House Democrat leaders unveiled two proposed articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spoke for a few minutes about the proposed articles of impeachment at a morning press briefing.
There is an oblique reference in Impeachment Article II to "President Trump's previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections." Nadler and Schiff almost certainly wanted more explicit references to the Mueller investigation and alleged obstruction of justice in connection with that investigation, but this was as close as they managed to get.
The Senate will then conduct a trial to determine whether to convict President Trump on the two charges included in the articles and have him removed from office.
Impeachment Article II charges that "Donald J. Trump has directed the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives pursuant to its 'sole Power of Impeachment' President Trump thus interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, and assumed to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the 'sole Power of Impeachment' vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives."
The second article of impeachment charging the president with obstructing Congress thus boils down to Schiff's "We can't afford to wait" argument.
The House leadership's presentation of their two proposed impeachment articles came a day after Nadler conducted a nine-hour public hearing in which the Democrats tried to lay out the lame partisan case they are bringing against President Trump.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/house-democrat-leaders-push-baseless-articles-joseph-klein/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spoke for a few minutes about the proposed articles of impeachment at a morning press briefing.
There is an oblique reference in Impeachment Article II to "President Trump's previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections." Nadler and Schiff almost certainly wanted more explicit references to the Mueller investigation and alleged obstruction of justice in connection with that investigation, but this was as close as they managed to get.
The Senate will then conduct a trial to determine whether to convict President Trump on the two charges included in the articles and have him removed from office.
Impeachment Article II charges that "Donald J. Trump has directed the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives pursuant to its 'sole Power of Impeachment' President Trump thus interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, and assumed to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the 'sole Power of Impeachment' vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives."
The second article of impeachment charging the president with obstructing Congress thus boils down to Schiff's "We can't afford to wait" argument.
The House leadership's presentation of their two proposed impeachment articles came a day after Nadler conducted a nine-hour public hearing in which the Democrats tried to lay out the lame partisan case they are bringing against President Trump.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/house-democrat-leaders-push-baseless-articles-joseph-klein/
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