Says the person whose OP included a link to “theconservativetreehouse”.
Yeah. OK, Buddy.
So does obfuscation to prevent inquiry. The Constitution requires a vote. Are you against the Constitution?
Again, there seem to be comprehension issues at play here, in addition to the grammatical ones.
The Constitution does NOT require a vote. If you believe it does, you are mistaken. If you do not believe it does, you are worse than mistaken. In any event, I’ll be heading off to have some dinner now. Perhaps you would be well served to do some reading of your own with regard to these issues.
It seems that your sources are ignorant of the constitution.
The rules are that Republicans don’t need to abide by the rules, but Democrats are expected to abide by rules that aren’t even in the rules.
Please quote the Constitution where it requires a vote.
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Ooh, that’s a scary response.
The Constitution doesn’t require a vote. You can’t show us where it does, because it doesn’t. Not even Trump believes a vote is required and he’s a moron, according to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. And dumb as shit, according to former economic adviser Gary Cohn. And an idiot, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin *and *former chief of staff Reince Priebus *and *former White House chief of staff John Kelly *and *former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. Hey, he only picks the best guys. They know what they’re talking about. Unlike, you know, places like the conservative tree house.
But it does say this:
That ought to scare you. It scares the shit out of Trump and a bunch of Republicans in Congress. And man, that’s a lot of shit.
Would any response short of “Good Gosh And Golly-You are absolutely right!!” be acceptable to you?
Trump and Trump voters, peas in a pod. Peas in a “No, I’ve never actually read the constitution” pod.
Sure, he can. All he has to do is find a copy of the Constitution, copy the part where it says a vote is required, and post it here!
… I’ll just leave this here: https://constitutionus.com/
Moderating:
Before this plays out I’m not sure if there is a GQ answer. It’s not directly related to an election so I won’t move it there. There seems to be a debate about what will happen so that’s where it will go. So moved.
As I understand it (and I can be wrong) a House vote passing articles of impeachment - charges in an indictment - sends the indictment to the Senate for trial. The White House seems to insist they can’t be investigated, can’t be compelled to comply with subpoenas, until AFTER the indictment, which is just plumb loco. No - investigate first, find evidence, draw up charges, THEN indict / impeach.
…and no indictment without due process evidence.
Of course there is a factual answer and there is no requirement to take a vote of the full House before proceeding with subpoenas and investigations. I am quite skeptical that the administration would suddenly start honoring subpoenas if Pelosi took that full House vote. The House can and should take failures to comply with subpoenas very seriously and take them to court, which will expedite the matter and it should go up to the Supreme Court in a matter of weeks. I suppose the next thing that the right wing will come up with is that subpoenas can be ignored because the flag in the House chamber doesn’t have gold fringe or something equally silly.
Check.
Let me see if I understand your question. The House has subpoena power already but some hack in the White House asserts they need to take a vote first. You assume the WH hack knows WTF he’s talking about.
If that same hack had asserted that Speaker Pelosi needs to walk naked down Fifth Avenue before the subpoenas were valid, would that be your talking point?
It would cause delays and help Trump.
(golf clap)
Tempe Jeff: before I consider further participation in this thread, are you here to learn and take on information posted by people who clearly know more than you do about this topic? Or are you just here to sneer at the stoopid libruls? If it’s the latter, I see no point in bothering.
Eh, never mind; I think I have my answer.