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Showing Original Post only (View all)So what is the hold up on impeachment? [View all]
It's nearly June and it's still just talk. At this rate he's gonna destroy the country before there's even a vote!
I would like to see our leaders demanding impeachment now and twisting arms to get it on the vote schedule.
I was sure after the election, that he wouldn't make it a year, now - I'm not so sure.
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You want to give Democratic members the boot for not exercising a power they don't have
onenote
May 2017
#43
You said you want our leaders to twist arms to get impeachment on the vote schedule
onenote
May 2017
#59
Yes, Maxine Waters has spoken of impeachment. How is that twisting anyone's arm?
onenote
May 2017
#68
Friendly advice- impeachment, if it happens at all, is gonna be a long haul.
Warren DeMontague
May 2017
#56
I think theres an actual chance, if there is serious evidence that cant be hidden or explained away
Warren DeMontague
May 2017
#46
It requires a majority in the House to impeach and 67 votes in the Senate to convict
Spider Jerusalem
May 2017
#29
While technically correct Velveteen, if Nixon hadn't resigned, he would have been convicted. That
still_one
May 2017
#61
In that case, true. Only a simple majority is needed in the House to impeach,
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2017
#62
There is a difference between recovering as a party and launching impeachment proceedings.
LonePirate
May 2017
#57
For Nixon it took over a year and a half, and a lot of investigations were done. The investigation
still_one
May 2017
#60
This flurry of anti-Booker attacks suggests to me that he's a TRUE DEMOCRATIC CONTENDER in 2020!
NurseJackie
May 2017
#71