The President and the Pandemic

  This is the moment of truth and reckoning for the Democrats' leadership House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has acted wisely in not immediately transmitting the Trump articles of impeachment to the Senate to jump start the President’s trial. Her stated reasons at her weekly  press conference  however are certain to only produce more confrontation between Democrats and Republicans: “I – just to get this off the table right away, if we impeach the President immediately, everybody moves on to the next thing.  The next thing for us will be when we see the process that is set forth in the Senate, then we’ll know the number of managers that we may have to go forward, and who we would choose.  That’s what I said last night.  That’s what I’m saying now.” Pelosi will be waiting a long time. She is in no position to dictate how the Senate conducts the trial. The Senate will not do anything until the impeachment articles are delivered to the Senate. Pelosi was doing nothing ...

Hopefully some sanity will prevail to prevent a partisan impeachment vote going ahead that can only divide the country that is so much in need of healing The Democrats push to impeach President Trump is seriously tainted by the fact that Trump’s phone call to President Zelensky on July 25,  2019 was authorised and permitted under  The Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. Despite four eminent law Professors giving evidence for over eight hours to the House Judiciary Committee—not one Committee Member—Democrat or Republican—with their staffs of highly paid advisors sitting behind them—thought of asking any of those law Professors one very pertinent question: Have you considered whether  “The Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters”  (Treaty)—ratified by the Senate on October 18, 2000—has any relevance to the impeachment proceedings or acts a...

  Pelosi will discover that legal absolution won’t save her from eternal political damnation for betraying the American people’s trust Nancy Pelosi faces personal ignominy and direct responsibility for the annihilation of the Democrats—if a highly partisan vote in the Democrat-controlled House impeaches President Trump—following similar highly partisan votes in the House Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee headed by Democrats Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler respectively. Pelosi  warned against   such highly partisan impeachment proceedings last March: “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country,” Pelosi was reiterating Nadler’s  identical position  expressed on 10 December 1998: “The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters as expressed in a national election. We must not overtu...

  The FBI’s outrageous conduct in collecting Trump campaign emails and maybe other communications using improperly-obtained FISA warrants needs to be thoroughly investigated by John Durham Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report raises the suspicion that the Obama-Biden White House, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Glenn Simpson could well have been receiving information from the FBI in relation to the Trump election campaign from the date the FBI opened an individual file on Carter Page in August 2016 until President Trump was sworn in as President on 20 January 2017 - and perhaps well beyond that until 20 September 2017. Obama and Biden were President and Vice-President respectively until 19 January 2017, whilst Hillary Clinton and the DNC had – through Perkins Coie lawyers - paid for the infamous Steele Dossier prepared by Russian sources engaged by Christopher Steele who was in turn hired by Glenn Simpson. Horowitz established the Dossier was fal...

  The American people deserve the learned Professors' responses Distinguished Professors of Law - Professor Noah Feldman from Harvard Law School, Professor Pamela Karlan from Stamford Law School, Professor Michael J. Gerhardt from the University of North Carolina School of Law and Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School – were given an easy ride by the House Judiciary Committee on 4 December. These four legal luminaries spent over 8 hours answering questions from Committee members on whether impeachable offences had been committed by President Trump. They were, however, not asked the following highly relevant questions: Have you considered whether  “The Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters”  (Treaty) - ratified by the Senate on 18 October 2000 – has any relevance to the impeachment proceedings or acts as exculpatory evidence to legitimize the President’s phone call on ...