That’s just fine.

It's all relative with these people. They would not hesitate to try to impeach a Democrat no matter whether it's their first term, in an election year. They impeached Clinton in a (Congressional) Election year. The execution of justice does not and should not rest on such arbitrary distinctions.

He didn't say they "can't," he said they shouldn't.
I realize that is how the rawstory link words it, but it completely distorts the facts, and we should leave that task to the GOP and FOX.

hell did this language or interpretation come from in that during an election year, that a president can't be impeached?

No such language anywhere.

Sounds like to me that this lawyer is trying to make law, and this should piss off conservatives, since they're the ones always crowing about people / jurists making law unto themselves interpreting the law(s) passed by Congress (of course in a manner that they didn't want the law interpreted).

Is that a bad toupee? Or just a bad dye-job? He reminds me of a televangelist... Ernest Angley

That's a ugly motherfucker...

Toupee for sure...

Dude doesn't need a hairpiece; he needs a paper sack...

... would they still wear them? Is looking stupid more important than being naturally bald?

Hopefully a balding person has a dear friend that can level with them.

Don't forget how the SCOTUS stopped a FL recount because W's "right" to win could be jeopardized if all the votes were counted.

by Congress. High crimes and misdemeanors has been the Idiot's trademark since he stepped foot into the WH.

Or is he an "illegitimate president," as President Carter said.

But then I'm a Democrat.
Using their logic, it's a matter of timing. But, Trump never stopped campaigning since day 1 of his first term. He certainly doesn't need time to get his message out to the voters.
So, how does this encumber him?
What's the down side?
Consider his trial as sort of pre-primary straw poll of 100 partisans.

We know Trump will be the Republican nominee, baring any strange, unforeseeable act of honor and integrity by the Republican Senators. It's just an embarrassing speed bump that his base will certainly overlook.
Trump will be the 2020 Republican candidate.
Pence might be gone, but Trump will remain.

It's the great, uncommitted middle of the electorate; the independents that are at stake here.
Trump can't win without the middle, so he needs a good old fashion exoneration by the Senate to cleanse the foul taste of impeachment from his palate.

Whining about removing him from office is just a way of looking for sympathy from the middle.
It sounds like sour grapes to me.

Patrick Phillips

"You can't impeach in an election year!!1!!"
"You can't pick a SCOTUS justice in and election year!!1!!"
"You can't investigate a POTUS in an election year!1!!"
"You can't have witnesses in an election year!!!!!1"

'No one shall fuck with a republican in an election year; Presidential, General, or Local'.

They must have hurried that amendment through when we were watching the hundreds of other dirty Trump dealings. I don't remember New York ratifying that amendment, but I guess with republicans there are shortcuts not available to Democrats. You can't take your eyes off these bastards for one second!

Jay is making shit up again. Any President can be impeached at any time for anything the Congress agrees is conduct unbecoming the office. But you all know this...

Besides, we are obligated to the 2018 election which mandated checks and balances. Check mate, impeach, remove and banish from all and any public office.

It was duly inserted by voter suppression, the Russians, the racist electoral college and the corrupt 'POP'.

Anybody remember this?

"At Least 50 Trump Electors Were Illegitimately Seated as Electoral College Members"
https://www.alternet.org/2017/01/least-50-trump-electors-were-illegitimately-seated-electoral-college-members/

It has stank of illegitimacy from the get go. Right down to the "supporters" read- paid actors at the bottom of that escalator...

Trump is as useless as wings on a rhinoceros.

As with an opening on SCOTUS, it all depends on who is in the WH. What passes for today's republican party is stupid and brainwashed. And scared shitless.