Braintree Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 He can be impeached right now for his conflicts of interests, against which there is a clearly-written safeguard in the constitution called the Emoluments Clause. Unfortunately, the republicans controlling congress want Trump's help dismantling financial reform, giving tax breaks to the rich, and reversing progress on fossil fuel dependence. Washington think tank the Brookings Institution put together this paper, THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE: ITS TEXT, MEANING, AND APPLICATION TO DONALD J. TRUMP. On page 22 they get to the interesting section "Remedies for Emolument Clause Violations." One such remedy: Second, if Mr. Trump enters office in what would obviously constitute a knowing and indeed intentional violation of the Emoluments Clause and then declines to cure that violation during his tenure, Congress would be well within its rights to impeach him for engaging in “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This would not require any evidence of provable bribes or other specific malfeasance, since the whole aim and theory of the Emoluments Clause is that the President (among others) is not lawfully permitted to order his private dealings with foreign powers such that they are vulnerable to systemic , invidious, undetectable corruption. So long as Mr. Trump persists in doing so, Congress would have a plainly valid basis under the Constitution for concluding he cannot serve in office -- both as a matter of first principles and given evidence that at least one prominent leader in the ratification process saw violations of this Clause as grounds for impeachment. He was actually sued recently using the emolument clause: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-is-the-emoluments-clause-does-it-apply-to-president-trump/2017/01/23/12aa7808-e185-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.c06aaab51d23 Hopefully it has an impact of some kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 b-b-b-but gummint caint fix nuthin Send some fucking textbooks and get all those schools reopened, you fucking horrendous shitheap of a man they're going to push for charter schools and private school vouchers so they can weaken the federal and state roles in public education. that way they can blame those entities when charter schools and vouchers fail to produce any improvements. textbooks and test standards are going to get uglier too, they are already having battles in Texas where former School Board members are getting their shitty book companies to get contracts over vendors with better books. this is me right now in a nutshell, i can't even listen to the news headlines without pulling my hair out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nebraska Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 https://youtu.be/oi_ySxbjrk8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 "My name is John Daker" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Spicer has a major issue with dippin dots. It consumes him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 "The Office" intro parody https://www.facebook.com/brandonsmith519/videos/10154301473997336/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) fuckin lol @ spicer's dippin dots fixation Edited January 25, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Dippin' Dots will have the last laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824227824903090176 he might want to start by arresting his daughter and advisor http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/steve-bannon-is-registered-to-vote-in-two-states.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Spicer has a major issue with dippin dots. It consumes him. This twitchy little fuck can't even use proper syntax half of the time. It feels some septic truck came to the White House last Friday and dumped the whole tank inside. Part of that "swamp-draining" campaign innit. I don't know where to begin to describe how much this manure mountain of an administration is pissing me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lane Visitor Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 they call me sean "dippin dots" spicer yall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I don't know where to begin to describe how much this manure mountain of an administration is pissing me off. You wouldn't believe what the love for the troll & chief is in my parts. Truly living in a "Simpsons" alternate reality. It's only been like 6 days & shit is reaching epic levels of face palm. I can only imagine after a month...a year...4 years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I like to get high and think about the fact that Trump has total access to WMDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) We aren't due to destroy the last of our chemical weapons till 2023 Edited January 25, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I don't know where to begin to describe how much this manure mountain of an administration is pissing me off. You wouldn't believe what the love for the troll & chief is in my parts. Truly living in a "Simpsons" alternate reality. It's only been like 6 days & shit is reaching epic levels of face palm. I can only imagine after a month...a year...4 years... I SAY LET THE BEARS PAY THE BEAR TAX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 We aren't due to destroy the last of our chemical weapons till 2023 To be fair that shit takes time, decades actually. I'm more afraid of his ignorance of nuclear detente - he thinks we should use them as a tactical option .___. Also the US nuclear strike force has had hiccups and near mishaps and needs reform...yet he just appointed a USAF chief with documented contact fraud with the government as a consultant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 2023 already cursed by Zahgurim who kills in an unnatural fashion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Senior Trump administration staffers, including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon, have active accounts on a Republican National Committee (RNC) email system, Newsweek has learned. The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails. wasn't using a private e-mail server supposedly the worst thing hillary EVER did? the interesting part is that, because breitbart and fox news aren't reporting it, no republican will care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Seems ol trumpy is using foreign aid to bully other nations. And that's how he's going to pay for the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) Newt not only was cheating on his wives, and had been for decades, he also used the exact same 'if she sucks me off it's not cheating' justification. Edited January 26, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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