This morning, AG Lynch artfully dodged questions from GOP members regarding her decision to “not” seek an indictment against HRC, in spite of, growing evidence that would contradict that decision.
Question: When she consistently referred her answers to the previous testimony of Comey and other members of her staff, didn’t she place herself in the precarious position of a possible impeachment by having never reviewed the evidence and making the final determination based on her “own” judgement?
Oddly enough, this objection did not surface before Comey delivered his goods. Indeed, as I recall, there were dark rumblings about serious trouble if she overrode Comey’s suggested course of action, back when it was assumed that he would call for Hillary to walk naked to the Hill while pelted with garbage.
On the other hand, its important to remember that both sides do it.
What growing evidence?
Even if she reviewed the evidence, that’s nothing like being involved in the investigation for over a year.
You think Comey isn’t good enough to make the recommendation?
How do you know she didn’t review the evidence?
Maybe an investigation should be opened against Bush and his servers and missing(22 million) emails. Would you agree to that?
He’s already walked on falsely leading us into war, you want to bust him for parking tickets?
First, Republicans fretted over Lynch injecting herself too much into the decision on whether to prosecute. Now, they are fretting over whether Lynch didn’t inject herself enough? Am I getting this right?
Jesus Christ on a flaming handcart, have people lost their damn minds?
Well, I don’t think they’ve lost their minds; I think we know exactly where their minds are: fixated on Hillary.
I heard just the first half hour or so of the hearings, but I thought that both Lynch and John Conyers (ranking Democrat) did excellent jobs of putting the Need For These Hearings into proper perspective. Their discussions of the ACTUAL problems facing the nation and the Justice Department this week, versus the trumped up ‘outrage’ over Clinton’s email, were sobering.
Congress can impeach for any reason they want. She wore white after labor day: impeachment hearings are called.
I do have a technical question: removing the President from office after an impeachment takes 2/3 of the Senate. Is that the same standard for removing a Cabinet Secretary? The Constitution doesn’t say, but there must be some clarifying Federal Law.
It’s the same for all impeachment trials
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The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
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Yep. Remember when Ford got impeached over the squirrelly Nixon pardon? Reagan’s various impeachments over Iran-Contra and the 240 Marines killed in Beirut? How the Democrats made Cheney and Bush eat shit sandwiches while sitting on a tall pile of impeachments over pretty much everything between 2000 and 2008?
Man, ALL those guvmint people are JUST THE SAME.
Yep, and the funny thing is that the Republicans are looking more and more inept as they investigate investigations and investigators.
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board,** wbkski**! Sorry for these guys, they really like Hillary Clinton, and they hate Republicans even more.
Even if true, (the number of posters who genuinely like Clinton can be counted without even extending the count to one’s toes), that response provides no support or defense for the Republican effort to do absolutely everything to ignore their own candidate while trying to find any remotely possible reason to remove any Democrat from the race who could conceivably beat their candidate.
Having exhausted multiple investigations and millions of dollars trying to blame her for the Benghazi debacle, (where her requests for funds for embassy security were routinely shot down by the Republican Congress and even the Republican investigations have been unable to find serious flaws in her actions), they have now moved on to trying to use e-mail scandals, (which never bothered them while GWB was “losing” between 5 million and 22 million such missives).
It is fine to imply that the SDMB left-leaning posters are partisan. It would be hypocritical to imply that only those posters on the Left engaged in such partisan behavior.
Ah! Super! Thank you. I’d overlooked that bit. (I really have read the Constitution! I spend a semester studying it in class in quite some detail. But, doggone, it’s a complicated li’l document!)
At least we got Andrew Johnson.
I’ve seen politicians duck and dodge for a long time. That’s not what Loretta Lynch was doing. She handled the case with the utmost professionalism and did a great job of handling an unfortunate situation when Bill basically stalked her.
I’m not convinced either way about the stalking accusation (although I think Bill is a massive tool–a brilliant, often savvy, charismatic tool, but a massive tool). However, her answers, as I understand them, were the epitome of professionalism. Only a shitty boss receives an exhaustively researched report from a subordinate and decides to rewrite it.
The hearings, of course, were for the purpose of finding some way in which Lynch said something that ever-so-slightly differed from what Comey said, at which point a new investigation could be launched. “Comey said there was insufficient evidence that Clinton knowingly sent classified emails, but Lynch said that Clinton did not knowingly send classified emails! COVERUP!!!” Lynch quite correctly refused to provide fodder for that sort of nonsense.
Nope. The Senate vote failed.
But he was still impeached.
Yep. Impeached.
At least with Clinton, it wasn’t even close. Not even a simple majority, much less 2/3. We almost got Johnson.
(Actually, I’m on Johnson’s side. Oh, well.)
(And Hayes/Tilden still rankles…)
Let the Republicans go ahead and impeach her. She’ll be out of office in 7 months no matter what happens.
But the election is in November, and since no one can reasonably predict what will happen, then the impeachment process has to be wrapped up by the end of October. That gives the Republicans barely 3 1/2 months to put the whole case together, with the Obama administration screaming and foot-dragging every step of the way. And once the impeachment process goes to trial, it’ll be the Vice President who presides, not the Chief Justice, while the senators want to go home and campaign.
It’ll be great!