Proposal from Susan Collins-led group would bar Trump from presidency

A censure effort led by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins would bar former President Donald Trump from holding the office again while avoiding an impeachment trial, a Democrat drafting it with her said on Wednesday.

The proposal from Collins and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, was criticized by some as toothless after it was first reported by Axios on Tuesday. But it was fleshed out in interviews over the course of Wednesday in which Democrats pitched the effort as a bid to disqualify the president from running again — perhaps without a trial.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, told reporters in Washington that Collins and Kaine’s censure will “include the elements of the 14th Amendment” — a response to the Civil War that says those who have engaged in insurrection against the country cannot serve in federal office and allows Congress to enforce that provision — “that lead to disqualification from future office.”

“This is an alternative that would impose, in my view, a similar consequence but it does not require a trial and it does not require a two-thirds vote,” Kaine told CNN on Wednesday. “That’s what I have drafted.”

The wording has not been finalized and the legal theory is questionable. It is also unclear whether it would gain enough support to move forward with Democrats looking to try the former president and his fellow Republicans generally resisting it. But the development could mark a major escalation from Collins, a Republican who opposed House Democrats’ first attempt to remove the former president from office last year and has not said how she would vote in the second impeachment trial against Trump to begin next month.

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I think you are absolutely correct. Does anyone find it strange, that Hunter Bider and his father Joe Biden and the rest of their family have been accepting money from Communist China for years and now as President Joe Biden will be at the top of the Intelligence Committee? And yet some Republicans are expressing a concern that Eric Swalwell is still on the Intelligence Committee after his "association" with a Chinese Communist Spy. Why hasn't this same condemnation come from the Republicans about Joe Biden???? He is a greater danger to the National Security of this country than Eric Swalwell is. What about Nancy Pelosi's role in all of this and her demand that Swalwell remain on the Intelliegence Committee. Is she or other Democrats and maybe Republicans involved as well?? Are they compromised? Where is the FBI in all of this is? Are they hiding information as they did with 2016 Election? And why if they are? Are we being sold from within to our enemies? What has happened to my country? The only thing I know with certainy is that God is in control. It may not be in my lifetime but justice will be done.

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Bob Russell January 28, 2021 at 7:22pm

the gop hates and fears President Trump as much as their TREASONOUS devildemocommiecrat allies do.
- Jeff Noncent > Bob Russell January 29, 2021 at 12:56am
  
  I was wondering why some of the Republican hate Trump that much?
- Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, Retired > Jeff Noncent January 29, 2021 at 1:16am
  
  They are either compromised criminals and hate Trump because they know he would eventually get around to sending them to prison... or they are died in the wool COMMUNIST who see Trump thru the prism of Marx and hate his socio-economic philosophy.
- Doris Burgess > Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, Retired January 29, 2021 at 2:51am
  
  I think you are absolutely correct. Does anyone find it strange, that Hunter Bider and his father Joe Biden and the rest of their family have been accepting money from Communist China for years and now as President Joe Biden will be at the top of the Intelligence Committee? And yet some Republicans are expressing a concern that Eric Swalwell is still on the Intelligence Committee after his "association" with a Chinese Communist Spy. Why hasn't this same condemnation come from the Republicans about Joe Biden???? He is a greater danger to the National Security of this country than Eric Swalwell is. What about Nancy Pelosi's role in all of this and her demand that Swalwell remain on the Intelliegence Committee. Is she or other Democrats and maybe Republicans involved as well?? Are they compromised? Where is the FBI in all of this is? Are they hiding information as they did with 2016 Election? And why if they are? Are we being sold from within to our enemies? What has happened to my country? The only thing I know with certainy is that God is in control. It may not be in my lifetime but justice will be done.
Paul Simmon January 28, 2021 at 7:13pm

Anyone going against Trump is a traitor, hates the USA and the Constitution. Real American patriots support Trump come what may.
- Jeff Noncent > Paul Simmon January 29, 2021 at 1:20am
  
  I am with you Paul
Martha A Loew January 28, 2021 at 7:08pm

Collins is the one who needs to be censored. Trump is not a traitor. Collins Kaine, Coon and Biden are. People of Maine, you should be ashamed of yourself for ever electing this piece of human waste!, These people are truly disgusting and should be removed NOW!
- Jeff Noncent > Martha A Loew January 29, 2021 at 1:21am
  
  Bingo!
John Bryce Woodbury January 28, 2021 at 6:55pm

Thats why I never gaveher anything!! Its ggod she won or the Senate would be worse off. But she is not really a Republican but a true RINO.
- Bob Russell > John Bryce Woodbury January 28, 2021 at 7:24pm
  
  the senate wouldn't be any worse with a devildemocommiecrat with a D behind its name instead of an R as she is just one of them. The true ratio in the senate is about 93-7 in favor of the devildemocommiecrat TRAITORS!!!!!!!!!!

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