11-15-2019, 11:43 AM
(11-15-2019, 08:03 AM)6andcounting Wrote: 1. Hearsay isn't evidence so you can't impeach someone in it.
The rest of your post has been addressed already, but this hasn't. Yes, you can. This isn't a criminal trial. Congress can impeach on anything they want to. Even when it becomes a trial in the Senate, the bar isn't the same. Due process rights do not exist for impeachment. Also, impeachment is specifically holding someone to a higher bar than criminal conduct and the criminal system. The framers wanted our officials held to a higher standard.
My last point on this is that the most commonly drawn comparison to the criminal process is that the House is the grand jury deciding to indict. This isn't a perfect comparison for a number of reasons, but in a grand jury hearsay can absolutely be admitted to get an indictment. Hearsay can be admitted in evidence in a criminal trial as well with certain stipulations. Twitter lawyers are getting that shit all wrong.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
