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According to Just the News, “Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton says the Senate does not have the constitutional authority to hold an impeachment trial for President Trump after he leaves office next week.
“The Senate lacks constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings against a former president,” Cotton said after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday the chamber will not hold a trial on the House’s article of impeachment until senators return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, one day before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
“The Founders designed the impeachment process as a way to remove officeholders from public office – not an inquest against private citizens,” Cotton continued.
McConnell said Wednesday: “Given the rules, procedures, and Senate precedents that govern presidential impeachment trials, there is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week,” McConnell said. “The Senate has held three presidential impeachment trials. They have lasted 83 days, 37 days, and 21 days respectively,” . . .
“The House has passed an article of impeachment against the president, but the Senate under its rules and precedents cannot start and conclude a fair trial before the president leaves office next week,” he said.
The House of Representatives voted 232 to 197 Wednesday to impeach Trump. Ten Republican lawmakers voted in favor of the president’s impeachment, charging him with inciting insurrection after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol last week in protest of the Electoral College certifying Biden as the next president, following one of his rallies. . . .
Cotton condemned the violence and said rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the crimes they committed last week. He noted that rioters should be held accountable for their actions regardless of their justification, pointing out that rioters from last year’s racial protests should be fully prosecuted as well.
“‘There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.’ Those words are as true today as when Abraham Lincoln spoke them,” Cotton said. “As I said last summer when mob violence gripped our streets, so I say again about the mob violence at our nation’s Capitol last week: those persons responsible should be held accountable in the courts to the full extent of the law.”
However, he maintains his stance that his oath to the constitution remains his top priority and that he will not support the impeachment of someone who no longer holds office. . . .
Editor’s Note: And now they are pushing to disqualify him from office. . .
um what
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 24, 2021
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Father, thank you for Senator Cotton. Bless him in his service I our country. I pray you would hold Senator Leahy to your standard of leadership. And I pray for wisdom and discernment in President Trump’s defense.
This is not very spiritual of me, but Tom Cotton reminds me so much of my daddy when he was young and before he was stricken with polio
❤️🙏🇱🇷❤️🙏🇱🇷❤️
What a great interview. GOD STILL HAS GREAT MEN LIKE THIS!!
“This is reality. This is the truth.”
Father, thank You for always giving us great men and women of true valor. Each of us have a gift for such a time and a place as we are in. Thank You for giving me the privilege of being born in this country where Your Word has always so freely and richly been freely available to whosoever will. May it continue for as long as the stars exist to be so. In The Name of our Lord and Salvation \o/🔥Jesus🔥\o/
Oops…forgot to add the link.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNFNtBk7Cag
So very good to watch and really hear….this Spirit is still in the American Leaders, today.
I have never seen in the Bible where demons followed the law. However I am praying their are still enough men and women who fear the Lord that will stand up for Justice.
Thank you Senator Cotton for your stand on truth
Ooops, the headline has a typo…
The democrats are scared to death of President Trump…..and so they should be, BUT, they should be even more scared of the Lord God Almighty and what He can do.
Bring down all those who are against Your ways Lord and let righteousness reign with the brightness of Your Glory. Turn hearts to You Lord. Amen
And may all their other plans to destroy what President Trump has done for the good of the people, also fail.
A multiple amen to that!!