Is it time to talk about impeachment? No. Maybe? Is obstruction of justice an impeachable offense?
Is it time for CENSURE / REPRIMAND, I think it is. Censure President Trump is a reasonable course of action.
"Censure in the United States"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censure_in_the_United_States
"In the United States, governmental censure is done when a body's members wish to publicly reprimand the President of the United States, a member of Congress, a judge or a cabinet member. It is a formal statement of disapproval."
A President can be censured or chastised in some ways by Congress. America cannot subvert an election by impeachment.
"Censure - Presidential Censure"
http://law.jrank.org/pages/5095/Censure-Presidential-Censure.html
"Congress rarely acts against the president with a formal reprimand. ANDREW JACKSON was the first president to be thus reprimanded, by the Senate in 1834, after he removed the secretary of the treasury (a responsibility that Congress believed rested with the legislature). Jackson was a Democrat, but the Senate was controlled by the rival WHIG PARTY. Three years later, when the Democrats took control of the Senate, Jackson's censure was expunged from the records.
President JOHN TYLER was reprimanded in 1842 by the House of Representatives, which accused him of abusing his powers."
Read more: Censure - Presidential Censure - Senate, House, Congress, and Reprimanded - JRank Articles http://law.jrank.org/pages/5095/Censure-Presidential-Censure.html#ixzz4hKq4NVNF"
It is not surprising to see Fox News IGNORING the CONSTITUTIONAL crisis of Tweety behavior. Fox News is calmly gong ahead with routine news about removing Confederate Memorials and the fight against terror.
It is not surprising to see Fox News unable to find a single Republican to defend Tweety for his actions; it means the Republicans are at best upset with their President. But we all know Republicans need to do more than "be upset."
"What would happen if Donald Trump were impeached?" [It can only be done for APPROPRIATE reasons and ONLY if the majority of America supports it. Bad behavior and rudeness and mistakes are not impeachable offenses.]
The latest whirlwind of news about Trump, Comey and Russia has again stoked the chorus for impeachment. Here’s how it might happen
Tom McCarthy in New Your, 16 May 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/16/donald-trump-impeachment-russia-investigation-nixon
"What can a president be impeached for?
“Treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”, the constitution says. Needless to say, there’s debate over what all those terms mean.
Johnson was charged with breaking the law by removing the US secretary of war, which, in the aftermath of the civil war, was not his decision as president to make. Clinton was charged with obstruction of justice and with perjury, for allegedly lying under oath to a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Had Nixon not resigned, he might have been convicted in the Senate on one of three charges: obstruction of justice, abuse of power or defiance of subpoenas. In any case, Gerald Ford, who was Nixon’s vice-president and who succeeded him, pardoned Nixon of any crimes a month after Nixon resigned."
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"The 25th amendment describes a process by which a president may give away power owing to his or her own disability, and a separate process by which power may be taken from a president owing to disability or inability.
The key players in the second case are the vice-president and the top 15 members of the cabinet. If the former and a majority of the latter decide the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”, they submit that information in writing to the House speaker (currently Paul Ryan) and Senate president pro tempore (currently the Utah Republican senator Orrin Hatch) and just like that, the vice-president would be acting president."
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"Republicans had promised to impeach Hillary Clinton as soon as she took office. But what they might not have remembered is that two-thirds of the Senate is required to convict a president of impeachable offenses. The Democrats are in the minority, but they do have 48 Senate seats out of 100.
The most important factor for Republicans in deciding whether to go after Trump would seem to be the disposition of Republican voters. If the people turn on the president, Congress may follow."
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"Only two months into the Trump presidency, we’ve already heard warnings, issued by members of Congress, about this or that constitutional crisis being afoot: Trump impugns judges; Trump overrides legislated regulations; courts block executive actions. There are many opportunities for further constitutional crises during the Trump years, and a Trump refusal to go along with prospective impeachment proceedings is certainly easy to imagine. In which case: who controls the military?"
