Senator Patrick Leahy FALLS ILL and Taken to the Hospital After Presiding Over Trump Impeachment
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After presiding over the start of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) fell ill and was taken to the hospital, his office announced Tuesday.
“This evening, Senator Leahy was in his Capitol office and was not feeling well. He was examined in the Capitol by the Attending Physician. Out of an abundance of caution, the Attending Physician recommended that he be taken to a local hospital,” his spokesperson said in a statement. The 80-year-old senator is currently being evaluated.
It’s unclear if he was tested for the coronavirus or if it is something else unrelated. He, like many other Senators, received the vaccine on Dec. 19 along with his other colleagues. He would have received the second dose of the vaccine three or four weeks later, depending on the type of vaccination.
The story is still developing…
Senator Patrick Leahy taken to the hospital after presiding over Trump impeachmenthttps://t.co/JAkTKyzl2P
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 26, 2021
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January 26, 2021 at 11:41 PM #398397
Why couldn’t it have been Yertle. Or Manchin??
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable". - John F. Kennedy
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January 27, 2021 at 12:12 AM #398417
Why couldn’t it have been Yertle. Or Manchin??
No, we do NOT want anything serious to happen to Manchin. The Governor of West Virginia is a Republican who would presumably appoint a Republican to the vacancy. Any special election would be won by a Republican, because there’s probably no Democrat other than Manchin who could win a statewide election in West Virginia. (2020 election for the other seat: Paula Jean Swearingen (D), progressive challenger endorsed by Bernie, 27%; Shelley Moore Capito (R), 70%)
If Manchin dies or has to resign, then Mitch McConnell is back in control of the Senate.
This is why I said that anyone who is on good terms with your Former Employer should be praying for Manchin’s health.
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January 26, 2021 at 11:41 PM #398398
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January 26, 2021 at 11:45 PM #398401
…..to check for ‘pollonium’………I actually have to agree in this fucked up post-Trump environment.
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January 26, 2021 at 11:52 PM #398405
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January 26, 2021 at 11:57 PM #398410
Anyways I wouldn’t put it pass him to do something like that, being good friends with Putin and all!
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January 27, 2021 at 1:43 AM #398444
in that case I’m pretty confident that you can tell us all what Putin did
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January 27, 2021 at 1:10 AM #398423
If he doesn’t make it back to the senate democrats will have their old excuse to fall back on again: “we don’t have the votes”
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January 27, 2021 at 1:10 AM #398424
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January 27, 2021 at 1:23 AM #398432
“After presiding over the start of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) fell ill and was taken to the hospital, his office announced Tuesday.”
Senators have nothing to do with impeachment – that’s the House. I haven’t heard that the trial has been scheduled. So what was he presiding over??
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January 27, 2021 at 1:37 AM #398438
I read today Rand Paul forced a vote declaring the Senate Impeachment Hearing unconstitutional.
45 Republicans voted “Yes” — that it was unconstitutional. That sounds like Trump will be acquited. The five Republican senators who broke with their party were Romney, Murkowski, Collins, Sasse and Toomey.
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January 27, 2021 at 2:44 AM #398469
Pelosi wanted a symbol – no matter how irrelevant or meaningless it is.
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January 27, 2021 at 1:40 AM #398441
I hadn’t heard the trial had started yet, either, and I don’t know why Roberts isn’t presiding over the trial.
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You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.--Fred Hampton
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January 27, 2021 at 2:23 AM #398465
When the Senate’s impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins next month, one familiar face from Trump’s first impeachment won’t be there: Chief Justice John Roberts. Instead, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who serves as the president pro tempore of the Senate, will preside over the trial.
As Frank Bowman explained in an article for SCOTUSblog before Trump’s first impeachment trial last year, the Constitution requires the chief justice to preside over an impeachment trial for the president. But Trump, who was impeached on Jan. 13 for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, is no longer the president.
In a statement released on Monday, Leahy wrote that the president pro tempore “has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents.” Leahy pledged to adhere to his “constitutional and sworn obligations to administer the trial with fairness.”
The Supreme Court had no comment regarding Roberts’ absence from the second impeachment trial.
This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/roberts-will-not-preside-over-impeachment-trial/
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January 27, 2021 at 2:48 AM #398471
Nothing started, nothing to preside over, and some reporter – er – story writer not know the difference between impeachment and trial.
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January 27, 2021 at 2:25 AM #398467
🙂
Wait, did anyone post that Chief Justice Roberts was blackmailed by Russia! to recuse himself?
If Trump gets convicted, can Hillary be declared former President, and given a Presidential library?
https://www.thewrap.com/veep-vagi-brary-looks-whole-lot-like-george-lucas-new-museum-photos/
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January 27, 2021 at 2:04 PM #398544
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