Today the United States House of Representatives will vote
on the Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump and will almost certainly
approve them by a party line vote with a couple of dissenting Democrats, one of
whom has announced he’s switching parties. There’s discussion of making Justin
Amash (Independent – MI), who was a Republican until he announced support for impeachment,
one of the managers of the Senate trial, if this was a Law & Order episode
he’d be an assistant District Attorney. Members of the Senate will be jurors,
the judge will be Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Jury member Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-TN)
has publicly stated that he is coordinating with the Donald Trump as to how the
Senate trial will be handled even though doing so violates his oath as a juror
in the trial held in the Senate. If you made such a statement after being
selected as a juror member you’d be booted off the jury and possibly jailed for
contempt of court. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has made similar statements. Both
men would recuse themselves of if they had any integrity. Trump has been
complaining about fairness since the impeachment inquiry began yet he seems
uninterested in a fair trial as he’s quite happily been sending campaign
donations to Senate Republicans who commit to supporting him in the impeachment
trial. In any other trial that would be seen as bribing a juror.
Now that the House is about done with its part of impeaching
Trump it’s time to address other serious matters. No, it’s not that the House
hasn’t gotten anything else done as there are over 270 bills passed by the
House that Mitch McConnell hasn’t allowed to see the light of day in the
Senate. The next important job is to impeach Attorney General William Barr for
obstruction of Congress, abuse of power and failing to faithfully execute his
office.
Barr has held the office for 10 months and during that time
he has made it clear that he serves the interests of Donald Trump rather than
those of the United States. He misled Congress and the people of the United
States through his words and deeds when the Mueller report was made public. He
is implicated in the Ukraine scandal over Trump trading military aid and a
White House visit for an investigation into a possible 2020 election opponent
due to having withheld the whistleblower complaint from Congress. Barr
criticized the conclusion of his own department's inspector general who
reported that the FBI had a legitimate basis for launching an investigation
into Russian interference in our 2016 election and the possibility that the
Trump campaign was involved. In addition, Barr has defied congressional
subpoenas regarding the 2020 census and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's claims
that a citizenship status question was added at the request of the Department
of Justice. The Supreme Court has determined that the justifications for the
question offered by the DOJ were contrived and made up after the fact in order
to conceal the real reason.
Through his actions Attorney General Barr has politicized
the Department of Justice and undermined trust in the law by acting in the
interests of a president who has committed impeachable offenses instead of
upholding his oath of office and the Constitution of the United States,
therefore he should be impeached and removed from office.
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