaker Pelosi’s pursuit of impeachment will not “heal and unite” this nation as Joe Biden has called for in speeches. Another coup attempt will only further inflame half of the country.
This Hail Mary attempt to remove President Trump is another attack on the Silent Majority that Democrats have always looked down upon.
I have a message for Democrats, including Joe Biden: the time of demeaning and destroying conservative Americans simply for their beliefs has come to an end.
The new generation of MAGA Republicans will not back down to your threats. We will not back down from the smear campaigns from the Enemy of the American People, the Fake News. And we will not be silenced by Big Tech who wants to end free speech.
We will stand up and defend the 75 Million Americans who you are trying to cancel and ruin the lives of for daring to reject your Marxist ideology.
President Trump taught us how to defend our values.
We aren’t going away. We will never give up.
On gun Rights:
| Last week, Congresswoman Marjorie Greene delivered on her campaign promises to be a leader in EXPANDING the rights of lawful American gun owners by signing on as an original cosponsor of Rep. Richard Hudson’s Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act H.R. 38 and Reps. Jeff Duncan and John Carter’s Hearing Protection Act H.R. 155. |
| The Conceal Carry Reciprocity Act would: Mandate states to recognize concealed carry permits from ALL other states.Ensure the right of law-abiding gun owners to travel freely in America without becoming a criminal.Eliminate the federal prohibition on possessing a firearm in “gun-free” school zones for lawful concealed carry holders.Clarify contradictory firearm carry regulations across state lines. |
| The Hearing Protection Act would: Allow gun owners to easily purchase suppressors to preserve their hearing by cutting government red tape and reducing compliance burdens. Protect the privacy of suppressor owners by requiring the Attorney General to destroy any list of purchases.Update the outdated federal transfer process to make it easier for suppressor manufacturers and gun owners to obtain safety equipment. |
| Congresswoman Greene announced her support of this powerful legislation to give rights back to lawful gun owners protected by the Second Amendment with the following statement:”Throughout my campaign for Congress, I promised the people of Northwest Georgia that I would be the strongest defender of gun rights on Capitol Hill. This legislation not only protects our God-given natural right to protect yourself and your family, it returns rights that federal and state governments have stripped away from law-abiding Americans. I’m a proud original cosponsor of this critical pro-gun legislation and will continue to deliver for the 14th District of Georgia, gun owners throughout America, and our Constitution.” |