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House Democrats are Taking Things Slow

18 Tuesday Dec 2018

Posted by crosbysamuel in Articles, Uncategorized

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Frank Bowman, Impeachment, impeachment debates, investigation, nancy pelosi, oversight committee, Robert Mueller, saudi arabia, speaker of the house, Special Counsel, The House of Representatives, turkey, united arab emirates

Politco reports that Nancy Pelosi, incoming Speaker of the House, is reining in impeachment efforts in order to give Special Counsel Robert Muller more time with his investigation. She is joined in this effort even by progressive Democrats who voted to start impeachment efforts last year, such as Rep. Pramila Jayapal. Though representatives, such as California Rep. Eric Swalwell, recognize that the campaign finance law violations, established by Michael Cohen when he confessed to paying hush money to models Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, do constitute impeachable offenses, they feel they do not alone justify impeachment. It has been suggested that this may be in part because they are reluctant to risk the blow-back that Republicans faced after the impeachment of President Clinton for the mild offenses brought incident to the Lewinsky scandal. They are however planning to start oversight hearings in January.

House Democrats are wise to wait. With new reports that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey may have had their hands in President Trump’s election, it is apparent that whatever conspiracy exists, it has many more as of yet not-established parts. Additionally, as Professor Bowman has written, the impeach-ability of Trump rests on the slue of missteps he has committed since before and during his presidency. It will take the whole of his crimes, well established by Mueller’s investigation, to justify impeachment efforts.

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