J Robert Smith

• Feb 8
• 3 min read

Updated: Feb. 9, 2021

J. Robert Smith is a contributor at American Thinker. His latest article on elections fraud and the imperative to make substantial elections reforms before the 2022 midterm elections can be found here.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 9, the U.S. Senate takes up Act II of the farce playing out on Capitol Hill: the removal trial of former president Donald J. Trump. Never mind that Congress can’t remove a past elected or appointed official from an office he doesn’t occupy. Never no-mind that Article 1, Section 3, of the Constitution is explicit about what impeachment entails. Never no-mind that a trial stands simple common sense on its head. DC is its own little inbred world playing by its own toxic rules.

J Robert Smith

• Feb. 7, 2021
• 2 min read

Updated: Feb. 8, 2021

J. Robert Smith is a contributor at American Thinker. His latest article on elections fraud and the imperative to make substantial elections reforms before the 2022 midterm elections can be found here.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the obvious: churches have a 1st Amendment right to conduct indoor services. It was a partial victory for places of worship. Of course, owing to the times, SCOTUS made room for the so-called “administrative state,” which is nothing more than a bureaucratic nanny state or, at its worst, outright tyranny.

J Robert Smith

• Jan. 25, 2021
• 4 min read

Updated: Jan. 28, 2021

Bernie Sanders, the self-avowed “Democratic” socialist, and not really independent from Vermont, has something half right.

From Chris Enloe at The Blaze, January 23, 2020:

“Given all that we face, now is not the time to think small. It is time to think big, very big,” Sanders said on Thursday, according to McClatchy reporter Francesca Chambers.

J Robert Smith

• Jan. 23, 2021
• 3 min read

Article 1, Section 3, the United States Constitution

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States… [italics added]

Like Joe Biden, is Mitch starting to lose it? The Constitution is plain about impeachment. It’s about removal from office of federal elected or appointed officials for limited categories of offenses. You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar, like Jonathan Turley or Alan Dershowitz, to get it. The Senate can’t remove a former president from the office he doesn’t occupy. But Democrats fear Trump in opposition, so they want to dirty him up. A simple-stupid fact isn’t stopping them. Vindictiveness and a Soviet-style destruction of “enemies of the state” is the rule of the day.

J Robert Smith

• Jan. 16, 2021
• 4 min read

So, earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Liz Chaney, daughter of Dick, decided it was time to exact a little revenge on President Donald J. Trump. She led nine other misfit Republicans in treachery. She and her RINOs joined Democrats in a vote to impeach Trump an historic second time.

You see, long ago, the president committed the unpardonable sin of criticizing the Bush-Chaney commitment to unending warfare and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then Trump, as president, compounded his sin by shrinking America’s presence in both nations (if you can call them nations; they’re more like strife-torn tribal lands). Had Trump not had a second term stolen from him, it’s a great bet that ongoing U.S. on-ground involvement in the aforementioned lands would have ceased.