He abused the power of his office for personal and political gain and has refused to cooperate with a co-equal branch of government this is a vote for our constitution setting the precedent for all future presidents Democrat or Republican Donald Trump must be held accountable for his actions today we send a clear signal to this president and all future presidents no one is above the law I yield back the gentleman from Georgia. Thank you madam speaker at this time of year the minute after the gentleman from Kansas Mr Marshall Genzer recognize him and half I rise today in opposition to the impeachment of the legitimately elected president of the United States enough madam speaker for the love of this country enough as Roger Marshall this congressman from Kansas enough of these sham which guns I m voting no because the president has done nothing wrong the only thing the President Trump is guilty of is doing the things he said he would do and if my Democrat colleagues were honest they tel
They they found the president formulation Madison at one point suggested malfeasance but then he thought better of and thought wow that s going to politicize the process too much because then we ll overuse it that this is the problem it has to be rare enough that it almost never occurs but but common enough that it can be used in extremity and so finding the way to tune the impeachment clause has been one of the was one of the difficulties of the constitutional convention and as you know historically it s proved to be a very difficult business on the the 3 or 4 occasions when it s come up in your country Edwin Randolph introduced it it was part of his Virginia plan Alexander Hamilton submitted his own plan based on the British legal system but not all of the delegates favored it Governor Morris fear that it would cause a president to become submissive leading him to become a quote tool of a faction George Mason said No point is of more importance than the right of impeachment he asked
Really shows the true motives of the Senate it s circular how this is all gone it started in 2016 now we re back to 2020 in the middle we had again collusion conspiracy obstruction quid pro quo bribery extortion all of these other crimes we have come to the net those part of this there been a lot of smart lawyers on my on my friends side on the other side of this case so I can and can imagine this is an omission and what we are truly doing is taking power away from the United States Senate which is at their sole discretion we at you have the right to proceed with this we know this and we ve seen how this has gone it s been fast tracked and railroaded since day one and you can equate yourself to a grand jury a special counsel and investigation but you have no right is the u.s. House of Representatives to be judge jury and executioner So while you may say taking this language is out is Riddick ridiculous I think it s actually constitutional and with that I yield back. This gentleman yie
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A flag right now with it is not going through the public testimony and also the even the transcript that is not Mr Lee I will make you does somebody between now and the founders into the jury pool here. Well 1st of all only I will speak for James Madison. No no we all will speak for change Madison with about the same level of accuracy I do find it rather surprising that you would have George Washington in this jury pool I would strike him for cause George Washington was the 1st guy to raise extreme executive privilege claims he had a rather robust view of what a president could say if you were going to make a case to George Washington that you can impeach over a conversation he had with another head of state I expect his hair is powdered hair would catch on fire Fortunately George Washington Law Professor and constitutional expert Jonathan Turley was there to bring the cold reality to the cruise to fantastic cool abuse of power so. What I would caution the committee is that these crim