The Trump Impeachment Begins

The only reason the Trump Impeachment is a partisan effort is because the GOP refused to look at the extent of his un-American, unPresidential, treasonous and criminal acts and behaviors. If it were one or two instances of merely questionable or unpopular nature the House would not be considering this ultimate action against the Chief Executive. They waited. They debated. They tried to not go down this path even though from day-one they had justification.

The activities which follow the Sept 24th announcement will have far reaching impact on the American social and political scene. It will not be pretty. It will be necessary. And the residuals will be endured for many years.

Extreme corrupt behavior must necessarily be countered with extreme remedies. While the claim by Trump supporters is that he WAS elected and should be allowed to do that job, only the first half of that claim is valid. He was elected but he is not doing the job he was elected to. Neither is he doing so in a lawful manner.

Partisan or not, it is the job of Congress to hold the President to the laws of the land and to stop perpetrators from running amok. It is their job to challenge his actions when he is wrong.
When the proceeding reach the Senate we shall probably see the GOP Senators mount a partisan defense of Trump’s actions. It will be a trial with Senators as jury. The jury is supposed to weight the evidence and render an impartial verdict based in law and not on personal feelings

I suspect that if the impeachment trial were an ordinary criminal proceeding most if not all Senators would not get past the voir dire to be accepted as a qualified juror.

The next few months will be very contentious. But since Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, holds every House Bill in stasis anyway, there will be ample time to proceed with impeaching the President without foregoing other business of the Republic.

It remains to be seen whether any GOP Senators will break with their party bloc and vote to remove Trump for his many High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Their integrity is at stake.

Yes,The Law is on Trumps Side, but...

Yes the Law is on Trump's side. Therein lies the problem. The laws have always been written and interpreted in terms of rational people who were placed in charge of our democracy. Alternatively, they were written by people who would derive value from the efforts of others and call it their own.

Never before has there been a scenario where United States elected officials were subverted by foreign influences and those people were the ones in power. It has always been the influence of domestic power that allowed the individuals vested with power to yield that power with little or no interference. While the Law may be on Trumps side, that doesn't mean the laws are good laws of just and equitable laws. Those laws can be changed.

Today we have a man who has wrested power from the former owners and is utilizing it for entirely new purposes. Not only does he represent a particular political party but he also has the backing of both the House and the Senate. His use of power has been commingled with his own enterprises for creation of personal and family wealth. People with whom he has business relations are standing in line for him to sign the papers to free them to exploit terrestrial resources and those of people that in need. 

Nothing he sends their way will get voted down and no bills sent to him will be vetoed. This entire scenario is the recipe for disaster. At some point in time he and Congress will differ on some positions but all the important and far reaching actions will already have been agreed upon. Food availability, housing, medical care, education are all a matter of law. So is who is allowed to have such things.

He is feeding the GOP controlled Congress all the items they have had on their agenda for decades. Education policy is trashed by a religious zealot until Congress formally disposed of the Department entirely. Similarly, the Attorney General, William Sessions, is a self-styled racist judge who also promised to foist his religious notions on minority groups under the guise of "restoring religious freedoms with such Act as titled: Restoring Religious Freedoms Act. Eliminating the Environmental Protection Administration is yet another action now or soon to be signed out of existence via signature on an Executive Order.

Once GOP is finished with Mr. Trump, they will kick him to the curb in favor of their more favored President, Mike Pence. He will be better suited to carry America into its century of Theocratic governance.

However, in the meantime, the Law is on the side of the now President, Trump. But that power of law is not absolute. The US has a Judicial Branch which was designed to keep the Legislature and Executive in check. Neither of them can run off willy-nilly doing just anything they want to. There remains that ever-present and highly regarded document, the Constitution, to be satisfied.

The founding father of this country saw the possibilities of a tyrant getting into power or for an incompetent to be elected by the folly of the people who were so taken astray. They built into the Constitution safeguard to right the wrong. It is time this country take a long and hard look at the road we are now traveling. It is time to stop and go a different way.