It begins...a call for impeachment in the House

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53. The impeachment process takes however long Congress wants

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In the Clinton impeachment, the House moved very quickly. The Starr Report was delivered to the House on September 9, 1998. The House voted to authorize the Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment inquiry on October 8. The Judiciary Committee voted out Articles of Impeachment on December 11 and 12, and the full House impeached President Clinton on December 19.

In the Nixon impeachment, the House authorized the Judiciary Committee to begin an inquiry in February 1974. The first hearing was held on May 9 and the Judiciary Committee approved Articles of Impeachment in late July.

No, I don't think it's too late and it will be quite a while before it is. If there is an impeachment inquiry, I certainly don't think it should be rushed through like Republicans did with Clinton, but if the right groundwork is laid in advance and the Committee doesn't have to do a full blown investigation, an impeachment inquiry can move fairly quickly. Ideally, the Committee wouldn't be doing a lot of original investigation - that should have been done by the various committees currently investigating Trump - but could focus primarily in the question of whether the wrongdoing uncovered constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors, what should be included in the Articles of Impeachment and how they should be drafted.