they did not include the entire text in their first quoting of that text. this is jim jordan s entire text, which he says he was forwarding from someone else to mark meadows. on january 6, 2021, vice president mike pence as president of the senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all in accordance with guy dance from founding father alexander hamilton and judicial precedence. no legislative act, wrote alexander hamilton in federalist no. 78 contrary to the constitution, can be valid. the court in hubbard v.lowe reinforced this truth that an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion. appeal dismissed. following this rationale, an
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The First Amendment does not limit the removal and disqualification powers conferred on Congress by the Constitution.
February 8, 2021
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Front and center in former President Donald Trump’s defense this week will be the argument that convicting him and disqualifying him from holding future office would violate his First Amendment rights that it would essentially amount to punishing him for speaking his mind. His new lawyer, David Schoen, has warned that convicting Trump “is putting at risk any passionate political speaker, which is against everything we believe in in this country.”
That is wrong. Even if the First Amendment protected Trump from criminal and tort liability for his January 6 exhortation to the crowd that later stormed the Capitol, it has no bearing on whether Congress can convict and disqualify a president for misconduct that consisted, in part, of odious speech that rapidly and foreseeably resulted in deadly violence.
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The Senate Trial Will Test Whether Republicans Care Even About Themselves
The whole American government is premised on the idea that politicians will act in their own interests. A Senate that won’t protect itself from attack can’t protect the country.
January 25, 2021
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Last week’s maximum-security inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rendered all the more surreal the chaos that unfolded on the Hill just weeks before. The assault on the Capitol was an attack on the country, on democracy, on free and fair elections, and on the rule of law. But at the most basic level, it was an attack on what Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the engineer and urban designer who created the initial blueprint of Washington, D.C., designated the “Congress House.”
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The Senate must convict Trump in order to disqualify him from ever holding public office again.
January 16, 2021
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Later this month, the Senate will come back into session and will soon consider whether to convict Donald Trump, following his bipartisan impeachment by the House of Representatives. The Senate must vote to convict Trump, even though by then he will be out of office and a private citizen. The reason is that only by convicting Trump can the Senate proceed to an even more important vote: to disqualify him from ever holding public office again. And this is absolutely necessary for preserving American democracy in faith with the history, and the principles, that undergird the United States Constitution.