An unintentional 'invitation' from Trump to start the impeachment proceedings
Today in CNN regarding a piece in The Washington Post;In response to:
George Conway: Trump sends 'invitation to commence impeachment proceedings'
By Jamie Ehrlich, CNN
Updated 8:46 PM ET, Wed June 12, 2019
Washington (CNN)Conservative lawyer George Conway, the husband of top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, and former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Wednesday that a brief filed by President Donald Trump's lawyers represents an "invitation to commence impeachment proceedings."
Writing in The Washington Post opinion section, Conway and Katyal said Trump's brief, filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, presents "an argument for autocrats, not Americans," in maintaining that Congress cannot investigate the president -- except possibly as part of impeachment proceedings -- because it represents an overreach of law enforcement authority reserved for the President.
The Trump team fights back in the brief against the multiple investigations being conducted into the administration by congressional Democrats -- the Oversight Committee, in this instance -- saying that Congress is "trying to prove that the President broke the law" and the Oversight Committee's subpoena of Trump's accountants exceeds Congress' constitutional authority.
The brief, Conway and Katyal, write, "can be construed as an invitation to commence impeachment proceedings."
They go on to say that Trump's defiance of congressional subpoenas -- along with his insults of judges and journalists -- is not "proper" for a President of the United States.
"Other leaders around the world may behave this way, but these are not proper actions of a president of the United States. What makes the United States exceptional is its commitment to its constitutional architecture, particularly divided powers," they write.
"Every principle behind the rule of law requires the commencement of a process now to make this president a former one," the piece concludes.
Katyal was acting solicitor general during the Obama administration.
Conway, as the husband of one of Trump's top surrogates, and someone who once wanted to work in the administration, has emerged as extremely unlikely critic of the President.
He argued in a Washington Post op-ed in March that counter to Trump's claims, special counsel Robert Mueller had not "exonerated" him and that it was time for Congress to step in. In April, he called on Congress to remove Trump from office following the release of the redacted special counsel report.
George Conway: Trump sends 'invitation to commence impeachment proceedings'
By Jamie Ehrlich, CNN
Updated 8:46 PM ET, Wed June 12, 2019
Washington (CNN)Conservative lawyer George Conway, the husband of top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, and former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Wednesday that a brief filed by President Donald Trump's lawyers represents an "invitation to commence impeachment proceedings."
Writing in The Washington Post opinion section, Conway and Katyal said Trump's brief, filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, presents "an argument for autocrats, not Americans," in maintaining that Congress cannot investigate the president -- except possibly as part of impeachment proceedings -- because it represents an overreach of law enforcement authority reserved for the President.
The Trump team fights back in the brief against the multiple investigations being conducted into the administration by congressional Democrats -- the Oversight Committee, in this instance -- saying that Congress is "trying to prove that the President broke the law" and the Oversight Committee's subpoena of Trump's accountants exceeds Congress' constitutional authority.
The brief, Conway and Katyal, write, "can be construed as an invitation to commence impeachment proceedings."
They go on to say that Trump's defiance of congressional subpoenas -- along with his insults of judges and journalists -- is not "proper" for a President of the United States.
"Other leaders around the world may behave this way, but these are not proper actions of a president of the United States. What makes the United States exceptional is its commitment to its constitutional architecture, particularly divided powers," they write.
"Every principle behind the rule of law requires the commencement of a process now to make this president a former one," the piece concludes.
Katyal was acting solicitor general during the Obama administration.
Conway, as the husband of one of Trump's top surrogates, and someone who once wanted to work in the administration, has emerged as extremely unlikely critic of the President.
He argued in a Washington Post op-ed in March that counter to Trump's claims, special counsel Robert Mueller had not "exonerated" him and that it was time for Congress to step in. In April, he called on Congress to remove Trump from office following the release of the redacted special counsel report.
"All in all, it's just another brick in the wall" And not the one Trump wants at the southern US border. Instead, his continual attempts to obstruct justice are going to get him in extremely hot water and eventually tar & feathers.
As one of the expert witnesses, a former prosecutor, and law professor stated
during the House intelligence hearing yesterday, "Just because obstruction of justice is done out in the open, does not make it any less illegal. "
I can foresee hearing massive crowds, much larger than for his inauguration, chanting outside the Senate less than a year from now,
"Lock him up ! Lock him up !........."
Sort of poetic justice and federal justice at the same time.
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