{"id":141318,"date":"2020-01-28T06:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/starr-warns-senate-we-are-living-in-the-age-of-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T06:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:32:06","slug":"starr-warns-senate-we-are-living-in-the-age-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/starr-warns-senate-we-are-living-in-the-age-of-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Starr Warns Senate: We Are Living in The Age of Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Starr made his impeachment debut on Jan. 27 as a member of President Donald Trumps legal defense team with a warning about the growing use of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently. Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the age of impeachment,\u201d Starr told senators.<\/p>\n<p>Starr, who, as an independent counsel, investigated then-President Bill Clinton ahead of his impeachment trial in the late 1990s, argued that no crimes were committed in Trumps case and sought to undermine House Democrats case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere crimes alleged in the articles in the common law of presidential impeachment? In Nixon, yes. In Clinton, yes. Here, no,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Impeachment, he argued, should be a last resort to remove a president from office. He urged senators to look to the text of the Constitution to restore the United States history and tradition.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/01\/27\/Ken-Starr-speaks-in-impeachment-trial-1200x675.jpeg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" alt=\"Ken Starr speaks in impeachment trial\"\/><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/01\/27\/Ken-Starr-speaks-in-impeachment-trial-600x338.jpeg\" alt=\"Ken Starr speaks in impeachment trial\"\/><\/figcaption><\/a> Ken Starr, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks during the impeachment trial against Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 27, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)<\/figure>\n<p>Over the past five decades or so\u2014with the investigation into President Richard Nixon and the independent counsel provision of The Ethics and Government Act of 1978\u2014impeachment has become increasingly used by the House, which is unprecedented in the history of the United States, Starr said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the new chapter was not simply the age of independent counsels. It became, unbeknownst to the American people, the age of impeachment,\u201d Starr said.<\/p>\n<p>Starr played a significant role in investigating Clinton, filing a report that led to his impeachment in the House; Clinton was acquitted in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of a once-in-a-century phenomenon, which it had been, presidential impeachment has become a weapon t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/ken-starr-warns-senate-we-are-living-in-the-age-of-impeachment_3217766.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ninebyninedesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/download.png\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Epoch Times<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Starr made his impeachment debut on Jan. 27 as a member of President Donald Trumps legal defense..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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