Michelle Goldberg just made an excellent point about impeachment inquiries [View all]

[StarfishSaver]

In response to the claim that, absent a formal impeachment resolution passed by the full House, the Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry isn't official and/or doesn't carry the same weight, she explained that previous impeachment resolutions simply authorized the Judiciary Committee to begin conducting an imoeachment inquiry. In this instance, the committee is simply conducting that inquiry.

I hadn't thought about that, but she's absolutely right. And unless anyone's planning to argue that the Judiciary Committee's inquiry is somehow improper or violates any law or House rule (which it isn't and doesn't), the claim that it doesn't carry the same weight or is not "official" without a full House resolution is a non-starter.