The hand descends on the shoulder at last
Welp, it’s on.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday evening that the US House of Representatives will launch impeachment proceedings into Donald Trump, setting up an extraordinary constitutional clash over allegations he sought the help of a foreign country to harm a political rival.
“The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law,” Pelosi said on Capitol Hill moments after 5pm on Tuesday.
After months of resistance amid calls from many fellow Democrats in Washington, Pelosi determined that Trump’s alleged conduct and his administration’s refusal to comply with congressional requests for information and testimony has forced the House’s hand, leaving them no choice but to move forward with a formal impeachment inquiry.
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The sharp change of course comes as Democrats from across the party amplified their calls from impeachment after revelations of a whistleblower complaint that the intelligence community’s internal watchdog, Gen Michael Atkinson, deemed credible and an “urgent concern”. The White House has refused to share the complaint with Congress as typically required by law, arguing that the allegations do not fall within the intelligence community whistleblower statute.
With impeachment, from what I understand, it will be harder for the trumpies to refuse to hand over the evidence.
I hope Trump is having a screaming fire-everyone pants-wetting meltdown right now.
I’m definitely concerned about the direction this is taking but at the same time you kinda have to impeach him at this time considering what he seems to have done…
It could even be good for the election; it’s still a big gamble.
This is so much more accurate than “strident avoidance” (my husband was quite amused by that term).
BKiSA – I’m concerned, too. I think we’re in damned if you do, damned if you don’t territory right now.
I’d rather be damned for collecting and publishing the evidence, and for pursuing truth and accountability, than for standing idly by while the ship of state is burned and sunk.
I’m with maddog1129. I view an impeachment investigation and proceedings as the minimal moral duty of the Democratic Party.
If any US President has ever deserved to be impeached, then surely Trump deserves it. If our system of government cannot hold a President as lawless as Trump to account, then our Constitution isn’t worth the parchment on which it is printed.
(And who knows, maybe this will light a fire under the asses of our Congressional Representatives and Senators to finally take back some of the power that has been stolen from them by the Executive Branch over the last 40 to 50 years.)
Oh, I definitely agree that we need to do this. I just don’t want to get my hopes up. (And I don’t want to give Pence an incumbent’s advantage in a later run for the presidency – he could be almost as dirty as Trump, but I don’t think we have the evidence to demonstrate it if he is).