ANYWAY...
The Democrats are still tormented by TDS. Trump's been out of office for basically a month at this point and they won't let it go.
Enter the "No Glory for Hate" act, which would prohibit any president who's been impeached exactly twice or convicted of a State or Federal crime from being represented or commemorated on public land using Federal funds. They cannot retain any "perks" of being a former president or be interned at Arlington National Cemetery.
Trump's second impeachment was essentially political theatre. He wasn't found guilty, of course, of the charges that might as well have been fabricated.
"Impeachment" refers to the process, not the outcome. It's like being indicted for a crime -- you can be indicted and be later found to be innocent, or you can be found guilty and that is the point at which you will receive some sort of punishment and have the event put on your criminal record. Punishing impeached presidents regardless of trial outcome is like sending someone to jail simply for being arrested and put on trial.
The impeachment itself requires only a simple majority. Being that Democrats are 50% of the Senate and they're all suffering from TDS, that's not exactly difficult. The actual conviction after initial impeachment requires a supermajority which IIRC is 60%. There are not enough vehement Never-Trump Republicans to make said supermajority.
Why twice? Why not once? Why not make it a three-strikes kind of thing?
Presidents have only been impeached 4 times: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Evil Orange KKK Nazi Man twice. All four times, they were acquitted of their charges. It would be a lot of pointless work to exhume Johnson's grave and take down all references to him, and Bill Clinton is both a Democrat and - for fuck's sake - a
Clinton, so they wouldn't do that to
him. Trump is the only one to be impeached twice and it wouldn't suit their agenda to give him a third strike, or to write the bill in such a way that it punishes presidents found guilty after impeachment.
"The impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson had important political implications for the
balance of federal legislative-executive power. It maintained the principle that
Congress should not remove the president from office simply because its members disagreed with him over policy, style, and administration of the office."
-- Wikipedia probably
Well...so much for that...
Why is it called "No Glory for Hate" and not "No Glory for War Crimes", "No Glory for Un-Constitutional Douchebaggery", or "No Glory for 'Not Having Sexual Relations With That Woman...Monica Lewinsky'"?
Clearly this is simply a general law that would solely exist to promote overall integrity for
whoever happens to be POTUS - so they behave in a Constitutional and fair, honest, non-tyrannical way - and it's not targeting anyone in particular, and there's no political agenda whatsoever behind it...
Somehow I get the sense that Democrats don't intend to play ball with the competition for long enough for there to be a possibility of one of their own getting impeached twice and then affected by this law. The way they talk, it seems to be part of a larger plan to take over all three branches of the government and make it impossible for Republicans or anyone else for that matter, to gain any significant share of control.
But hey...uNiTy
