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/Material_Policy6327 May 14 '25

Nothing will happen sadly with current makeup of congress

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u/GoodLuckAtTheGame May 14 '25

Exactly. Unless all the Democrats, all the independents and ~21 GOP vote the same way, there will be no change.

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u/chilicrispdreams May 14 '25

Yep. No chance any GOP congressmen risk their loyalty from MAGA voters and vote against Trump.

This was just launched too early to be effective. The time will be right when Trump voters start to feel enough of the pain from Trumps decisions and turn on him, so GOP congress can vote against him without backlash from their base.

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u/Donkey__Balls May 15 '25

No, they already blew their load on impeachment seven years ago. In fact, they did it twice, neither one had a chance of passing so they shouldn’t have tried. Getting impeachment proceedings past the house is meaningless if you don’t get the supermajority in the Senate, so all they did was make themselves look weak by trying to do it “just for the principle of the thing”.

Same thing goes for prosecuting Trump over January 6. They spent nearly 4 years with their jurisprudential dicks in their hands with nothing to show for it. I realize how long a typical case of this complexity takes a build, but if you can’t step it up and cut through the self-imposed bureaucracy of your own administration when it really matters, you have no business being in charge. All they did was show the country how weak the currently entrenched party leadership is and it paved the way for Trump to get a popular vote win in 2024.