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Direct Headline: Gearing Up for G.O.P. Gains, White House Braces for Barrage of Inquiries
President Biden’s legal team is laying the groundwork to defend against an expected onslaught of oversight investigations by congressional Republicans, should they take one or both chambers in the midterm elections — including preparing for the possibility of impeachment....As part of those preparations, Mr. Biden and his White House counsel, Dana Remus, have hired Richard A. Sauber, a longtime white-collar defense lawyer who is now the top lawyer at the Department of Veterans Affairs....
Republicans have also signaled an intent to scrutinize various matters related to the pandemic that could reach into the White House, including the administration’s imposition of mask mandates and the extension of an evictions moratorium, both of which were later blocked in court....And they have listed a series of other topics they intend to dig into, including the .... withdrawal from Afghanistan and the surge in (illegal) migration across the southwestern border....Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said ..... “there will be enormous pressure on a Republican House to begin impeachment proceedings....The Democrats weaponized impeachment.....They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. … What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.......”
......Still, the party that does not control the presidency typically does well in the midterms....Among (Sauber's) clients was Susan Rice, a top official in the Obama and Biden administrations, during the Republican-led investigation into the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.....Mr. Sauber will have the title “special counsel to the president,”.....This year, a lot of (Congressional) seats are up for grabs, including all 435 House seats, 35 of the 100 Senate seats and 36 of 50 governorships.....What do the midterms mean for Biden? With slim majorities in Congress, Democrats have struggled to pass Mr. Biden’s agenda. Republican control of the House or Senate would make the president’s legislative goals a near-impossibility.....In 2011, (Bauer) was the White House counsel to President Barack Obama when Republicans took over the House and began investigating matters like the botched “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking case.....
....In April, Representative Greg Murphy, Republican of North Carolina, (said) there were “plenty” of grounds to impeach Mr. Biden, citing the border crisis, Afghanistan and other ways he said the president had committed offenses “against the heart and soul of this country.”.... The dilemma... was that Ms. (Kamala) Harris, who would become president if Mr. Biden were removed, was worse......
.... Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, who is likely to become speaker if Republicans take the House, and asked whether he would move to impeach Mr. Biden....McCarthy, the minority leader, accused Democrats of using impeachment “for political reasons,” which he said Republicans would not do..... Still, he vowed to hold the Biden administration accountable and follow the facts.....“We believe in the rule of law.....We’re not going to pick and choose just because somebody has power. We’re going to uphold the law. At any time, if someone breaks the law and the ramification becomes impeachment, we would move toward that........"
By Charlie Savage and Michael S. Schmidt May 14, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/us/politics/white-house-lawyers-oversight.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/166152/republicans-impeach-joe-biden-2022
Direct Headline: Over Two-thirds of Republicans Think President Biden Should be Impeached if the GOP Retakes the House, According to New National UMass Amherst Poll
68% of Republicans and Trump voters and 66% of conservatives all would like to see the President charged by Congress for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, the formal criteria for impeachment laid out in the Constitution....
“The decision to impeach a president was once viewed as a last resort to reign in a president who pushed or broke through the boundaries of our laws, values and ethics....Today, impeachment is no longer a final option, but one of many weapons to be used in an era of rampant partisan polarization to gain an upper hand on one’s partisan opponents.....In the 2018 midterm, turnout was at its highest level since 1914 with close to 120 million Americans going to the polls....Our results suggest that the days of low voter turnout in midterm elections may be over with Americans on both sides of the partisan divide expressing excitement to vote in 2022 and expressing their belief that the results of the 2022 midterm will be important for the nation’s future.”.....Far and away, the poll finds that the economy is the top issue on voters’ minds. Nearly one-third of all respondents (32%), nearly half of Republicans (45%) and more than a third of independents (37%) tabbed the economy as their most important issue when making their candidate choice in the midterms. ....Meanwhile nearly identical proportions of Democrats cited the economy (22%), climate change (20%) and abortion (18%) as their top issue heading into this November’s election.
....“Democrats already face likely losses in Congress during the midterms, and if inflation doesn’t cool off soon those losses could be very serious....If the past is any indication, then President Biden and the Democratic Party will likely lose seats in the U.S. Congress if not total control of both the House and the Senate,”......
UMass May 13, 2022
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/over-two-thirds-republicans-think-president-biden-should-be-impeached-if-gop-retakes
Hunter Biden Laptop Emails Complete Archive
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/
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The Republican Party will likely take control of both the HOR and Senate in the 2022 Mid Terms. If that happens, I expect for sitting POTUS Joe Biden to be impeached.
While there is a long list of scandals and failures (pick one, they are all ugly), and while the economy/inflation will be the main trigger points to enrage the average working class American citizen, the practical legal pathway will likely be one of / some of:
1) The Border Crisis
2) The Disastrous Withdrawal From Afghanistan
3) Some Scandal Rooting From The Hunter Biden Laptop
4) COVID19 Response/Failure (This will include school lock downs, business lock downs, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, financial oversight incompetence/corruption/fraud, etc, etc)
Questions For Discussion:
A) WWYD / What Would You Do : If you were a member of the HOR or the Senate, what would your vote be for impeachment of Joe Biden?
B) If you would vote to impeach Joe Biden, specifically why? What would you consider as the most pressing issue? ( I'm going to ask the endless gaggle of lawyers here in the FBG forums to acknowledge that most people here are not in the legal game. Please do not run tribalist purity tests on "high crimes and misdemeanors" Let people have their say on this. )
C) If you would vote NOT to impeach Joe Biden, specifically why? What would you consider as the most pressing reasons to avoid impeachment for what you feel would be the most likely scandal presented forward? Or feel free to cover all of them.
D) For both types of respondents, where does "The Kamala Harris Factor" come into play? Will your view of the VPOTUS and her competence/incompetence or any other line of succession issue sway your decision at all?
E) If Biden is impeached after the Mid Terms, do you have a general opinion on the clear shift in how impeachment is being used in modern American politics?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
President Biden’s legal team is laying the groundwork to defend against an expected onslaught of oversight investigations by congressional Republicans, should they take one or both chambers in the midterm elections — including preparing for the possibility of impeachment....As part of those preparations, Mr. Biden and his White House counsel, Dana Remus, have hired Richard A. Sauber, a longtime white-collar defense lawyer who is now the top lawyer at the Department of Veterans Affairs....
Republicans have also signaled an intent to scrutinize various matters related to the pandemic that could reach into the White House, including the administration’s imposition of mask mandates and the extension of an evictions moratorium, both of which were later blocked in court....And they have listed a series of other topics they intend to dig into, including the .... withdrawal from Afghanistan and the surge in (illegal) migration across the southwestern border....Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said ..... “there will be enormous pressure on a Republican House to begin impeachment proceedings....The Democrats weaponized impeachment.....They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. … What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.......”
......Still, the party that does not control the presidency typically does well in the midterms....Among (Sauber's) clients was Susan Rice, a top official in the Obama and Biden administrations, during the Republican-led investigation into the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.....Mr. Sauber will have the title “special counsel to the president,”.....This year, a lot of (Congressional) seats are up for grabs, including all 435 House seats, 35 of the 100 Senate seats and 36 of 50 governorships.....What do the midterms mean for Biden? With slim majorities in Congress, Democrats have struggled to pass Mr. Biden’s agenda. Republican control of the House or Senate would make the president’s legislative goals a near-impossibility.....In 2011, (Bauer) was the White House counsel to President Barack Obama when Republicans took over the House and began investigating matters like the botched “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking case.....
....In April, Representative Greg Murphy, Republican of North Carolina, (said) there were “plenty” of grounds to impeach Mr. Biden, citing the border crisis, Afghanistan and other ways he said the president had committed offenses “against the heart and soul of this country.”.... The dilemma... was that Ms. (Kamala) Harris, who would become president if Mr. Biden were removed, was worse......
.... Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, who is likely to become speaker if Republicans take the House, and asked whether he would move to impeach Mr. Biden....McCarthy, the minority leader, accused Democrats of using impeachment “for political reasons,” which he said Republicans would not do..... Still, he vowed to hold the Biden administration accountable and follow the facts.....“We believe in the rule of law.....We’re not going to pick and choose just because somebody has power. We’re going to uphold the law. At any time, if someone breaks the law and the ramification becomes impeachment, we would move toward that........"
By Charlie Savage and Michael S. Schmidt May 14, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/us/politics/white-house-lawyers-oversight.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/166152/republicans-impeach-joe-biden-2022
Direct Headline: Over Two-thirds of Republicans Think President Biden Should be Impeached if the GOP Retakes the House, According to New National UMass Amherst Poll
68% of Republicans and Trump voters and 66% of conservatives all would like to see the President charged by Congress for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, the formal criteria for impeachment laid out in the Constitution....
“The decision to impeach a president was once viewed as a last resort to reign in a president who pushed or broke through the boundaries of our laws, values and ethics....Today, impeachment is no longer a final option, but one of many weapons to be used in an era of rampant partisan polarization to gain an upper hand on one’s partisan opponents.....In the 2018 midterm, turnout was at its highest level since 1914 with close to 120 million Americans going to the polls....Our results suggest that the days of low voter turnout in midterm elections may be over with Americans on both sides of the partisan divide expressing excitement to vote in 2022 and expressing their belief that the results of the 2022 midterm will be important for the nation’s future.”.....Far and away, the poll finds that the economy is the top issue on voters’ minds. Nearly one-third of all respondents (32%), nearly half of Republicans (45%) and more than a third of independents (37%) tabbed the economy as their most important issue when making their candidate choice in the midterms. ....Meanwhile nearly identical proportions of Democrats cited the economy (22%), climate change (20%) and abortion (18%) as their top issue heading into this November’s election.
....“Democrats already face likely losses in Congress during the midterms, and if inflation doesn’t cool off soon those losses could be very serious....If the past is any indication, then President Biden and the Democratic Party will likely lose seats in the U.S. Congress if not total control of both the House and the Senate,”......
UMass May 13, 2022
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/over-two-thirds-republicans-think-president-biden-should-be-impeached-if-gop-retakes
Hunter Biden Laptop Emails Complete Archive
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/
*******
The Republican Party will likely take control of both the HOR and Senate in the 2022 Mid Terms. If that happens, I expect for sitting POTUS Joe Biden to be impeached.
While there is a long list of scandals and failures (pick one, they are all ugly), and while the economy/inflation will be the main trigger points to enrage the average working class American citizen, the practical legal pathway will likely be one of / some of:
1) The Border Crisis
2) The Disastrous Withdrawal From Afghanistan
3) Some Scandal Rooting From The Hunter Biden Laptop
4) COVID19 Response/Failure (This will include school lock downs, business lock downs, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, financial oversight incompetence/corruption/fraud, etc, etc)
Questions For Discussion:
A) WWYD / What Would You Do : If you were a member of the HOR or the Senate, what would your vote be for impeachment of Joe Biden?
B) If you would vote to impeach Joe Biden, specifically why? What would you consider as the most pressing issue? ( I'm going to ask the endless gaggle of lawyers here in the FBG forums to acknowledge that most people here are not in the legal game. Please do not run tribalist purity tests on "high crimes and misdemeanors" Let people have their say on this. )
C) If you would vote NOT to impeach Joe Biden, specifically why? What would you consider as the most pressing reasons to avoid impeachment for what you feel would be the most likely scandal presented forward? Or feel free to cover all of them.
D) For both types of respondents, where does "The Kamala Harris Factor" come into play? Will your view of the VPOTUS and her competence/incompetence or any other line of succession issue sway your decision at all?
E) If Biden is impeached after the Mid Terms, do you have a general opinion on the clear shift in how impeachment is being used in modern American politics?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.