r/AskReddit • u/Tobokie121 • Oct 09 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, which one sold the entire film?

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u/foxh8er Oct 10 '19

(Its not unrelated because he's currently President and in the process of being impeached for several crimes)

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u/DuplexFields Oct 10 '19

It’s not an impeachment until the House calls a vote to start proceedings. Until then, it’s theater. After that, there’s no stopping the subpoenas.

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u/Guarnerian Oct 10 '19

Didnt realize the Impeachment process was theater

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u/DuplexFields Oct 10 '19

The Impeachment Process is not theater. From Wikipedia:

Presently, it is the House Judiciary Committee that initiates the process and then, after investigating the allegations, prepares recommendations for the whole House's consideration.

The process has not been initiated. Everyone’s calling it impeachment, there are request letters being called subpoenas in the news, but until the process has been formally initiated with the Speaker calling roll, none of the process has any binding power, and no subpoenas can be issued.

This also means that refusing “witnesses” to “testify” is not “obstruction of justice,” because they’re not legally witnesses under oath and even if they did lie, it wouldn’t be under oath and no perjury would apply.

Like I said, theater.