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In reply to the discussion: I'll be blunt. Democrats help "normalize" Trump if we wait for an election to hold him accountable [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)As well it should in the normal process of oversight of any normal administration, let alone the current one. There has not been a presidency that I know of that has not been subject to congressional oversight hearings. Though, from what I can tell, no modern president has so consistently advanced as unconstitutional an assertion of executive power and right to ignore congressional oversight as Trump has.
Congressional hearings have an ongoing important role to play. Impeachment inquiries have an exceptional role to play under extraordinary circumstances. From the length of the list assembled a strong case can be made that the threshold has already been crossed to warrant the latter. Unless one argues that normal congressional oversight mechanisms have made the impeachment process duplicative and uncalled for.