Thread by @gtconway3d

.@tribelaw: “Despite ... President Donald Trump’s boasts, the Mueller report doesn’t come close to exonerating the president of wrongdoing. Instead, it invites Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings. It’s time for Congress to heed that invitation.”
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The House Judiciary Committee “committee must open hearings into whether Trump has committed ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ warranting removal .... These hearings must ... must begin immediately, using the redacted report as a road map.”
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“Congress must uncover the full facts of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, [and] how [Trump] welcomed, benefited from, repaid, and obstructed lawful investigation into that interference and the president’s cooperation with it.”
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“The report is unequivocal in concluding that even if Trump is criminally innocent of obstruction, it is not for lack of trying. The main reason the investigation wasn’t completely thwarted was ...that Trump’s subordinates refused to comply.”
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“Trump’s decision to respond to the report by taking a victory lap rather than protecting our election systems from ongoing attack, and the likelihood that he continues to be compromised by leverage (financial or otherwise) from adversaries, ....
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... [reflects] a president indifferent to the security of the nation ... and to the Constitution .... Allowing such a president to remain immune not only from indictment but also from removal would betray Congress’s own responsibility ....”

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“[I]mpeachment is now a point of principle and duty. Postponing impeachment ... no longer makes sense. Any such postponement would not only be unprincipled. ... To quote Brutus, ‘We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.’”
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