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National Review ^ | October 5, 2019 | Andrew C. McCarthy
It is not for the Speaker and her adjutants to decree that there is an inquiry.
‘The House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”
It’s right there in black-and-white: In article I, section 2, clause 5, our Constitution vests the entirety of the power to call for removal of the president of the United States in a single body — the House.
Not in the Speaker of the House. In the House of Representatives. The institution, not one of its members.
To be sure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a very powerful government official: second in the line of succession to the presidency; arguably, the most powerful member of Congress. She wields decisive influence on the business of her chamber. She even has the power to induce the House to vote on whether to conduct an impeachment inquiry.
But she does not have the power to impeach on her own.
In the end, Speaker Pelosi is just one member, a representative elected biannually by one district (in her case, the 12th district of California, centered in San Francisco and not particularly representative of the nation at large). Sure, she enjoys primus inter pares status because she is chosen by a majority of the House’s 435 members. But like each of those other members, her vote counts as just one — in a body that generally requires 218 votes to get the important things done.
She is the Speaker. She is not the House. She does not have the authority to call for the president’s removal. She can argue for it, like the other members. She can vote on it, like the other members. But she cannot do it by herself. Only the House, acting as an institution, can do that.
The House acts by voting. It has never voted to conduct an inquiry into whether President Trump should be impeached. Consequently, there is no House impeachment inquiry. There is a partisan exhibition of synchronized dyspepsia.
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The DemonRATs will NOT hold a vote and this is nothing more than an ongoing Coup attempt.
What I fail to understand is why and how those individuals who have plotted and are carrying out this subversive activity are still being allowed to suck air.....Perhaps Trump has better plans for them for the upcoming election?
National Review ^ | October 5, 2019 | Andrew C. McCarthy
It is not for the Speaker and her adjutants to decree that there is an inquiry.
‘The House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”
It’s right there in black-and-white: In article I, section 2, clause 5, our Constitution vests the entirety of the power to call for removal of the president of the United States in a single body — the House.
Not in the Speaker of the House. In the House of Representatives. The institution, not one of its members.
To be sure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a very powerful government official: second in the line of succession to the presidency; arguably, the most powerful member of Congress. She wields decisive influence on the business of her chamber. She even has the power to induce the House to vote on whether to conduct an impeachment inquiry.
But she does not have the power to impeach on her own.
In the end, Speaker Pelosi is just one member, a representative elected biannually by one district (in her case, the 12th district of California, centered in San Francisco and not particularly representative of the nation at large). Sure, she enjoys primus inter pares status because she is chosen by a majority of the House’s 435 members. But like each of those other members, her vote counts as just one — in a body that generally requires 218 votes to get the important things done.
She is the Speaker. She is not the House. She does not have the authority to call for the president’s removal. She can argue for it, like the other members. She can vote on it, like the other members. But she cannot do it by herself. Only the House, acting as an institution, can do that.
The House acts by voting. It has never voted to conduct an inquiry into whether President Trump should be impeached. Consequently, there is no House impeachment inquiry. There is a partisan exhibition of synchronized dyspepsia.
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The DemonRATs will NOT hold a vote and this is nothing more than an ongoing Coup attempt.
What I fail to understand is why and how those individuals who have plotted and are carrying out this subversive activity are still being allowed to suck air.....Perhaps Trump has better plans for them for the upcoming election?
