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Ornstein thinks Dems should move toward impeachment, but start with related hearings on report
Found his thread thanks to retweeting by Rick Wilson. Interesting ideas, especially the suggestion that experts like Preet Bharara should start these hearings.
Thread starts with this tweet. Full text below.
Link to tweet
Some thoughts on where Democrats should go from here. They have a clear constitutional responsibility to take the evidence and conclusions in this report to their logical conclusion. But I would not start with a formal impeachment process.
I would get the Judiciary, Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees to do thorough hearings and roundtables on every facet of the Mueller Report, getting every element and charge aired fully. Not in the usual hearing format. Get experienced counsel to do an hour to start
each hearing, questioning witnesses like Mueller and laying out the background and framework. Then do not fall back on usual five minute rounds for each member of the committee. Do fifteen minute rounds, many by counsel, but coordinated in advance to focus on particular elements
With followup questions. Do some roundtables with experienced prosecutors and intelligence professionals, like @PreetBharara @Mimirocah1 @jmclaughlinSAIS andChuck Rosenberg, along with election security experts and discuss in depth the nature of collusion, meaning of obstruction,
The Russian threat and other cybersecurity threats to the elections. After all this, with the foundation in place, it would be appropriate to move to an official impeachment inquiry. The message has to be that this is done predicated on powerful evidence of high crimes.
It would be foolish to jump the gun. It would be dereliction not to move in this direction.
I would get the Judiciary, Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees to do thorough hearings and roundtables on every facet of the Mueller Report, getting every element and charge aired fully. Not in the usual hearing format. Get experienced counsel to do an hour to start
each hearing, questioning witnesses like Mueller and laying out the background and framework. Then do not fall back on usual five minute rounds for each member of the committee. Do fifteen minute rounds, many by counsel, but coordinated in advance to focus on particular elements
With followup questions. Do some roundtables with experienced prosecutors and intelligence professionals, like @PreetBharara @Mimirocah1 @jmclaughlinSAIS andChuck Rosenberg, along with election security experts and discuss in depth the nature of collusion, meaning of obstruction,
The Russian threat and other cybersecurity threats to the elections. After all this, with the foundation in place, it would be appropriate to move to an official impeachment inquiry. The message has to be that this is done predicated on powerful evidence of high crimes.
It would be foolish to jump the gun. It would be dereliction not to move in this direction.
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