Nemesis Juggernaut responds to crashfrog:
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Republicans will never allow it, no matter what crimes we know the President has committed.
Republicans or Democrats don't get to decide that. The Supreme Court does.
Incorrect. The court system does not get to go out and find cases to try. They have to be brought to them. And who is in charge of the prosecutorial side of things? That's right...the Executive branch.
Look at the contempt charges that are being brought against administration officials such as Miers and Rove. Even though the law explicitly states that the Justice Department
must start proceedings against them once Congress files the charges, the statement out of the Justice Department is that they won't; that they somehow have discretion in the matter.
Without anybody to prosecute the case, the courts will never have the opportunity to make a ruling on the issue.
And if we're talking about impeachment, that happens outside the courts. Impeachment of the President is ordered by the House and tried in the Senate. While the Chief Justice is present, he is there merely to keep order. The Court has no power to decide the case: The Senate is the one who decides whether or not the charges have been proven and to remove the President from office.
Thus, crashfrog's statement is entirely accurate: Any attempt to actually impose sanctions upon this administration have been and will be blocked by the Republicans. The Congressional Republicans would never vote articles of impeachment and the Senate Republicans would never vote to impeach. And the Republicans in the administration would never allow the Justice Department to fully investigate their own.
Why do you think the only outcome of the treasonous revealing of a CIA operative was a prosecution of perjury? It isn't that no crime was committed. It's that everybody involved obstructed the investigation. We never got anywhere near finding out how it happened.
And what happened then? The sentence was commuted. And I predict that Libby will eventually receive a full pardon.
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