Presumptuous Expectations and Inequitable Reasoning, ‘Congressman’ John Cornyn

If it is a good idea to impeach and try former presidents, what about former Democratic presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022? Think about it and let’s do what is best for the country. Senator John Cornyn – 2021

Reading beyond the Report by Reuters, it would appear that most of the World’s mainstream Media have assumed your Comment quoted in the Indent above as a "Threat", Senator John Cornyn. I am not certain that strongarm Tactics are your Intention. I think your Comment is meant to prompt thinking on whether or not an Ex-President of the United States of America (USA/US) can be impeached and tried just as stated in the opening Words of the Comment. 

However, I believe I know why it makes Sense for mainstream Media to conclude that you are waving the big Stick of a future Grand Old Party (GOP) - another Identity of the Republican Party - congressional Majority impeaching past Democratic Presidents with your “when Republicans get the majority in 2022.” It does seem as though you are seeking to bully the Democratic Party into desisting from prosecuting Republican 45th President Donald J. Trump Sr in the Senate. Since your Comment does not make the Distinction between (i) Impeachment and (ii) Trial further to Impeachment, the Media would feel that there is no other Reading to your Comment than as as Threat. 

First, you got it wrong in implying that the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump Sr is unlawful. The US House of Representatives did not impeach a “former President.” Trump Sr was an incumbent President when impeached and the Impeachment is consonant with Article I, section 3 (I:3) of the Constitution of the US. As a ‘Congressman' you should be familiar with the Separation of Responsibilities and the Effects of that Division between the two Chambers of Congress; the House of Representatives, and the Senate. In particular, as a Senator, you must know that only the House can impeach, that is, file Charges ('Article(s) of Impeachment') reference Article I, Section 2 (I:2) and then prosecute the Impeachment. The Senate tries Impeachments, and again this is particular to that Chamber with the Authority in Article I:3. The Senate is the Court. If this ‘Division of Labor’, so to speak, is not clear in your Mind with your ca 19 Years in Congress, how can it be grasped by the ordinary US Citizen? Can you now understand why the ‘American’ Public is easily misled? They take the Words of Federal Legislators, like yourself, as Gospel depending on which Side of any Argument they are on. 

Second, impeaching Trump Sr was not solely decided upon by Democratic 'Congresspersons'. Republican Representatives joined them. This two-Party Decisionmaking, as you well know, is what we call 'bipartisanship'.  Again, your singling out the Democrats for Censure is self-deceiving and plurally-dishonest. It is kind of vindictive insofar as it concerns the Democrats.

Three, your Idea of “let’s do what is best for the country” presupposes the Absolution of Trump Sr from Culpability for (a) impugning his clear and evidenced 2020 presidential Election Defeat, (b) debasing the Constitution in denying his Rejection by ‘the People’ and (c) inciting an Insurrection with the Intention to overturn the Election Results of his Loss. 

The Fact that none of the democratic Presidents alive today committed any or all three of the above noted Faithlessness to the ‘American People’, to the ‘American Republic’ and to the ‘American’ Constitution does not matter to you Senator Cornyn, or to that Dimwit at Fox News Television whose Name I cannot be bothered to recollect. He is so crass. If the World’s Media are right and I am wrong that your Remarks tantamount to Intimidation, Congressperson Cornyn, you are now the One evidently being malicious and vengeful over the Senate’s Desire to sit in Trial over Trump Sr for his abortive Usurpation of the constitutionally-elected Presidency of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

The Processes of ‘constitutionally-elected’ go like the following. (1) Elections are held in each State to determine the President and Vice President of Choice through the Electors voted for. (2) The Votes of ‘the People’ are certified by the individual States and ergo translated into Electoral College Votes. Once these Procedures are completed, the States no longer have Right over those Votes and cannot interfere with them. No constitutional Dispensation exists hence for the Votes to be challenged. The Votes now have Legal Protection, ipso facto. (3) These Electoral College Votes are then submitted at the Electoral College and are recorded. (4) The Electoral College Votes go to Congress for counting, period. Their Legal Protection is sui generis. They cannot be discarded, in part or whole, by Congress in Sitting to count the Votes unless there is factual Evidence – not wishful thinking as we witnessed with most congressional Republicans tripling over their Feet in Worship of Trump Sr – that the Votes of ‘the People’ were compromised at the Stage of balloting and/or collating before Certification by the States. 

Despite the foregoing Realities of the constitutionally-elected, you Congressperson Cornyn, aided and abetted Donald J. Trump Sr’s impeachable and criminal Drives to subvert those Realities. Thus, if the Media have correctly interpreted you, you are the One now wielding the Irrationality of Impeachment and Trial against “former presidents” from the Democratic Party with your arrogant Presumption of a Republican Party “Majority in 2022.” This is kindergarten Politics in two Manners; (1) the Inability to think Matters through in multi-Perspectives, and (2) the Hubris of believing you would win a Struggle with an Opponent whose Strength you actually do not know.  

Since we are in the Realm of Presumptions, let me make some of mine. What if ‘the People’ - Democrats and Republicans - do not forget the Insurrection incited by Donald J.  Trump Sr? What if ‘the People’ - Democrats and Republicans - remember the Part you, Congressperson Cornyn, played in denouncing the presidential Election of 2020 and ergo encouraging Trump Sr’s Insurrection? What if ‘the People’ - Democrats and Republicans - occupy their Minds with Republican federal Legislators and their Attempt to steal the Presidency from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in complete Dearth of Understanding of the Constitution? What if ‘the People’ - Democrats and Republicans - decide not to vote for any of the Republican federal Legislators who supported Trump Sr’s Disregard for the Votes of ‘the People’ and his dividing of the ‘American People’ along Race Lines and his devaluation of the ‘American’ Constitution? In short, what if, Senator Cornyn, your current Term is your last ever for ‘the People’ to trust you to represent their best Interests? Heard of Jackson Reffitt of Texas who informed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) of his Father’s Participation in Trump’s Insurrection of 6 January 2021? There are more like him, thankfully. 

Let me clarify two Things for you and Others like you devoted to Donald J. Trump Sr. (I) Not all Occidentals (‘Whites’) are racist. I am sure you will find this hard to believe even though you witness Confirmation of it everyday. Are you not the same Person who doubted the Veracity of the Election Trump Sr lost notwithstanding that you, Senator Cornyn, and the Rest of your Gang, including Trump Sr never presented to yourselves or the Courts or the Public any factual Evidence to back up your Allegations of Election Fraud? Racists are really of 'low-cognitive complexity' stuck in Human evolutionary backwaters sustained by their distorted proprietary Claim to Territory and attendant primordial Instincts for Violence. Look around you at Events and you will find Confirmation. (II) ‘The People’ are the 81 Million who voted for Joe Biden not the 74 Million who did for Trump. Simple deductive reasoning or rather basic Understanding that between two Sets of Collections, the larger Collection is the ‘Majority’. 

As an Aside, Congressperson Cornyn, I would like you to ask yourself how the following Characteristics of your Republican Party square with your "let’s do what is best for the country." Why is it that it is always within the Republican Party that we encounter Agents, Officials and Politicians calling for Opponents to be killed? Why is it that it is with the GOP you find Supporters insisting that making Decisions in Conscience should be subordinated to Party Loyalty? Why a Republican President with the Audacity to lean with clearly criminal Intention on a Republican State of the Union to steal Votes for him so that he could claim Victory that 'the People' did not give him? You really do need to sensibly appraise "what is best for the country." 

I have been writing of the Illegality of the Senate Trial of Trump’s Impeachment and have copied Congress into these.1 I am pretty sure you saw my Observations before you began your Remonstrations. The Impeachment was not unlawful not because I called for it prior to it being advocated by the House.2 It is lawful in the Fact of Trump Sr being President at the time. Trump Sr’s Trial by the Senate is justified, as it is right in the ordinary Sense, but unjustifiable, since it is untenable in Line with the Constitution. He is no longer President. Is some Rationality there enough to recognize the Distinction, Senator Cornyn? I have noticed that 'Congressman' Rand Paul too, who happens to be one of those Republican federal Senators with their Brains missing, is unable to appreciate this Difference. Note also that I suspected Trump Sr’s Treason was in the Offing and I tweeted about this to engender preventive Acton.3

Let me now turn my Attention to Congressperson Mitt Romney, I know you mean well for the ‘American Republic’ and the ‘American’ People, Senator Romney. You are a Republican, but I am yet to observe you partisan. You are absolutely dignified in acknowledging that Trump Sr committed an impeachable Offence. He has already been impeached. Article I:2 is unambiguous. There is nothing in it that instructs an Impeachment must be tried. The Impeachment, by its very Fact, is Condemnation. In the Language of Article I:3, Impeachment is clearly self-standing: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” An Impeachment is a Charge, an Indictment as well as Criticism. Expecting it to be tried necessarily is not paying Attention to Articles I:2 and I:3 understood in Unison, but imposing the Expectations of the ordinary criminal Indictment-cum-necessary Prosecution on the Misconduct of the President. 

It is Donald J. Trump Sr’s sad Destiny that he is not just the only President of the ‘American Republic’ impeached twice but who also because of the Circumstances of his second Impeachment does not have Right under the Constitution to Senate Trial. The Insistence by the House to subject him to that Trial is actually extending to him Privilege that the Constitution does not grant in the Environment of his second Impeachment. This is 'an Olive Branch' he does not deserve. The House is giving him the Opportunity to redeem himself when he is acquitted which he will be. The Senate is not a Court of Impartiality. It is a Congregation of political Self-Interests, of Party Loyalty, of Unreason, of immature Sentimentalities, of populist Intimidation, et cetera. The Framers of the Constitution whatever their Reason(s) at the Time and however they were right at the Time did not intend a President to be removed from Office by the Senate otherwise they would not have required in Article I:3 that 

no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present

Note that the Constitution does not say "two thirds" of the Senate, as the 'American' Public has been misinformed and misled by Legislators and the Media, but "two thirds" of those in Attendance. Nevertheless, if those who devised the Constitution wanted the President dislodged from Office by the Senate, they would have instructed a 'simple Majority'. As for Donald J. Trump Sr, it is his Fate to destroy the Sanctity of 'American' political Beliefs and who was bent on usurping duly elected Presidency by whichever Means possible; Lies, unintelligent Litigation then finally Insurrection. 

You have advised, Senator Romney, that 

If [we] look at the preponderance of the legal opinion by scholars over the years … the preponderance of opinion is that yes, an impeachment trial is appropriate after someone leaves office

I do not believe this Opinion is sound. Those Scholars have imposed their Preference on the Intention of Article I:3. This Preference is not sensible. There are two essential Sanctions - Purposes - of the Impeachment Trial. One is to remove the impeached President immediately from Office. The other is to ban that President for Life from again occupying Public Office. These two Sanctions go hand in hand. There is not one without the other. Once a President leaves Office, the Impeachment Trial becomes redundant. Importantly, as I have argued in previous writing these two Sanctions are not severally or collectively punishment. They are at most damning, Opprobrium.4 Should you be rewarding Donald J. Trump for his Treachery to his Country and Oath of Office with this Senate Trial that will invalidate his Impeachment when the Trial acquits him as we know it will? You will be building his Stock high. For my Benefit, Senator Romney, would you ask your Office to send me – through my Twitter Account – the Sources (Citations) of the Opinion you referred?

We now know that Senator Patrick Leahy – President Pro Tempore of the Senate – will chair the Senate Trial of Trump’s Impeachment. This Development vindicates my Position that this Senate Trial is unconstitutional. Let us revisit what Article I:3 says about what Position chairs the Impeachment Trial of a President 

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. ... When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside …

Congressperson Leahy presiding over the Trial of Trump Sr, ergo, tells us two Things. One; the Senate itself recognizes that it is not trying a President or authorised to try a former President hence it would be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the US chairing. Two, Senator Leahy presiding over the Trial presumes that the Chief Justice is disagreeable that the Trial is lawful. From my Writings – Blogs and Tweets – those who have cared to read them know that I do not even like Donald J. Trump Sr. He is an abominable Person and a most deficient Incumbent of the Office of President of the US. The Quality that I have and which I am very proud of, is that I possess Integrity. I do not take Sides. I tell Things as they are.

The best Way now to deal with Trump’s failed Insurrection is for the Department of Justice (DoJ) severally with the District of Columbia (D.C) to indict him for treasonable Felony and associated Matters. Others Jurisdictions so affected can follow suit. This is the only correct Course under Article I:3. 

Endnotes

1https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1348628606059208704?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1348760690232864776?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1352354140777832452?s=19 

2https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1346930348840644612?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1348461086828331008?s=19 

3https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1328719729763250185?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1339995255333138435?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1346118316314783749?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1346368438361587713?s=19 and https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1346368572252184576?s=19 

4https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1351005372111269892?s=19

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