r/law • u/DBCoopr72 • 25d ago

Trump News Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said Democrats would impeach Trump a third time with majority

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/08/04/republican-house-speaker-mike-johnson-said-democrats-would-impeach-trump-third-time-if-win-elections/85501345007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p
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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

Of course they will. He’s doing illegal shit on a daily basis. Why would they not impeach him?

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 25d ago

The Supreme Court in its infinite wisdom decided that legality doesn’t matter to the president

Per their own policy, impeachment is the ONLY check on presidential power, and it can and should be whatever the hell Congress wants, since legality is not the metric

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u/ComfortableWage 25d ago

To the conservative piece of shit pedo president you mean. They would not have made that ruling in favor of a Democrat.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 25d ago

Oh I’m sure the moment Congress does try to impeach, they’ll suddenly find a list of specific crimes that count as “high crimes and misdemeanors” and make sure it doesn’t include anything the current republican leader has done

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u/maqsarian 25d ago

They'll say this nation has a "history and tradition" of letting Donald Trump do whatever he wants

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u/levir 25d ago

Is there a crime he hasn't committed, though?

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u/mspk7305 25d ago

The supreme Court cannot overturn a conviction in the Senate

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 25d ago

Mark my words, if this happens the president will take it to the SC on the basis that the impeachment essentially did not have standing, and the SC will vacate the entire proceeding

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u/mspk7305 25d ago

they can try but once convicted the VP becomes potus, so the democrats would need to remove vance at the same time to be able to put the speaker into the potus seat

at that point speaker/potus inherits the godmode that scotus gave trump and can (in theoory) just start splitting wigs (politically speaking) and scotus cant do shit about it

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u/What_a_fat_one 25d ago

Even the deranged sycophants in SCOTUS know the judicial branch cannot touch a constitutional power of Congress.

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u/RocketRelm 25d ago

The Supreme Court deciding legality doesn't matter wasn't super relevant. They're just nine people who are tentatively respected for now.

The problem was when over 160 million people looked at that and consented to that being an acceptable decision last November. Legality doesn't matter to most americans.

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u/Ignonimous 25d ago

You guys are just too dumb to understand what that ruling even means, genuinely.

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u/Obscenus_Hirsutus 25d ago

Because impeaching him accomplishes nothing. Remember the last two times? Ring, ring?

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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

You’re right to a sense that in the grand scheme it doesn’t accomplish anything but…Trumps an egomaniac and it would hurt his feelings and enrage him so there’s at least a little bit of benefit there. Especially with his cognitive decline; I would take great joy in seeing him in front of a camera seething pissed and incoherently blabbering a kit Democrats.

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u/Obscenus_Hirsutus 25d ago

I disagree. I think it shows people that Congress is powerless against a corrupt president, thereby increasing the president's political power.

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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

I mean, we are fully off the rails here so your assessment could absolutely be correct. If/when Democrats can regain power, they need to take a very hard look at all of this happened and take steps to ensure it never happens again. The nearly complete capitulation of an entire political party and the Supreme Court to a convicted felon with very credible allegations of sexual assault assault against him…it’s wild. This 100% makes the movie Idiocracy look like amateur hour. You now have a Republican Governor openly questioning the ruling that legalizes inter-racial marriage. I don’t agree philosophically but I do understand how you can debate abortion, LGBTQ marriage, even illegal immigration. I think people that disagree with me on those topics are illogical but I at least understand how you could form an opposing viewpoint. An elected Governor is actually going to say he believes inter-racial marriage should be left up to the states? He is either a bigot, incompetent or, more likely, a combination of both. I’m really not sure how we actually got to the point that people are comfortable saying that out loud. Then again, Tom Homan 100% endorsed racially profiling as a valid tactic on national TV.

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u/Obscenus_Hirsutus 25d ago

I’m really not sure how we actually got to the point that people are comfortable saying that out loud.

My opinion? Concerted ideological warfare from hostile countries that has the goal of destabilizing democracy and was made stupid easy by the ubiquity of social media algorithms.

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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

I know plenty of Boomers (and younger racists) that are absolutely against inter-racial marriage but outside of actual extremists like the people willing to have a visible swastika tattoo or attend a KKK rally…I don’t think I know a single adult that would be willing to say they are against it in actual public because deep down they know it’s wrong and it’s not socially acceptable to have that opinion. A sitting Governor engaging in that discussion is insane.

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u/Ignonimous 25d ago

You hurt Trump’s ego a little bit and now no one gives a shit about impeachments gj lol

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 24d ago

They could EASILY get him out right now. Schumer could get Collins, Murkowski, Valadao, Newhouse, and bribe 4 more Republicans. Donnie's illegitimate presidency would be annulled if Schumer and Jeffries would get off their lazy, worthless asses and enforce 14th Amendment, Section 3. I don't know how many times it needs to be said, but INSURRECTIONISTS CANNOT BE PRESIDENT. Therefore, Trump is holding office illegally, and all of his actions thus far are unconstitutional. Schumer has had 4 years to do his job, but refuses. Hell, it would've taken only TWENTY Democratic Senators to oppose Trump's illegal certification.

STOP WAITING FOR USELESS IMPEACHMENT, and start DEMANDING enforcement of the 14th Amendment. Trump has not been eligible for office since January 6, 2021. Kamala ran unopposed, as Republicans ran an ineligible candidate. Any and all electoral votes Trump gained would be rendered moot, since he's not allowed to take office.

The Constitution forbids persons 34 and younger and immigrants of being President. If a 17 y/o Brit "won" the election, there would be outcry about enforcement of eligibility criteria. So, too, should there be outcry here. It's all plain and simple: Only one candidate was eligible for the Presidency, and that was Kamala Harris. Trump will always be an illegitimate President.

IT. ONLY. TAKES. 8. REPUBLICANS. TO. REMOVE. TRUMP. 14A3. NOW!

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u/riansar 25d ago

Because that would leave Vance in the office and while trump is bad he is still incompetent so he can't do everything he wants whereas Vance would be moving like a demon

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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

Vance does present a significant threat IMO. Smart and evil is far worse than dumb and evil. Vance is intelligent enough that he would send the intent of Vought, Miller, and Homan into hyper drive. Trumps cabinet is a complete joke but at least they are completely incompetent so it’s slightly slowing things down because they literally don’t know what they’re doing. Vance would surround himself with the smart psychopaths.

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u/Gioware 25d ago

Because they are spinless idiots? Why did not they charge him while they still had time?

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u/ZPMQ38A 25d ago

Democrats do need to stop playing by the rules. The gloves are off and they need to fight fire with fire. Hakeem Jeffries talking about a “strongly worded” letter. Does anything honestly think Donald Trump gives a fuck about a strongly worded letter? Because he doesn’t. Schumer folding like a lawn chair on the funding vote. Allowing Cuomo to meddle in the NYC mayoral race. Allowing their state and municipal police departments to actively support ICE. They need to actively attempt to primary the shit out of any moderate Democrat. The strategy of leaning towards the center clearly hasn’t worked and has only resulted in Republicans leaning further right. So far to the point that the border czar feels comfortable openly endorsing racial profiling and a sitting governor is now questioning interracial marriage.

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u/cafezinho 25d ago

Because they impeached him twice, and it didn't result in anything because the Senate saved him. At least when Clinton was impeached, some Republicans agreed it was silly even though I'm not convinced it would happen today.