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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 18

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Lincoln and Philosophy

    Impeachment is not an ex post facto punishment, except to the limited extent that all current punishments for past conduct are in a sense ex post facto. The Founders surely understood ex-presidents to be public men.https://twitter.com/LincolnPhilo/status/1351192482093146112 …

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    A tendentious and attenuated reading of the Constitution that completely ignores (a) the ex post facto prohibition which can reasonably be applied to impeachment powers; and (b) Hamilton's clear application of impeachment solely to "public men" in Federalist 65. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1351178740441735176 …
    7:44 AM - 18 Jan 2021
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      2. Matt Franck‏ @MatthewJFranck Jan 18
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Any way you slice it, the person to whom you’re replying completely misunderstood what ex post facto means.

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      3. Lincoln and Philosophy‏ @LincolnPhilo Jan 18
        Replying to @MatthewJFranck @baseballcrank

        That may well be, Matt. I don't claim to be a scholar or an attorney, and I'm regrettably not a member of the secret handshake society. I'm also not a Trump partisan. My sole concern is impeachment as an arrogation of power. Apologies if that opinion to too plebeian for you.

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      2. Brian Skinner‏ @Rushlimbang Jan 18
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Sounds like a bill of attainder

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      3. Deriamis‏ @deriamis Jan 18
        Replying to @Rushlimbang @baseballcrank

        No, it really doesn’t, and you’re kind of silly for saying it does.

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      2. Superstar Celebrity Microphone‏ @WeisLime Jan 18
        Replying to @baseballcrank @gabrielmalor

        Surely the founders would not have intended to create period of “super immunity” for a president who could commit whatever crimes they could imagine as long as the senate could not logistically convene in time.

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      3. Lincoln and Philosophy‏ @LincolnPhilo Jan 18
        Replying to @WeisLime @gabrielmalor

        Surely the Founders did not mean for impeachment to be a super power. If an ex-president can face a Senate trial, in theory so can any citizen.

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      2. Lincoln and Philosophy‏ @LincolnPhilo Jan 18
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        That's a real stretch. What the Founders understood, as you surely know, is that inasmuch as government controls the governed, it is obliged to control itself (Fed. 51). Ergo, the Senate is not a Star Chamber that metes out impeachment at need as some sort of special power.

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      2. Henry Tenenbaum‏ @henryten Jan 18
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Anyone who uses "tendentious" in a sentence that misunderstands the concept of "ex post facto" is clearly "non compos mentis"

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      3. Lincoln and Philosophy‏ @LincolnPhilo Jan 18
        Replying to @henryten

        Really? And why is that? Don't like ten-cent words or something?

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