Roberts may also make a mess in the Senate impeachment trial

Henceforth, every President-elect can be impeached at the whim of the House, even before he takes office. The VP-elect can be similarly impeached. Since any accusation will do, this could mean that no President ever takes office.

The Dems are very scared and irrational, and they seem to expect that Republicans who control the House will be better behaved. But that is like expecting that your enemy will be ‘nice’.

I was sitting in the waiting room of a VA hospital yesterday waiting for a relative and had an opportunity watch nearly all the sis hour presentation by the Commiecrats of their Articles of Impeachment.” It was the most pathetic demonstration of absolute ignorance and disregard of the law and due process imaginable. Then I recalled most of these Commiecrats had been government lawyers in their earlier careers, many like Schiff prosecutors,and it flashed through my mind that if they think they can do this to the President then they have already done the same to many of us lesser folks many times over. Thee hubris and lawlessness did not germinate overnight.It was many years in the development.

House Democrats violated the Bill of Rights in pursuing their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Republicans have pointed out that Democrats’ articles of impeachment, especially the second article charging “obstruction of Congress,” punish the president for obeying the Constitution’s checks-and-balances.

Yet Democrats have also violated the basic liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, in the following four ways:

First Amendment: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), which led the impeachment inquiry, released a 300-page report in which he printed phone logs purportedly belonging to Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA), presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and journalist John Solomon. Schiff has never made clear what authority granted him the power to snoop on a journalist (among others) — a violation of freedom of the press.

Fourth Amendment: Schiff’s snooping on phone logs violated the protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” As the Wall Street Journal‘s Kim Strassel has noted, “Federal law bars phone carriers from handing over records without an individual’s agreement.” There are exceptions for legitimate law enforcement investigations, but there is no exception for lawmakers, and Schiff’s inquiry had no law enforcement purpose; no crime was alleged.

Fifth Amendment: President Trump was denied the due process rights guaranteed to his predecessors in prior impeachment inquiries. Unlike Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, for example, he was denied legal representation in the fact-finding stage of the inquiry. He was also told at the outset that any effort to invoke constitutional rights or privileges would itself be considered further evidence of an impeachable offense.

Sixth Amendment: Democrats violated the president’s right to counsel when they snooped on Giuliani’s phone records, even making a public record of his conversations with the White House, potentially violating attorney-client privilege. Moreover, by refusing to allow the so-called “whistleblower” to testify — and silencing questions about the “whistleblower” — Democrats denied Trump the right to confront his accuser before being impeached.

These are very dangerous people and need to be removed from public life. Not just votes out office but prosecuted under federal statutes that provide long sentences for those who knowingly and purposely violate one’s civil rights under the Constitution. This is the case that Trump must make and when he wins reelection prosecute the entire cell of Marxist Commiecrats that have seized control of the once Democratic Party.