Legislative bodies have used secret ballot before, this isn’t a new precedent.
This is the one vote you will definitely face retaliation and intimidation. The secret ballot removes that possibility.
You don’t need a legal team when you have fully compromised members of congress willing to do your bidding.
Why pay a lawyer when you’re pet dogs are already bought?
They sure as hell aren’t acting like it.
They are willing to let him get away with an attempted coup. Sit with that a minute.
Would you trust a lawyer called “Butch Bowers”?
He probably has issues.
Like Babs would lower herself to work for the likes of Trump.
For 40 years I’ve been saying “how bad does it have to get before these idiots stop voting for the republican fuckers?” And for 40 years it’s been getting worse and worse and worse, and people continue to vote for them. We had a deadly pandemic, a terrible economy, and the worst president in history devoted to tearing the country apart. You’d think that would have been enough, but the last election shows it wasn’t.
Not to worry. Get Alan Dershowitz to tell us again that whatever a politician does to remain in power is okay, because politicians want to stay in power and that’s okay - okay?
sorted.
Considering it would be an easy “win” in a trial bound to attract huge national and international press coverage I imagine lots of attorneys would normally be happy to take the case just for the free publicity.
The most obvious reason to bail this close to the trial date is that Trump is asking them to say or do things that could hurt their careers or even lead to criminal charges, like making demonstrably false arguments about election fraud.
Honestly, it doesn’t even matter. Trump has at least 40 defense attorneys sitting on the jury. He could walk in, drop trow, take a big old dump over the floor of the Senate, and still not be convicted. Evidence and testimony isn’t going to change anyone’s position at this point. They’re locked in for political reasons.
There’s some local guy (I’m sure they are everywhere) posting everyday about how Trump WON on craigslist, multiple times a day, all the little memes and theories, every piece of inane twisted logic.
“Hey bro, if Trump can’t even get lawyers to defend him, how likely is it that he’s innocent?”
(I’m sure there is some labored explanation, these dimwits always have one.)
Technically, they grate on you and wear you down.
Or, at the very least, Trump’s seeking another platform to repeat his fraudulent election claims, to win over voters. But either way, this doesn’t work for lawyers, because he’s either admitting to it, or he’s demanding that they state lies, which I’m assuming would be just as problematic if they had done so in a regular court. I.e. they’d open themselves to legal liability, which is why none of Trump’s lawyers have ever repeated any of his claims in court.
I think what we’re discovering is that Republicans, it turns out, don’t actually believe in anything at all.
Yeah, there’s absolutely no way you can have a functional, democratic government when one of two parties is now openly anti-democratic.
Quite a few members of congress have to be expelled, at a minimum.
There’s a reason why none of Trump’s lawyers have repeated any of his claims in court*, much less made them the basis for the legal arguments - because they know the claims are lies, and knowingly making false statements in court opens them up to liability. They could, in theory, lose their law licenses or other sanctions.
*Giuliani was the exception, briefly mentioning election fraud in one case, but then when questioned, backing away from the claim at high speed.
Which comports with previous stories about him being a nightmare to work for - e.g. having to have two people from his law firm meet with him so his lawyer would have a witness, because otherwise he’d lie about what he previously said to his own legal team… not being able to put him on the stand because they knew he’d lie… that he’d demand defense strategies that were illegal, etc. etc.
That’ll be necessary, but it wouldn’t completely undo the damage of an acquittal in the Senate. If nothing else, that would indicate that impeachment was a totally worthless, broken mechanism that has no power (making the president’s power essentially unlimited in some respects), and that, as a country, we have no fundamental process for maintaining a democracy.
Heck, a member of congress was almost beaten to death by another member of congress, in the Senate chamber.
They’ve made it abundantly clear they care about nothing but power. I was just reading something in the NYTimes about all the supposedly “closely held” political and personal principles that Marco Rubio has thrown in the garbage in the Trump era, to suck up to someone he clearly despises.
I’d not be at all surprised, with a secret vote, if some Republicans voted to convict just so they could make a political career out of attacking the result. Because that’s where the party is now - they’re all about outrages and grievances, even when they have to manufacture them themselves, and they are entirely that cynical.
I remember some poll that surveyed Republicans back in 2000 or early 2001, where about half of them basically expressed a desire to live in a theocracy rather than a democracy. Fundamentally, this is what the modern Republican party has always been, since its re-formation as the anti-civil rights party in the '60s - a Christo-fascist white-supremacy party. They just never felt threatened enough to abandon democracy, previously; they felt safely in control of the country, and that impacted their expression of their politics, rather than their politics itself.
Nah.
Divine hated 45 before it was cool.
thing is if they don’t convict trump, the Gop is going to be held responsible for his actions (bad press). So when a better majority of dems is elected, they’re gonna get stomped.
Someone in that picture is trash, and it’s most certainly not Divine…
