Title: Judge Napolitano: Enough Evidence 'To Justify About Three or Four Articles of Impeachment' Source:
Reason URL Source:https://reason.com/video/judge-napo ... -four-articles-of-impeachment/ Published:Nov 23, 2019 Author:Nick Gillespie Post Date:2019-11-23 14:45:40 by hondo68 Keywords:Drain The Swamp, Republican, Democrat, Crime Syndicate Views:310 Comments:5
“The evidence of his impeachable behavior at this point, in my view, is overwhelming," says the Fox News analyst.
"The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have unearthed enough evidence, in my opinion, to justify about three or four articles of impeachment against the president," Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano tells Reason in a wide-ranging interview.
The allegations are not "enough to convict [the president] of bribery" in a court of law, Napolitano says, "but it's enough to allege it for the purpose of impeachment" since impeachment is "not legal [but] political." The former New Jersey Superior Court judge adds that while he thinks impeachment is "absolutely constitutional," it is also "probably morally unjust." Besides bribery, he lays out four more likely articles that he thinks House Democrats will bring against Trump.
"The second charge will be high crimes and misdemeanors, election law violation," says Napolitano. "The third crime will be obstruction of justice. The fourth will be interference with a witness and the fifth may be lying under oath."
"The evidence of his impeachable behavior at this point, in my view, is overwhelming," he adds.
In two decades at the nation's largest cable network, Napolitano has provided an unapologetically libertarian critique of state power regardless of the party holding control in the nation's capital. In the past several months, he has emerged as one of Trump's harshest critics, claiming back in May that the Mueller Report demonstrated that the president had clearly obstructed justice.
Though he thinks the recent House hearings provide grounds for impeachment, the judge finds it unlikely that the Republican-controlled Senate will vote to remove the president—and that the bigger problem is the way federal government continues to arrogate power to itself.
"No American president in the post–Woodrow Wilson era has stayed within the confines of the Constitution," says Napolitano. "And each president has more authority than his predecessors, for the simple reason that Democratic Congresses give power to Democratic presidents and Republican Congresses give power to Republican presidents. That power stays in the presidency. So Donald Trump actually has more authority than Barack Obama did, who had more authority than George W. Bush did, etc."
Napolitano argues that the federal government stays in power by "bribing" states and individuals with giveaways. The result, he says, is unsustainable debt that will ultimately undermine the economy and with it, social order. "The decline of certain types of cultural gatekeepers that said no [to] certain lifestyles obviously is liberating," notes Napolitano. "But the same technology which lets me put the works of Thomas Aquinas in my pocket also lets the government follow me wherever I go and record whatever conversation I have with Gillespie or whoever I'm talking to, the Constitution be damned."
LOL! For some reason he's gone wacky on us. Every PEZident starts committing crimes on arrival in the Oval Office. It's a criminal enterprise. At the very least they're guilty of mass misprision.
USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Fire, aim. He'd have been on target if he pointed out that the Democrats have been behaving like a cop on a warrant-less fishing expedition, first following you until they find a pretext to pull you over, then bringing in the dogs for a false positive excuse to ransack your car and abuse your person.
Mean while the George Soros media continues to ignore the real criminals in the Ukraine corruption - Creepy Joe and his Punk Son Hunter - many others feed from the same trough