A person of many
hats,
none that you would want to wear!
Ex-White House
Ethics Chief
Calls McConnell A
'Perjurer'
After Senator Takes
Impeachment Oath:
He Said
'The Exact Opposite'
Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell
was branded a
"perjurer"
Thursday by former
President George W. Bush's ethics chief,
after the Republican
senator took an oath
swearing
impartiality in the impeachment trial
of President Donald
Trump.
“Perjury is
considered a serious offense, as it can be used to usurp the power of the
courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice.
In the United
States, for example, the general perjury statute under federal law classifies
perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years”!
In the
16th-century common law that is the precedent for America’s criminal statute,
perjury was declared “infamous and detestable.” Since the First Congress, in
1790, lying under oath has been proscribed under federal law, and all 50 states
now have statutes criminalizing perjury.
Perjury,
criminalized at 18 U.S.C. § 1621, is
perhaps the most recognizable law against lying. The statute makes it a crime
to “willfully and contrary to [an] oath state[] or subscribe[] any material
matter which he does not believe to be true.”
Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Tuesday bluntly acknowledged some of the political
realities surrounding the upcoming
Senate impeachment trial of President Donald
Trump, notably saying, "I'm not impartial about this at all."
Many more names come
to mind when I thing Moscow Mitch!
A millionaire
living on the backs
of his state
citizens
in the 6th poorest
state
in this country!
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