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I wasn’t saying lying is an impeachable offense, but high crimes and misdemeanors is pretty vague, so possibly.

Due process is in a criminal court. Like I said earlier impeachment is closest to the grand jury where the defendant doesn’t get to present a defense.

Trump has been impeached and Pelosi has broken custom. That’s it. She’s playing politics to muddy up the news cycle. She’ll drop the Articles of Impeachment on the Senate’s doorstep at an inopportune time. I could see her hold them as late as June.

I see her break of custom much the way McConnell held Obama’s Supreme Court pick. Democrats were arms in the air over that, but he just broke custom. Elections have consequences and politicians are always finding an angle to help their party and their cause.

IG report told the FBI was fast and loose with FISA warrants. Is that news? Or is it now suddenly bad because they went after Trump associates?
A few scoldings and that’s all that will happen. FBI is already back in business. If the report had anything in it that would stick, Barr wouldn’t have asked Durham to start a new investigation the next day to keep the President happy.

That duly elected president argument is tired. Nixon and Clinton were duly elected (Johnson assumed the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination). They did something from the time they were elected to justify the impeachment process. We don’t elect kings that aren’t checked. Democrats don’t want that; Republicans don’t want that.

Dark time? Give me a break. It’s business as usual here in the USA. Trump was impeached and the needle didn’t move despite one side saying the economy would crash. He was elected while one side the world would be over.

Too many citizens listening to these rebel rousers and not stepping out of the vacuum.

You have a very poor understanding of American history and Constitutional law.

Americans' right to due process under the law is not restricted to criminal courts and U.S. presidents do not lose their Constitutional right to due process when they are elected to office. The framers of the Constitution did not include the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" by accident. They never expected that impeachment of a sitting president would be used strictly as a political ploy to overturn the results of an election in the absence of the commission of a serious criminal offense that undermined the legitimacy of our system of government.

Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution state that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Your assertion that our right to due process applies only to criminal prosecutions is just flat out wrong.

You seem to be confusing the impeachment process, by which an individual is removed from an elected office or the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors with a recall process, by which some states may require elected officials to face new elections based on what can be purely political reasons.

Impeaching a president of the United States is not business as usual. Attempts to overthrow democratically elected presidents is business as usual in banana republics, which is what Democrats like you seem determined to have this nation become.

At least thanks to our two major political parties, we have no shortage of illegal immigrants in this country who have experience participating in banana republics.