Buzbee asked a question of his fellow citizens recently, "Can anyone look at the present state of Houston city government and say: Let's have four more years of this?"

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I listen to all these so-called constitutional law expert professors from the best law schools in this country. It makes me think about what a failure our legal system is with this group of constitutional law experts. Fact check, our federal system of government is a republic democracy. The founding fathers set up an executive branch with certain authority to run the federal government, a legislature with two bodies, House and Senate with set authorities to pass laws and have government oversight. Lastly, a judiciary who acts as umpires when a dispute arises and interprets the law based on the Constitution. Their wisdom established a system designed with a separation of powers on these three branches of government which is being ignored. The founding fathers had great wisdom and put checks and balances over each branch of government and if not specifically defined under our federal jurisdiction, it was left to the states as state rights were equally important.

Just because Congress issues a subpoena to seek documents, witness testimony or a warrant from the DOJ does not mean there is no legal recourse by the individual served. They can seek legal recourse from our judiciary for a ruling before being forced to turn over the information or testify. This is the proper recourse and due process given to the individual leaders subject to an impeachment. The Congress keeps bringing up past impeachment hearing like President Nixon's impeachment process brought against him; not for the Watergate break-in but for obstruction of Justice for using federal agencies such as the IRS, FBI, CIA to go after large democratic donors to destroy the two party system. This is why President Nixon resigned. I spoke to President Nixon in 1978 when he did a book tour in Philadelphia and we discussed this issue and he confirmed this issue. He told me I hit it directly and wanted to know how I came up with this assessment. I told him I found out large democratic corporate donors were receiving IRS audits and told to hire an attorney, Maurice Stans, and contribute to certain Republican based organizations and their issues would go away. In the impeachment of President Clinton he did not commit an impeachable offense. Not a high crime, bribery or misdemeanor. Sexual misconduct in the White House and lying about it is not an impeachable offense.

Now, President Trump is going through this impeachment process based on a set of facts that may or may not fit into the definition of impeachment set up under the Constitution. Congress has not identified a clear crime and keeps raising the bar and goes against what all our Founding Fathers put in to make the impeachment process hard to remove the highest executive officerholder. Congress is accusing President Trump of abusing power for his own personal benefit at the expense of national security by withholding military aid and an Oval Office meeting. The problem is the military aid was given, the Oval Office meeting took place and the foreign country did not open an investigation into a political opponent. Congress has abused its power and needs to be held accountable and now need to seek a ruling from the judiciary.

Also, if the President acts outside his executive power in obstructing justice by stopping witnesses to testify, Congress can perform oversight including bringing an impeachment action but needs to do so without jeopardizing the individual's rights to due process whether a public official or private citizen. The separation of powers grants executive power to the President and the judiciary needs to determine if the President abused or acted outside the scope of executive privilege. Congress' action is setting up a bad precedent for future Presidents as now inserting itself over the executive branch in areas not in their authority. They need court approval to proceed down this course since they did not follow the proper impeachment process set out by the Founding Fathers. If a President deserves to be impeached then do it under the proper manner and stop all the showcasing media circus. This is a very serious issue.

Also, the biased media in Washington, DC and these so-called constitutional law professor experts need to review history and how our republic political system was set up and the historical reasons why it was done in this manner including the states rights issues and reasons for the restraints placed on the three branches of our federal system.

Lastly, I leave you with this, if this is the best constitutional law professor experts teaching at our finest law schools, we are in trouble as they have no more knowledge of our Constitution than monkeys in a zoo. These professionals speak theory but have no trial experience so a novel thought for them is to visit a courtroom where real trials take place. If President Trump deserves to be impeached, then Congress needs to find an impeachable crime. If not, move on and do what you were sent to Congress to do; the passage of legislation for the public benefit.

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Gary Polland is a long-time conservative and Republican spokesman, fund-raiser, and leader who completed three terms as the Harris County Republican Chairman. During his three terms, Gary was described as the most successful county Chairman in America by Human Events - The National Conservative Weekly. He is in his twenty-second year of editing a newsletter dealing with key conservative and Republican issues. The last eighteen years he has edited Texas Conservative Review. As a public service for the last 16 years, Gary has published election guides for the GOP primary, general elections and city elections, all with the purpose of assisting conservative candidates. Gary is also in his 18th year of co-hosting Red, White and Blue on Houston Public Media TV 8 PBS Houston, longest running political talk show in Texas history. Gary serves on the Board of Directors of American Values, a national pro-family, pro-faith, conservative organization supporting the unity of the American people around the vision of our founding fathers and dedicated to reminding the public of the conservative principles fundamental to the survival of our nation. Gary is a practicing attorney and strategic consultant. He can be reached at (713) 621-6335.