November 1, 2019
By Alexander Nazaryan and Michael Isikoff
Washington — Even as House Democrats on Thursday (click here) ratified an impeachment resolution against President Trump, a federal judge has potentially slowed the brisk pace of the inquiry by declining to rule on whether a key witness needed to testify before the House of Representatives.
Instead, he gave all relevant parties several more weeks to prepare their arguments. That raised the prospect that public hearings on the president’s conduct could drag on into the Christmas holiday season, a scenario many in the Democratic leadership had once hoped to avoid.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has sought to make impeachment a quick, tightly controlled affair. On Friday, she told Bloomberg News that she expects public hearings to begin this month, though she added that there is still no fixed timetable and that the case against the president “has to be ironclad.”
The decision in question came in the chambers of Richard Leon, a judge in D.C. federal district court, in a case known as Kupperman v. House of Representatives....
Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Adam Schiff are ready to release transcripts beginning as early as next week. Both Pelosi and Schiff are aware of this case before Judge Richard Leon.
Speaker Pelosi said a very interesting thing.During her speech from the US House floor when speaking to the legislative body she stated, "There will be no more court proceedings." It raises questions about the efficacy of this case before Judge Leon. Will the US House withdraw from the case realizing they are moving forward with or without Kupperman or will the proceedings continue in anticipation of a decision of the case in the next few weeks while other evidence is introduced.
The US House Judiciary Committee may be interested in presenting their case even if the impeachment has already run its course. This is a matter of precedent with the Executive Branch stating it has grounds to stop Kupperman from giving testimony to the US House regarding impeachment. It appears to me while Mr. Kupperman is a human being and not recorded tapes, the verbal testimony falls under the same precedent as with Nixon. I am not a lawyer or a judge.
I was pleased to hear this from the reporting below from FOX News. I thank Judge Andrew Napolitano for addressing the essence of the problems Senate and House Republicans face regarding overwhelming evidence and personal conflicts with loyalty to the party. This is an adjustment they need to face to realize their oath is to the US Constitution and not the president.
In many, many ways this is a trial of the clarity of the oath of office and whether or not those words carry the brevity that they were meant to carry to protect the US Constitution and hence the USA as a country. No one is taking this lightly, even the US House took some time to struggle with these facts.
November 1, 2019
By Alexandra Hutzler
Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano (click here) said that the proof of President Donald Trump's potentially impeachable offenses is largely undisputed and that congressional Republicans have no credible line of defense to protect him.
Napolitano reflected on the ongoing impeachment probe in an editorial published by Fox News on Thursday. The judicial analyst warned Republicans to be "careful what they ask for" going forward because of the overwhelming evidence against the president.
"Their defense of the president has addressed process, not proof," Napolitano wrote. "The proof is largely undisputed, except by the president himself. It consists of admissions, testimony and documents, which show that Trump sought to induce the government of Ukraine to become involved in the 2020 presidential election."
He added that it's a "mouthful of facts to swallow in one bite, but the legal implications are straightforward and profound."...
