Per Rehnquist, the intent of the Founding Fathers was reiterated and upheld -- not overruled -- by Nixon in 1993, LL. There is nothing on record like a 15th or 19th Amendment changing that intent.Again, Nixon had to do with the authority of the Senate. The authority of the House was never at issue ... and Nixon made no complaint about the House.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
On a hooker board blog you can play that cherry-picking game of quoting lines out of an opinion .... that are dicta and not relevant to the "holding" of the case. But in the real world of providing precedent for the court to rule upon it doesn't work. What you are doing is fixating on a conclusion you want and then looking for dicta to support your conclusion.
Contrary to what you say about me, and what I have posted about your focus in this thread, you on the other had are shifting the substance of what I have been saying away from the original statements I have made, because you can't find any holdings that support your opposition to what I said, which is:
the House does not have "full discretion" to impeach, but is restricted to the legal basis within the standards imposed in the Constitution, and Rhenquist AND Roberts have said if Congress acts outside the guidelines set in the Constitution the Court can and will look at it.....the same as the Court did in Nixon....(in the sense of examining and interpreting the provisions of the Constitution.)....because the Constitution gives the Court that jurisdiction over "all cases" arising out of acts of Congress.
Now don't take what I just said and distort it, like you've done before. And now you have WTF chihuahua yapping and snapping trying to prove what you distorted by changing the words I posted before.
You find the words I posted and give me the link with it where i said what you called a "lie" about what you posted. Not how you characterize what I posted, but quote all of the paragraph and/or sentence with the link to what I posted.
And then quit trying to refocus the discussion to a non-issue.