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"The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."
My understanding is that there aren't the conditions for a succesful impeachment of Trump. If I have not missed something.

If a President has so high friction with the other Public Powers (judicary system, parliament etc.) that it goes into doing pretty much nothing, is there any remedy in the Law?

Trump may resign. He is not the tough guy his nuts fantasies about.
Articles of Impeachment originate in the House of Representatives. It is currently under republican control. They will not impeach a president of their own party. All members of the House of Representatives are up for election in 2018. The hope is that public distaste for Trump will spill onto members of his party and the Democrats can take back the majority. At that point,(I'm sure he will have committed either treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors)the Democrats can draw up articles of impeachment. They send them to the Senate where the President would stand trial. All bets are off as to the outcome.
 
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I love when people come up with rantings from random organizations without even knowing from where those indexes come from, so that their opinion sounds more objective and fact-based.
"As described in the report, the democracy index is a weighted average based on the answers of 60 questions, each one with either two or three permitted alternative answers. Most answers are "experts' assessments"; the report does not indicate what kinds of experts, nor their number, nor whether the experts are employees of the Economist Intelligence Unit or independent scholars, nor the nationalities of the experts. Some answers are provided by public-opinion surveys from the respective countries." From the wikipedia article on the index.
So basically, you go around asking the american people and (probably american) non-specified specialists what are their impressions on the country, and try to treat that subjective data as an objective description of reality...
Let's get the facts objective. In Brazil, we vote directly for the executive, not for shady electors who can second-guess the popular sovereignty of thousands. The election result need no confirmation from Congress, they can't simply throw away popular sovereignty. We have direct democracy on health issues through the health councils. We have more than thirdy political parties. You can vote in the party you most identify with every time, because strategical voting is unnecessary in the two rounds + proportional system. In the last 7 elections we had 4 different parties gaining the presidential office. There are absolutely no brazilian citizen imprisioned for informing their fellow citizens of the actions of their government (like happened to Manning). The voting day is a holiday, and companies can be fined for forcing voters to work. We don't cut the voting rights of prisoners and former felons. It is unconstitutional to deny citizens basic rights (like healthcare). Companies have restrictions on campaign donations, and this is not considered a limitation on their free-speech rights (companies are not considered people). Sure, we don't have a long history of democracy (our first post-dictatorship election was in 1990), but you are grossly misinformed if you think we are worst off in terms of how democratic we are compared with USA.
Itaipu dam: BRAZILIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
But more significantly, the venture has been implicated in the ongoing saga of Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption scandal, which has polarised the country and threatened to topple its biggest institutions. In testimony given as part of a plea bargain last month, a Brazilian senator claimed there were irregularities in the bidding process to build Belo Monte, along with bribes of up to R$45m (£8.6m) diverted to the governing Workers’ Party (PT) and its coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB)
Delcidio do Amaral, who had been the PT leader of Senate, was arrested as part of the multi-billion dollar Lava Jato (carwash) corruption probe, a two-year investigation that has rocked the government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-a-damming-problem-over-vast-hydroelectric-p/
 

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Itaipu dam: BRAZILIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
But more significantly, the venture has been implicated in the ongoing saga of Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption scandal, which has polarised the country and threatened to topple its biggest institutions. In testimony given as part of a plea bargain last month, a Brazilian senator claimed there were irregularities in the bidding process to build Belo Monte, along with bribes of up to R$45m (£8.6m) diverted to the governing Workers’ Party (PT) and its coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB)
Delcidio do Amaral, who had been the PT leader of Senate, was arrested as part of the multi-billion dollar Lava Jato (carwash) corruption probe, a two-year investigation that has rocked the government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-a-damming-problem-over-vast-hydroelectric-p/
I don't know if you are responding to the wrong post or if in your mind there is some logical connection between this article and democracy index...
 

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And they said The Resistance wouldn't last and would run out of steam:
More people in the U.S. protested in June than in any month since the January Women’s Marches.

or June 2017, we tallied 818 protests, demonstrations, strikes, marches, sit-ins and rallies in the United States, with at least one in every state and the District of Columbia. Our conservative guess is that from 954,298 to 1,173,771 people showed up at these political gatherings last month, although it is likely there were far more participants. Because mainstream media often neglect to report nonviolent actions — especially small ones — it is probable that we did not record every event that took place. Sometimes no one reports the size of the crowd, which contributes to undercounting.
Nevertheless, we think our tally gives us a useful pool of information to better understand political mobilization in the United States — particularly how reports of crowds change from month to month. In this case, we estimate that June saw a staggering ninefold increase from May in the number of people protesting. In May, during which we observed from 100,807 to 128,464 people participating in crowds.

In fact, our best-guess tally suggests that more people likely participated in crowds in June than in any month since January.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...anuary-womens-marches/?utm_term=.ffab852c1c76
 

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You could say that the resistance HAPPENED with Trump getting elected. He represents the 'American Dream', even though he is a inherited billionaire. He says what he thinks, he doesn't give a shit what other people think of his politics, he tears up the 'protocol' structures in politics in the US and further afield and a lot of people like that. Why? Because they voted for him as a revolution against the establishment. It doesn't matter that Trump is a billionaire because that isn't the issue - the issue is that people have, for years, felt let down by the main party candidates and felt NOTHING was changing. By voting in Trump they have taken their own stand and essentially taken over. You can only start a resistance against something long standing and established but Trump simply isn't that. As I said I think most people used their vote to politically 'resist' the mainstream party candidates for something much more radical.

Not justifying Trump at all just pointing out that actually the Trump administration is, in itself, a resistance against the normal.
 
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And they said The Resistance wouldn't last and would run out of steam:
More people in the U.S. protested in June than in any month since the January Women’s Marches.

or June 2017, we tallied 818 protests, demonstrations, strikes, marches, sit-ins and rallies in the United States, with at least one in every state and the District of Columbia. Our conservative guess is that from 954,298 to 1,173,771 people showed up at these political gatherings last month, although it is likely there were far more participants. Because mainstream media often neglect to report nonviolent actions — especially small ones — it is probable that we did not record every event that took place. Sometimes no one reports the size of the crowd, which contributes to undercounting.
Nevertheless, we think our tally gives us a useful pool of information to better understand political mobilization in the United States — particularly how reports of crowds change from month to month. In this case, we estimate that June saw a staggering ninefold increase from May in the number of people protesting. In May, during which we observed from 100,807 to 128,464 people participating in crowds.

In fact, our best-guess tally suggests that more people likely participated in crowds in June than in any month since January.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...anuary-womens-marches/?utm_term=.ffab852c1c76

If its anything like the UK this won't matter in the slightest. The strikes, demonstrations, rallies stand for nothing because the government will just shrug their shoulders and carry on as normal. Remember the government/power will crush the normal people at every turn.
 
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What is a cross of Donald + money + greed + ammunition + ignorance = Less resistance.
 

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The resistance sues Sessions and DOJ:
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Philly sues Sessions over sanctuary-city crackdown
Updated: August 30, 2017 — 11:14 AM EDT


Philadelphia is suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court over his attempt to withhold grant money from sanctuary cities.
Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the state of California have also filed similar suits over new restrictions on a federal grant that funds police training and overtime. Sessions announced the restriction in July.
Under President Barack Obama, city officials were told that, to keep the grant, they would have to certify they were compliant with a federal law banning any local laws that prohibit communication with Immigration and Customs Enforcement about their residents’ immigration status. City officials have said they had no problems obtaining the grant money in the past. Last year, the city received $1.67 million.


But Sessions has added two additional requirements to that grant. When ICE requests it, cities must give immigration agents two days’ notice before releasing undocumented immigrants from custody. And they must allow ICE access to any detention facility to ask immigrants held there “about their right to be or remain in the United States.”

“All of this is political,” Mayor Kenney said Wednesday. “It’s Sessions trying to cozy up to Trump because he was in the doghouse.” (Sessions had announced the restrictions during a week of near-constant criticism from Trump over his decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the election.)
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...s-over-sanctuary-city-crackdown-20170830.html























 
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Articles of Impeachment originate in the House of Representatives. It is currently under republican control. They will not impeach a president of their own party. All members of the House of Representatives are up for election in 2018. The hope is that public distaste for Trump will spill onto members of his party and the Democrats can take back the majority. At that point,(I'm sure he will have committed either treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors)the Democrats can draw up articles of impeachment. They send them to the Senate where the President would stand trial. All bets are off as to the outcome.

And then the routine continues. Democrat, Republican, democrat, republican ad infinitum.
All while the bankers continue to run the whole show while everyone else squabbles and fights while they make ever more money and throw all of us further into bad debt.