This will totally work.

And yes, I know its bait.

He has avoided impeachments with way better justifications, but sure, go ahead.

Which the Democrats should absolutely fucking do regardless of whether The Republicans will vote to convict, which of course they won’t, but the point is, we can’t just sit back and do nothing. We have to at least show that we’re willing to take the steps that are necessary to dissent.

I wish I still lived in the fantasy world where this was plausible.

That ship has sailed decades ago. The US hasn't been officially at war since 1945, and the congress has for all intents and purposes gave up on that power.

Trump has already been impeached.

Twice.

The last time he was president.

It doesn't matter anymore.

The cop at the protest yawns, unslings his 40mm LMT™ weapon, loads another rubber bullet into it, looks around the crowd for another reporter, aims, and shoots her in the head.

Idealistic youngling: "Wow, that cop just shot a woman in the head with a rubber bullet, he could totally be charged for that!"

I remember all it took was some jizz...

Oh, you mean like how he was impeached in his first term in office and nothing changed?

Yeah lets impeach the already twice impeached president, surely third times the charm... right guys ?

/s

In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity.

It's what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.

This is sadly likely the least impeachable thing he's done in office.

Only impeachment that will matter is a vigilante with better aim

Remove Trump now!

I see two outcomes:

• Congress introduces articles
• Impeached, but fails ratification in senate

or

• Congress introduces articles
• Some terrible tragedy befalls us or Israel
• Articles fail and congress backs the war full-throated

There is no version of this that ends in removal, and even impeachment wouldn't be anything more than performative outrage.

The majority of sitting representatives have been waiting for an acceptable excuse to bomb Iran for decades. The only objection any of them have is doing so without manufacturing consent from voters first, but we've already seen how this plays out with Afghanistan. They'll drum up dubious evidence of WMD's and launch their entry, and then spend 20 years trying to 'get out' while securing Iran's material resources on the way.

The only difference this time is that Iran has almost 5x the population and 100x the GDP of Afghanistan in 2001, plus an actual organized military base with proper advanced weapons manufacturing. There's a reason we've waited this long to actually do this, and it isn't because we were busy doing other things. It's because this isn't a war we can win without pulling everyone else into it (or at the very least without isolating them from global trading partners).

It's not a morbid joke to call this a WWIII softlaunch.

Oop, that's another impeachable offense in the pile.

Isn't the president allowed 90 days before congress is required?

If that dude knew how to fucking aim

Sorry, you can only be impeached for getting a beej (although that was creepy af from an intern) or wearing a tan suit.

Starting wars just won't do it.

He can rape 5 year old on a press conference and won't be impeached.

Hey guys, there is a lot of troll baiting in this thread. You've been doing a great job of not falling for it, so I'm not going to lock it. Newbies to this thread, check the times of when it was made and if it brings up the distant past a lot, those are good clues. Leave one comment at most to save everyone's sanity.

Can we impeach him out of a cannon?

Into the sun?

Who cares? He was inoeached before already and it literally did NOTHING

Wake me up when this bullshit is actually over, all this "oohh, THIS will end him for sure!" every week is tiring

We haven't declared war since WW2. Everything has been AUMF, which can be done within 60 days retroactively. As always, the government is checks and balances, so if Congress refuses to exercise its powers and let the executive do whatever, it's a moot point.

I think it'd only lead to impeachment if Congress wants us gone within 60 days and Trump refuses, continues without an AUMF, and then Congress actually had the balls to push back at that point.

But if someone is more familiar with the legal processes involved here, please do correct me or add to this.

Lol, no it isn't. Ever since Cold War times, the law has been that the president can not only launch missiles, but even deploy troops on the ground, without congressional approval. There's a limit on how long the troops can be deployed, iirc, but once you've started a ground invasion it's a bit late.

Obviously it's unconstitutional, but there's no legal precedent that would say so. If you think this is the first time this has happened, you really need to learn more about history. The US never formally declared war on Vietnam, for example.

Can anyone explain what happened to the articles of impeachment that were introduced a few months ago?

So? Nothing will ever come with it.