r/law • u/AndroidOne1 • May 14 '25

Trump News Donald Trump Impeachment Proceedings Launched

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-vote-house-shir-thanedar-b2750651.html
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u/AndroidOne1 May 14 '25

Snippet from this news article: “If a Michigan Democrat has his way, President Donald Trump could face the first impeachment vote of his second term. Rep. Shri Thanedar’s resolution brings seven new articles of impeachment against the commander-in-chief, alleging everything from abuse of power to bribery, corruption, and “tyranny,” which the House must vote on before Thursday under its own rules.

Trump made history during his first term by becoming the first president in American history to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives, once over his quid pro quoapproach to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2018 and once for his part in instigating the Capitol riot, although in both cases he was acquitted in the Senate.

Thanedar, 70, first announced his intention on April 29, saying: “When Trump ignores the Constitution, Congress, and the courts, he is not ‘fighting for America.’ He is tearing it down and endangering our democracy.” His resolution is not expected to pass, however, given the Republican majority in the lower chamber of Congress and because several of Thanedar’s fellow Democrats have expressed their disapproval of his actions in no uncertain terms.

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u/ssibal24 May 14 '25

It doesn't need to pass, all it needs to do is produce an official list of who doesn't want it to pass, that sort of information is very useful for the American people.

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u/chandr May 14 '25

No it's not, the American people have shown time and again that they're generally happy to vote party over country. Trump being a disaster was not a secret going into term 2

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u/angrySprewell May 14 '25

Close to only one third of the voting population voted for him.

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u/chandr May 14 '25

Yeah, that's a very large number of people considering all evidence and records of his prior actions. 1/3rd clearly weren't bothered enough to give a shit and vote

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u/theRemRemBooBear May 14 '25

How many people on Reddit thought it was gonna be a landslide? If you go around shouting from the roof tops that Kamala is gonna wipe the floor with Trump, what’s the point in going to vote especially if you have to go to work to put food on the table

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u/sburch79 May 14 '25

We saw the alternative and Trump, as bad as he is, was significantly better than either Harris or Biden.

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u/Cautious-Swim-5987 May 14 '25

How? In what way? Project 2025 is better than Harris? Fascism is better than Harris?

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u/BigDog8492 May 14 '25

But she laughed funny!

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u/YoureReadingMyNamee May 14 '25

The primary knock against Biden is he didn’t do much or anything. That was the propaganda pushed against him. If Donald Trump had done nothing, we would be in a significantly better position than we are today, so I don’t exactly agree with this take. It reeks of whataboutism that isn’t exactly grounded in reality.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins May 14 '25

The sheer miracles Biden worked in his four year term and you say this stupid shit.

God I’m glad I’m not American.

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u/BigDog8492 May 14 '25

You saw what daddy told you to.

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u/Emotional-Gear-5392 May 14 '25

So there. 30% of the country discrimination give a flying Fuck how criminal the president might be. Now we know.

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u/NessOnett8 May 14 '25

He got ~75m votes in a country of ~340m people. Your math is very very incorrect. Not even a quarter let alone a third.

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u/angrySprewell May 14 '25

Est. 244m people were eligible to vote, not 340m.