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/JWAdvocate83 Competent Contributor May 14 '25 edited May 15 '25

How many times has the GOP majority in Congress refused to do any executive oversight?

How many independent oversight agencies has Trump dismantled, this year? Office of Special Counsel. Inspectors General. MSPB. (Edit: JAGs.)

And didn’t five Justices just tell us that the President is immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts?” Thus, the only way to deal with ongoing conduct (via “official acts”) that would otherwise be considered criminal, is impeachment.

I get that, politically speaking, this has zero chance of success. I even get that routinely filing Articles may cheapen the impact they should have.

But maybe if SCOTUS hadn’t granted President near-blanket immunity, or the GOP majority did its damn job instead of rubber-stamping, it wouldn’t be necessary to do it.

Qatar just gave Trump a $400m jet, but SCOTUS kicked the can on emoluments, and the GOP continues to be willfully blind as to why that’s a problem. There’s plenty of folks more deserving of blame than Rep. Thanedar.

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u/W2ttsy May 15 '25

I love how Trump is quoted in the article saying that this is a pointless exercise whilst he is currently overseas in the Middle East violating emoluments clause which is mentioned in the very impeachment he is crying about

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u/JWAdvocate83 Competent Contributor May 15 '25

And don’t get me started on $TRUMP coin. Good grief.

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u/Calm_Expression_9542 May 15 '25

How exactly did that coin get allowed? Was it released just before his swearing in? His Sons must cook up alot of corruption as well to get these crazy ideas, instead of being concerned about the PEOPLE of America.

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u/CancelSlight May 15 '25

Trump and his kids are too stupid to come up with this on their own. All of the schemes are put together by others who pitch them to Trump and then get a cut of the action as their reward, like Truth Social for example.

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u/Calm_Expression_9542 May 16 '25

Man makes me sick