White House Petition to Impeach Pelosi Tops 100K Signatures, Triggering Official Response

[rangerrebew]

White House Petition to Impeach Pelosi Tops 100K Signatures, Triggering Official Response


A White House website “We the People” petition declaring “IMPEACH Pelosi for treason!” has surpassed the “100,000 signatures in 30 days” requirement to trigger an official response from the White House.

The “Nancy Pelosi is a TRAITOR to the American People!” petition, created by a person identified only as “M.G.” was created on January 18, 2019. Twelve days later, as of January 30, the petition had garnered more than 130,000 signatures – enough to earn a response, the website says:

    “Needs 0 signatures by February 17, 2019 to get a response from the White House”

 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/white-house-petition-impeach-pelosi-tops-100k-signatures-triggering-official

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Too bad.

She needs to be "Expelled" by the House itself.

I don't think she can be impeached.

[aligncare]

Amid the saturation news campaign of how unpopular President Trump is, the msm fails to mention even once that congress’s overall approval and Nancy and Chuck’s specific approval rating is half that of Donald Trump’s.

[Wingnut]

I think these on-line petitions are stupid and any response to them should be stopped.  What dumb ass President decided this was a good idea in the 1st place.

[RetBobbyMI]

Too bad.

She needs to be "Expelled" by the House itself.

I don't think she can be impeached.

Exactly. Also she is Trumps second best ally in the house when compared to the radicals like AOC.

[ABX]

Too bad.

She needs to be "Expelled" by the House itself.

I don't think she can be impeached.

She can't be expelled either. Short of being arrested for a specific crime, this would be up to the voters in California to go through a recall process, and I'm not sure if I hat applies to Congressional seats there.

[ABX]

I think these on-line petitions are stupid and any response to them should be stopped.  What dumb ass President decided this was a good idea in the 1st place.

1. Correct
2. Obama started this specific online petition process.

[Smokin Joe]

She can't be expelled either. Short of being arrested for a specific crime, this would be up to the voters in California to go through a recall process, and I'm not sure if I hat applies to Congressional seats there.

I did not think members of Congress were subject to recall votes. I'd be nice if they were. Maybe they'd pay attention to their constituents some time besides the last 4-5 months before the election.

[Cyber Liberty]

She can't be expelled either. Short of being arrested for a specific crime, this would be up to the voters in California to go through a recall process, and I'm not sure if I hat applies to Congressional seats there.

I think she can be expelled from the Congress (which would require an act of Congress), but not the Speakership?  I know that sounds odd, but being a Member of Congress is not a requirement to be Speaker (although there has never been a Speaker who was not elected from the House membership that I know of).

As for a "recall elections" for Congresscritters, I don't think that's allowed.  It's like Term Limits...no requirement beyond the Election is permitted.

[Cyber Liberty]

I did not think members of Congress were subject to recall votes. I'd be nice if they were. Maybe they'd pay attention to their constituents some time besides the last 4-5 months before the election.

They are not.  I have specific experience, having been involved in the Recall McCain effort.  We were reliant upon his voluntarily resigning if he lost the vote (stop laughing).  The actual Recall Election was to be merely a formal request to resign.  I think there was a prior SCOTUS decision, but it was a long time ago (2001) and I can't recall the exact mechanations that went on. 

We abandoned the effort after 9/11.  We weren't going to get enough signatures anyway, we needed around 500K signatures, which is next to impossible unless the politician involved was somebody like Evan Mecham.

[Wingnut]

1. Correct
2. Obama started this specific online petition process.

Yeah.  Mr. Hopey Change. 

[GtHawk]

She can't be expelled either. Short of being arrested for a specific crime, this would be up to the voters in California to go through a recall process, and I'm not sure if I hat applies to Congressional seats there.

Unfortunately the voters of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc. along with the democrat voters of California make that an impossibility.

[libertybele]

I think she can be expelled from the Congress (which would require an act of Congress), but not the Speakership?  I know that sounds odd, but being a Member of Congress is not a requirement to be Speaker (although there has never been a Speaker who was not elected from the House membership that I know of).

As for a "recall elections" for Congresscritters, I don't think that's allowed.  It's like Term Limits...no requirement beyond the Election is permitted.

I'm pretty sure she can be expelled from Congress and/or asked to step down from the Speakership by members of the House and then they would vote in another Speaker.  (Gingrich for example).

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm pretty sure she can be expelled from Congress and/or asked to step down from the Speakership by members of the House and then they would vote in another Speaker.  (Gingrich for example).

Sounds about right.

Aha!  I found a list at Wiki.  Five Congressmen have ever been expelled, three for being loyal to the Confederacy in 1861 and two "recently" for taking bribes (Traficant in 2002 and Myers in 1980).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Are bleep really this stupid? House members don't get impeached.

[Cyber Liberty]

Are bleep really this stupid? House members don't get impeached.

This is one of those stupid White House dot gov "petitions," so yes.  They are that stupid.

[Elderberry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress

The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5)[1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote.

In the entire history of the United States Congress, 20 Members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and 5 from the House of Representatives (of those, one member's expulsion, William K. Sebastian of Arkansas, was posthumously reversed).

[Wingnut]

This is one of those stupid White House dot gov "petitions," so yes.  They are that stupid.

It was born/hatched on Bookface...then moved to gov.org.  So you knew it was signed by people who live in the place where logic and reason go to die.

[Cyber Liberty]

It was born/hatched on Bookface...then moved to gov.org.  So you knew it was signed by people who live in the place where logic and reason go to die.

I'm sure many signed a few times.  It's called "Freeping the Poll" at TOS.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

1. Correct
2. Obama started this specific online petition process.

And here's what happened when Obama's White House got wind of a petition they didn't want.

The original requirement to ask the meddler in chief to stick his nose into society at large - Legacy Chasing - was 25,000 signatures. They changed the number required before it had time to reach 25K.

They upped it to 100,000, because there was no way he, Holder, FDA, CDC, NIH, NIMH, NAMI, Drug Companies, Pharma, or a bunch of other drug whores would come out of it looking good.


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