Dems feel growing pressure on impeachment

[babylonsister]

Dems feel growing pressure on impeachment
By Mike Lillis - 03/02/19 02:00 PM EST


House Democratic leaders are facing new pressures over a radioactive debate they've fought to keep under wraps: the impeachment of President Trump.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has confronted the question since the earliest days of Trump's White House tenure, hoping to discourage any talk of ousting the president so long as the effort remains strictly partisan.

But a group of liberals in her ranks have pressed on, introducing articles of impeachment while threatening additional floor votes on the legislation. And this week's explosive testimony by Trump's former personal attorney, who lodged a string of allegations that the president broke numerous laws before and since he took office, has only fueled the impeachment push — and complicated efforts by Democratic leaders to prevent debate over the volatile "I" word from cascading into an intraparty free-for-all.

Appearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Michael Cohen told lawmakers that Trump had a direct hand in distributing hush money payments to a porn star during the 2016 campaign — payments that would violate campaign finance laws — and also steered an unsuccessful effort to expand his business empire in Russia even as he was seeking the White House.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who introduced articles of impeachment in the last Congress, told The New York Times after the hearing that impeachment "is almost going to be impossible not to deal with."

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), another impeachment supporter, told MSNBC that Congress has a constitutional responsibility to check Trump's business dealings because "this is not going to be our last CEO" in the White House. And impeachment advocates off of Capitol Hill are pointing to Michael Cohen's testimony as just the latest — and perhaps most damning — evidence that Trump is unfit for office.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432288-dems-feel-growing-pressure-on-impeachment

[Butterflylady]

1. He's not only unfit for office

He's unfit to be an American.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. The next two weeks will tell how soon

or if never the impeachment thing happens.

[empedocles]

3. Watergate took 2 years since the first House hearing before Nixon resigned.

It took investigations, and time, to get the case, legal and political into the range where they would likely be successful.

Here, the House is just getting started. Pelosi knows the importance of trying to get things right. Pespective; legal, political, and historical, will be helpful. This case is still in the learning and public education phase. The Speaker remembers people clamoring for Mueller to 'act', last summer for god's sake.

Pelosi, Schumer, Mueller and the other legals, may be able to do great work - if the 'impatient ones', etc. don't screw things up?