Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

(arstechnica.com)

125 points voxadam | 2 comments | 22 Sep 25 20:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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mindslight ◴[22 Sep 25 20:45 UTC] No.45339244[source]▶

So presumably Rand Paul supports impeachment and conviction, right? The Supreme Council has Decreed that the only possible check on this naked corruption is impeachment by Congress, so you either support impeachment or you're just grandstanding.

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1. nickff ◴[22 Sep 25 20:57 UTC] No.45339347[source]▶

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If the FCC chair was the one engaged in wrong-doing (as Paul seems to believe), they would be the prime candidate for impeachment. In any case, it seems like Paul thinks that the previous administration was also engaging in censorship, and there were no impeachments in that case either, so perhaps he does not believe that censorship is a 'high crime or misdemeanor'.

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2. xp84 ◴[22 Sep 25 21:32 UTC] No.45339763[source]▶

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I think wherever you stand on the left vs. right spectrum, it's clear now that "High crimes and misdemeanors" is now de facto defined only as "stuff we don't like that the other party's guy did." Trump could openly commit treason and probably not even be impeached ny his party, let alone removed.

But I don't for a second believe that the Democratic Party would cooperate with "their" person being impeached now either, except if it was politically advantageous for them (for instance, to remove an unpopular Democrat for an embarrassing misstep when there was a popular VP ready to go). No way would they impeach for crimes of overstepping presidential authority to do something the President from The West Wing would be proud of, for instance.

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