I get a little picky about this whole due process thing, not just because I’m a lawyer and not just because I helped defend our Constitution overseas in uniform a couple times, but because I’m an American citizen. Let’s understand clearly the nature of the due process argument over impeachment. This is not about Donald Trump getting due process. This is about the American people getting due process.
It’s our choice for president that is being challenged. You get due process under our glorious Constitution when you are about to have your individual rights infringed – like having your freedom or money taken. President Trump has no individual right to be president. It’s a position that we citizens gave him in order to work for us. The presidency is not his, any more than being a colonel meant the eagle belonged to me. The real due process rights at issue here belong to us, America’s citizens, who are faced with the prospect of having our right to choose our president infringed upon.
In other words, when no one is allowed to put on a defense to the impeachment inquisition, it’s not Trump who is being deprived of his due process rights. It’s the American people who are being deprived of their due process rights.
Due process means a chance to have your say, to tell your side of the story. We all used to accept that everyone has a right to make their case. Now, sometimes that may be hard – if the Five-O catches an axe murderer with a dripping hatchet and a tatt on his forehead that says “I (heart emoji) Mayhem” and he just starred in a YouTube video titled, “I Just Went On An Axe Murder Frenzy” he’s probably going to have an uphill battle to acquittal. But it would never occur to us not to tell him the charges, and to let his lawyer ask questions and call witnesses in front of an impartial judge and jury. Due process is not about a result but about giving everyone a chance to tell his side of the story.
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(3) Warning to the Media: The Great Silent Majority is Still Here
(4) McConnell On Dismissal Of Trump Impeachment Articles: ‘We’ll Have To Have A Trial’
What a farcical process. Why is anybody even watching? I can stomach it for about 5 minutes (or less). A parade of pompous jackasses who mistakenly believe that it is they not the POTUS who formulate and implement foreign policy. I rarely feel this way especially at my age but man oh man Adam Schiff’s face is begging for a knuckle sandwich. Somebody somewhere recently suggested decorating the entire capital building to look like a circus tent for the duration. Perfect. If come November the American people don’t pass judgement on this seditious cabal and crush the Democrat Party into dust then it will no longer ever be God Bless America again. It will be God help America.
Ah yes, where is Lindsey Graham? Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. A powerful position. He can make things happen in a big way, if he wants to. He’s done SFA to date but talk. It’s high time Hannity called him out instead of giving him a pulpit near nightly to spew his uncontested BS to the American public. To fill patriots with false hope. To promise that he’s gonna ensure that the law will prevail over the lawless. That right will prevail over wrong. He’s going to do this. He’s going to do that. He’s going to subpoena this person he’s going to subpoena that person. He’s going to hold people accountable. I’m sick and tired of his all hat and no cattle. Lindsey… either shit or get off the pot. Time’s up.