Democratic U.S Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan is calling for the impeachment of Trump over the case of the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Thanedar’s office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration’s “blatant disregard” for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a “direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution.”
“I’ve seen enough,” Thanedar said in a social media post on Thursday. “Trump is not abiding by a Supreme Court ruling. I fully support impeaching him. Now.”
I’ve said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard…
It’s just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It’s like the people who thought China paid the tariffs…
The house is almost tied. That’s who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents…
218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.
Let’s see, take New York for example.
26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.
5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.
People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn’t matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.
Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.
Apathetic morons who don’t realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.
District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.
Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state… Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.
So, if you think that your vote for president doesn’t matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you’re a fucking moron who can’t grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.
And don’t get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.
Every fucking vote counts.
And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we’ll keep getting the shit we deserve.
I don’t disagree with your conclusion but in this case it’s actually irrelevant. A simple majority in the house doesn’t mean shit for following through with an impeachment.
Weren’t you going to put him in jail years ago when you still had your precious ‘democracy’?
That was all for tv viewership.
He had been impeached twice already and still got away. Because your representatives all work for him and the oligarchs!
At this point, the only way for Americans to actually rid themselves of oligarchs is to have a revolution.
Shit. Don’t tell them the truth.
In the United States, impeachment is the first of two stages; an official may be impeached by a majority vote of the House, but conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires “the concurrence of two thirds of the members present”. Impeachment is analogous to an indictment.1
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it’s worth doing just to tie the admin up for a bit and send trump golfing for a week
Even before the supreme court he has been ignoring law with flimsy “logic” on why he can do it. Ignoring congressional laws and court orders are more than enough reason.
34 felony convictions…
Yes, I’m sure the -already- twice impeached TurdNugget will deffo give up everything this time.
Maybe he’ll also insist that all the open and shut trials of the treason stuff he pulled last time will be rushed through to court as well!!
I call for Trump to be sent to prison in El Salvador but I’ll settle for him being removed from office
I don’t think we should create arbitrary punishments for him. He is subject to due process and the maximum punishment prescribed by law. Just the same as anyone else in this country.
Charge his ass with Treason and give him the maximum punishment.
That’s death, and even more unrealistic than an undetermined amount of time in jail.
Not if Americans nut up.
…if it was good enough for the rosenbergs, it’s good enough for the trumps…
I agree but until we fully go the way of the French Revolution that’s unlikely happen.
I’d settle for him being deported and ostracized from all countries.
It’d be very curious if there was literally no country on the planet that permitted him entry. I was about to say Russia, but he’s only been useful as a pawn in the US to them.
I hear Antarctica is warming up, we can send him there.
The penguins will tariff him up.
I vote we send him to an uninhabited island he threw tariffs on. The penguins won’t be happy but he’s gotta go somewhere.
They already have enough of a rape problem…
too bad that calling for it is just wishful thinking. maybe we should band together to DO the things we wish for.
They finally picked something from the pile to impeach him over? Not DOGE, not threatening to invade our neighbors, not the whipsawing of the market thanks to his tariff games, or any of the rest?
They need to pick something both the court and some gop will go for. Stripping power from Congress and the judiciary branches would normally seem like a slam dunk but here we are. They have to choose battles they have a chance of winning.
Let’s have one that sticks… Involving how he has ignored following anything in the Constitution
Yes. I would say this falls in the “high crime or misdemeanor” category.
This is insane
Not only that, it’s entirely unprofessional for official statement to be this childish fuckery. In my entire lifetime, I’ve not seen anything more unprofessional than this to be jeeted out in the world by official government account. Never.
Oh the other hand, we’ve seen what happens when regimes get “professional” about sending undesirables to death camps.
This admin is a joke and an embarrassment. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so terrifying.
I keep wondering why should I or anyone else have to learn to behave professionally when you can behave like Trump and be given one of the most important jobs in the world
if we want to retain our norms, then we need to establish a norm that assures that such callousness and cruelty is sure to trigger being drug into the streets
It‘s because you serve the silo.
Even the onion wouldn’t dare to joke about such hatred and cruelty. Absolutely sickening administration
That’s because you have to have a sense of humour to joke.
This administration isn’t joking. They just have a high enough ladder to have everyone see how blatantly racist and disgusting they are
What the actual fuck
It seems that the Supreme Court agrees (except Alito and Thomas of course).
I mean generally agrees; let’s see what follows.
However horrible these past months have been, they certainly havn’t been boring.
So let’s say…somehow…every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?
Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I’m not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn’t a white male.
What should the Democrats be doing then?
Even if that happened, you’d just end up with Vance as president. If you somehow remove both Trump and Vance, you get Mike Johnson. The US has effectively no mechanism to force new elections - in Westminster style parliament, a majority ‘no’ vote on certain legislation (i.e. budget) immediately triggers dissolution of parliament and an election must happen. A party can also call a vote of no-confidence, which will do the same thing if it passes.
There’s also another “oh shit” button that can be pushed for those of us still beholden to the Crown, which is King Charles can mandate the dissolution of government unilaterally, which actually happened once in Australia.
But the downside is that technically, regardless of what mechanism would trigger the dissolution of parliament, this has to be requested to and accepted by the King, who then sends out Writs of Electors
Of course in practice this is a rubber stamp tradition with no chance of not happening - if Charles went mad and tried to prevent this we would likely still have an election just with a side order of constitutional crisis and a wave of republicanism
But it’s still dumb
Politicians try to stay at the head of the parade. They only go where we force them to go. Are you going to give up already? Cuz that’s exactly what the fascists would prefer.
This is Lemmy. Of course they want to give up to the authoritarians. That’s been the steady drumbeat of this community for as long as it’s been big enough to be classified as a community. They’ll sometimes post about guillotines or green Mario because they know that those will never translate into action, but whenever the possibility of something actually being done comes up the chorus of defeatism becomes deafening.
Impeach the entire admin before the people get ahold of them.
For their own protection.
Nah, I say let them face the people.
Before we start buying kits that assemble together: a large blade, two tall posts, some rope, and a basket. Of course the actual apparatus will need more support beams and other accessories but you get the idea.
That’s a lot of work when a bullet will do.
True, but I can’t help but picture the impact politicians and billionaires would feel seeing their kind being handled like that.
oh, if you want to establish an effective visual that will serve as a long-lasting reminder to future ambitious sociopaths, film one of these sub-humans getting fed feet first into a chipper shredder and make it mandatory viewing.
