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I am glad you admit there was no due process
Trump as President is co-equal to Congress.
He invoked Executive privilege.
Democrats have decided if Trump does not bow to them and do as they command they will impeach him. That is 100% unconstitutional.
originally posted by: Liquesence
That said, perhaps if the administration hadn't obstructed Congress at every turn, they wouldn't have rushed it as much as they did
What you say is meaningless.
You already admitted the Democrats did not want to wait for the courts
They can impeach Trump for breathing oxygen and calling it a crime
What they can not do is compel the Executive branch to bow to them.
originally posted by: Liquesence
Co-equal. Checks and balances. What the executive cannot do is obstruct Congress in its Constitutional right to hold the Executive accountable.
Their duty then would be to get the courts to rule to address the constitutional crisis.
In a brief filed Thursday, the Justice Department advised a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, set to hear arguments in the case on Jan. 3, that it should “refrain from embroiling itself” in the interbranch legal battle.
“The Committee’s primary asserted need for subpoenaing McGahn – his potential testimony related to an obstruction-of-justice impeachment charge – appears to be moot,” the government argued.
Urging the court to dismiss the case, Justice Department attorneys slammed it as a “radical distortion” of the balance of power between the three branches of government.
“Rather than allow the political branches to resolve disputes over their institutional prerogatives through the political process as they have done for over two centuries, the Committee envisions a world in which the Legislative Branch may simply file complaint after complaint against the Executive Branch, with the Judicial Branch stuck in the middle of legally and politically fraught battles over congressional authority and presidential privileges and other prerogatives,” the brief states.
The last time Congress arrested and detained a witness was in 1935.[4] Since then, it has instead referred cases to the United States Department of Justice.[5] The Office of Legal Counsel has asserted that the President of the United States is protected from contempt by executive privilege
Following a contempt citation, the presiding officer of the chamber is instructed to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia;[15] according to the law it is the duty of the U.S. Attorney to refer the matter to a grand jury for action. However, while the law places the duty on the U.S. Attorney to impanel a grand jury for action, proponents of the unitary executive theory argue that the Congress cannot properly compel the U.S. Attorney to take this action against the Executive Branch, asserting that the U.S. Attorney is a member of the Executive Branch who ultimately reports only to the President and that compelling the U.S. Attorney amounts to compelling the President[citation needed]. According to this theory, to allow Congress to force the President to take action against a subordinate following his directives would be a violation of the separation of powers and infringe on the power of the Executive branch. The legal basis for this position can be found in Federalist 49, in which James Madison wrote “The several departments being perfectly co-ordinate by the terms of their common commission, none of them, it is evident, can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers; and how are the encroachments of the stronger to be prevented, or the wrongs of the weaker to be redressed, without an appeal to the people themselves, who, as the grantors of the commissions, can alone declare its true meaning, and enforce its observance?”[16] This approach to government is commonly known as "departmentalism” or “coordinate construction”
originally posted by: Liquesence
They aren't Constitutionally required to do so.
originally posted by: Liquesence
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
I am glad you admit there was no due process
Again: where is due process Constitutionally required for impeachment?
Trump as President is co-equal to Congress.
Not according to him.
He invoked Executive privilege.
He did not.
Democrats have decided if Trump does not bow to them and do as they command they will impeach him. That is 100% unconstitutional.
Trump decided Congressional oversight does not apply to him. Congress is a check and balance on the Executive. Constitutionally. Wait for it...as a co-equal branch of government.
"Sole power of impeachment."