A California Democrat plans on re-introducing Thursdays articles of impeachment against President Trump, just as House Democrats take control of the new Congress, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), originally rolled out the measure in 2017, which includes allegations that Trump obstructed justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey.
Then, it was up to Republicans, who controlled the House and have largely remained aligned with Trump, whether to take the impeachment articles up. Now the decision rests with Democratic leaders, who have walked a careful line of not ruling out impeachment proceedings entirely but also not encouraging them.
“We have to wait and see what happens with the Mueller report,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who likely will be elected House speaker Thursday told NBC News, while referring to the report special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to write as part of his Russia investigation. “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”
Patience, Grasshopper…
Putting the cart before the (fat) horse…
Indeed.
I really hate when people grandstand like this. While I agree wholeheartedly that the tRump needs to be impeached at the very least it is well to remember that impeachment is as much a political process as it is a legal one. It is completely unrealistic to think this is going anywhere right now.
Give your freakin’ colleagues a chance to do some oversight and produce the evidence needed to make the real arguments needed for impeachment. At that point you can get the majority of the public on side and then - and only then - will you have a chance of changing the calculus in the senate and getting the required votes to remove him.
I know the Dems have felt like they’ve had no power for a long time so some think they should try to start all the changes on Day 1.
Things are about to get interesting. Just keep poking the [insert analogous creature that doesn’t deserve this here].