President Donald Trump's recent tweet quoting a longtime evangelical pastor who warned of a "Civil War" if Democrats seriously pursue removing him from office could actually be grounds for impeachment, one Harvard Law professor said.
"If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal," Trump tweeted on Sunday night.
The tweet was a quote from Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor who gave the comment during an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend. Trump added his own parenthetical aside to Jeffress' quote, in which the president asserted that Congress won't be successful in their impeachment efforts.
The president's tweet was immediately met with backlash, and Harvard Law professor John Coates argued that the social media post itself is an "independent basis" for lawmakers to remove him from the White House.
"This tweet is itself an independent basis for impeachment - a sitting president threatening civil war if Congress exercises its constitutionally authorized power," Coates wrote on Twitter on
“Trump, facing impeachment by the House over the Ukraine-Biden affair”
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See https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-durhams-ukrainian-leads-11569786611?mod=trending_now_3
“Nor does anything stop lawmakers from considering the word of an anonymous whistleblower that consists entirely of secondhand reports and conjecture not subject to easy refutation, save for occasional whoppers like the suggestion that placement of the Zelensky conversation on a closed system not vulnerable to penetration was somehow unlawful or evidence of a guilty conscience. The House and Senate, by design of the Founders, are unconstrained by any considerations save political ones. But as they labor, and occasionally preen in the limelight, Mr. Durham works quietly to determine whether highly specific criminal laws were violated, and if so by whom. He is an experienced and principled prosecutor who has earned the confidence of attorneys general of both parties, including me. Stay tuned. Mr. Mukasey served as U.S. attorney general (2007-09) and a U.S. district judge (1988-2006).”
See SCOTUS 18-9390 Appendix C US Federal Judge Sand March 6, 2009
“By order dated March 26, 2001, the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, former Chief Judge of this Court, dismissed plaintiff's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, determining that both the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the domestic relations exception to federal jurisdiction barred the Court from reviewing the state court's QDRO.”
Oh, thank you, the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey for your wise words. Amazing that I got such a big famous judge to rule on March 26, 2001. He writes often at the Wall Street Journal.
So, Judge Mukasey says that both the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the domestic relations exception to federal jurisdiction barred the Court from reviewing the state court's QDRO---let’s see what SCOTUS will rule. October 7, 2019 10:15 SCOTUS will release their rulings, my 18-9390 among them.
“Trump, facing impeachment...” Allow me to talk about role of women in sin. See https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23486
ReplyDelete“My Theory; Similarity of Sin of Baal-Peor and Sin of Golden Calf”
Women have a big role in sin.
“The man האדם said, The woman האשה You put at my side—she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12).
“But God said to Abraham, Do not be distressed over אל ירע בעיניך the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be continued [lit. called] for you. (Genesis 21:12)
“When this was over, the officers approached me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the land whose abhorrent practices כתועבתיהם are like those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. They have taken their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has become intermingled with the peoples of the land; and it is the officers and prefects who have taken the lead in this trespass.” (Ezra 9:1-2).
“The word which came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Noph, and in the land of Pathros” (Jeremiah 44:1).
“Thereupon they answered Jeremiah—all the men who knew that their wives made offerings to other gods; all the women present, a large gathering; and all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt: We will not listen to you in the matter about which you spoke to us in the name of the Lord. On the contrary, we will do everything that we have vowed [lit. “everything that has gone forth from our mouth.”]—to make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and to pour libations to her, as we used to do [cf. 7.18], we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty to eat, we were well-off, and suffered no misfortune. But ever since we stopped making offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pouring libations to her, we have lacked everything, and we have been consumed by the sword and by famine. And when we make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pour libations to her, is it without our husbands’ approval המבלעדי אנשים that we have made cakes in her likeness and poured libations to her.” (Jeremiah 44:15-19).
I love yesterday’s haftorah, we read:
“For the Lord will ransom פדה Jacob, Redeem him from one too strong for him.’ (Jeremiah 31:11). Hertz Chumash p.957: “hath ransomed. The prophetic perfect. from the hand, etc. This is proof that the redemption is the effect of Divine intervention.”
“I can hear Ephraim lamenting: You have chastised me, and I am chastised Like a calf that has not been broken. Receive me back, let me return, For You, O Lord, are my God. Now that I have turned back, I am filled with remorse; Now that I am made aware, I strike my thigh [i.e., as a gesture of self-reproach]. I am ashamed and humiliated, For I bear the disgrace of my youth. Truly, Ephraim is a dear son to Me, A child that is dandled! Whenever I have turned [lit. spoken] against him, My thoughts would dwell on him still. That is why My heart yearns for him; I will receive him back in love רחם ארחמנו —declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 31:18-20).
See, when God shows mercy to us, this means that God forgives us and will restore our fortunes. This is the third blessing in the grace after meals: “Have mercy, hashem, our God, on Israel Your people, on Jerusalem, Your city, on Zion, the resting place of Your Glory; on the monarchy of the house of David, Your anointed; and on the great and holy House upon which Your Name is called.”
Yes God will forgive us our trespasses. Why? Because we lament “You have chastised me, and I am chastised Like a calf that has not been broken. Receive me back, let me return, For You, O Lord, are my God. Now that I have turned back, I am filled with remorse.”