florida governor ron desantis and other possible republican presidential contenders should he choose to jump in the 2024 presidential race. as one gop strategist put it nbc news recently quote, the rally around trump effect israel. if you couldn t tell already, donald trump is a competitive man who seems to enjoy and even seems to thrive on chaos and he s not ready to walk away from this manner with the fbi play it. on friday, he posted on social media platform of truth social that quote a major motion pertaining to the fourth amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal break in of my home, mar-a-lago, right before the midterm elections. i ve got my constitution here. i just want to read to the fourth amendment in the constitution is what protects americans from unreasonable searches and seizures by the u.s. government. reads in part, no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searche
florida governor ron desantis and other possible republican presidential contenders should he choose to jump in the 2024 presidential race. as one gop strategist put it nbc news recently quote, the rally around trump effect israel. if you couldn t tell already, donald trump is a competitive man who seems to enjoy and even seems to thrive on chaos and he s not ready to walk away from this manner with the fbi play it. on friday, he posted on social media platform of truth social that quote a major motion pertaining to the fourth amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal break in of my home, mar-a-lago, right before the midterm elections. i ve got my constitution here. i just want to read to the fourth amendment in the constitution is what protects americans from unreasonable searches and seizures by the u.s. government. reads in part, no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
power to try all impeachments. but then the constitutional text goes on to say this. when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. that oath or affirmation requires each member of the senate to do impartial justice. this constitutionally administered oath or affirmation has been given in every proceeding in this body since 17 1798, indeed, to signify the importance of the occasion, the senate s more recent traditions call for you, as you did, to sign the book. and that book is not simply part of the record, it s entrusted to
president was at all times acting under his constitutional authority, under his legal authority, international interests and pursuant to his oath of office. asking a foreign leader to get to the bottom of issues of corruption is not a violation of an oath. it was interesting because there was a lot of discussion the other day about lieutenant colonel vindman, and one of the things that we reiterate is that he himself said he did not know if there was anything of crime or anything of that nature. he had deep policy concerns. i think that is what this is really about, is deep policy concerns, deep policy differences. we live in a constitutional republic where you have deep policy concerns and deep differences. that should not be the basis of an impeachment. if the bar of impeachment has now reached that level, then for
the national archives. in contrast, members of the house of representatives do not take an oath in connection with impeachment. the framers of our constitution knew when an oath or affirmation should be required. the senate, yes. the house, no. and thus each member of the world s greatest deliberative body now has special, indeed, unique duties and obligations, duties imposed under our founding document. during the clinton impeachment trial 21 years ago in this chamber, the chief justice of the united states ruled a response to the interjection of