Justin Amash Steps Down From House Freedom Caucus After Calling For Trump's Impeachment

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Justin Amash Steps Down From House Freedom Caucus After Calling For Trump’s Impeachment

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justin-amash-freedom-caucus_n_5cff17fce4b0da64c5367f59

The Republican congressman has faced stiff criticism from his own party for his support of impeachment proceedings against the president.

By Dominique Mosbergen

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Amash, one of the Freedom Caucus’ founding members, told CNN that he’d announced his resignation at the group’s weekly board meeting on Monday. He said the meeting had been a “positive” one.

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Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019

Top GOP leaders, including the president himself, condemned Amash for his views. The House Freedom Caucus also distanced itself from the congressman, with former chairman Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio telling Politico in May that “every single” member who’d attended that week’s meeting “disagrees with what he says.”

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“I’d do it whether it was a Republican president or a Democratic president. It doesn’t matter. You elected me to represent all of you,” Amash told supporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last month. “Congress has a duty to keep the president in check .… And I think we owe it to the American people to represent them, to ensure that the people we have in office are doing the right thing, are of good character, aren’t violating the public trust.”




He'll never be one of us, but at least he has a conscience and he is the first and there will be more.

[Hortensis]

1. :) That's not a "step down," it's a step up.

But I'm not at all sure about that conscience thing. Where has it been all this time? He's not as much of a team player as the others and doesn't hold the line as they do, and as a libertarian he would supposedly be strongly for individual freedoms they would smash, and all that may be why we imagine we see a much finer animal than the rest. As if they didn't all reach those "conclusions" long ago and aren't perfectly aware that Trump is scum also.

For those who don't remember, the "Freedom Caucus" is the Republican house's counterpart to the LW dissidents who were willing to/hoped to/did help throw the election to the Republicans out of spite. They're extreme anti-government RWers who were mostly assisted into congress to serve the big dark-money donors by causing government dysfunction. They oppose to defeat instead of compromise sensibly to pass the legislation they were supposed to be elected for. Their goal, like their LW counterparts, is to take over, and if they can't they'll continue smashing and obstruction in the self-serving belief that "the people" are behind them. Dogs and fleas, even if one is something of a misfit.

[Achilleaze]

2. KGOP republicans will not tolerate American patriots

in case anyone had doubts...

[dewsgirl]

3. I had no idea he was a part of that extremist group of nutjobs.

[Tech]

4. I think he knows the so called freedom caucus is in its way out

[OliverQ]

5. Meanwhile, he also called members of the Freedom Caucus his friends.

Makes it hard for me to respect his stance here. If Meadows, Jordan, Nunes, Gaetz, etc. are your close friends, you need new friends who actually have morals.