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Kyle Cheney
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Significant: a Democrat from a swing district backs an impeachment inquiry. Porter is one of the party’s designated frontline members to defend in 2020 >>>
She’s the second frontline Democrat - @RepMalinowski is the other — to support impeachment proceedings.
Lot of talk about how impeachment movement has stalled in recent days, but Porter is the fourth new Democrat to embrace proceedings since Friday.
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Kyle Cheney
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NEW: GOP allies of President Trump are hoping to use his Capitol Hill testimony to raise doubts about his report and his integrity. A look at their strategy — and how Mueller might fend them off, w/ @MZanona @dsamuelsohn @NatashaBertrand

politico.com/story/2019/07/…
Members like Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes and Andy Biggs are among the 25 Republicans who get to grill Mueller next month.

Louie Gohmert has hated Mueller for more than a decade and told us he considers Mueller an “anal opening.” He’ll also get five minutes. politico.com/story/2019/07/…
The toughest questions, though, are likely to come from Rep. Jim JORDAN, who plans to press Mueller on when he determined not to charge any Americans with conspiring with Russia and whether the bias of Pete Strzok influenced the probe. politico.com/story/2019/07/…
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Kyle Cheney
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JUST IN: The Ethics Committee has launched an investigation into Rep. GAETZ for refusing to cooperate with initial inquiries about his veiled threat to reveal embarrassing information about Michael Cohen. Story TK.
Reached for comment, Gaetz didn't sound like he intends to cooperate with this new probe either:

"If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it’s certainly their prerogative. I won’t be joining them in the endeavor. Too busy. “
NEW: A formal House Ethics Committee's investigation of Matt Gaetz was launched today after he blew off the panel's initial May 16 inquiry about this since-deleted tweet. politico.com/story/2019/06/…
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Kyle Cheney
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BREAKING: Here’s the letter Schiff and Nadler sent to Mueller accompanying their subpoena to testify on July 17.
And here is the text of the MUELLER subpoena:
MUELLER who hasn't testified on Capitol Hill in years, will testify to two committees "back to back" according or @RepAdamSchiff (h/t @heatherscope)

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Peter Daou
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THREAD: DEBUNKING ANTI-IMPEACHMENT ARGUMENTS

I wrote a piece taking apart the specious arguments against #impeachment

You know, things like "the Senate won't convict..." "It's too divisive..." "Trump is goading Dems..." and so on.

peterdaou.com/no-good-argume…
SPIN: The Senate won’t convict so there’s no point impeaching in the House.

FACT: It doesn't matter what the Senate does. The Constitution demands impeachment.
SPIN: Democrats need to gather more evidence to make an airtight case for impeachment.

FACT: We don't need more evidence.
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Oeishik M.G. C. JD
@TributeProjects
A note on #impeachment -

In a court of law, under non-presidential circumstances, impeachment is a tool litigation attorneys use to discredit the opposing side's witnesses at trial. When said witness takes the stand under oath attys. present evidence contrary to what the witness
claims. This weakens the other side's case by discrediting impeached witnesses's testimony. Once a witness has been impeached - by presentment of inconsistent testimony - the judge/jury can no longer use the impeached witnesses's testimony in reaching a verdict.
Simply put, they aren't trustworthy. In the case of Presidential impeachment that broad definition of impeachment applies, but the impeachment tool is used for a very different purpose. Under the Constitution, a sitting President cannot be tried in a court of law for anything.
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Joseph Britt
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Vigorous #impeachment discussion yesterday between polls and elections expert @NateSilver538 (con) and former Harry Reid person @AJentleson (pro). The subject is worth a thread.
2. As with most issues before Congress, substance and politics are closely related but distinguishable. As to substance, the argument -- persuasive to me -- is that obstruction of justice, contacts with Russians seeking to influence a US election, corruption and the rest...
3...will do mortal damage to American democracy if tolerated. Not proceeding toward impeachment proceedings means tolerating all of these things, though it is possible to deceive oneself on that point. The political argument @NateSilver538 makes is about American voters.
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Joshua Matz
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In this article, @Sulliview argues that "talk of impeachment, all-but-taboo in Big Media’s coverage of Trump, [has] moved from the margins into the mainstream." She attributes that development mainly to a prominent essay in @TheAtlantic. That's not right. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
There's no denying that #impeachment talk has accelerated over the past few months. But I'm not convinced that this past week was really such a Rubicon when considered in broader perspective, or that a handful of well-argued essays in liberal magazines are the drivers of change.
For starters, there's been no shortage of impeachment talk in mainstream publications since Trump took office. I've gathered quite a few such articles in this @ShallTakeCare database, which includes analyses tracing back to before Trump even took office. takecareblog.com/blog/impeachin…
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Laurie Garrett
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This is a bombshell. @TheAtlantic calls for #Trump impeachment. Because he has waged, "an attack on the very foundations of America’s constitutional democracy."

"#Impeachment is a process, not an outcome, a rule-bound procedure..."

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theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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"...for investigating a president, considering evidence, formulating charges, and deciding whether to continue on to trial."
"By denying the debate its proper outlet, #Congress has succeeded only in intensifying its pressures."
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"And by declining to tackle the question head-on, it has deprived itself of its primary means of reining in the chief executive."
"Congress can’t outsource its responsibilities to federal prosecutors. No one knows when #Mueller’s report will arrive, what form..."
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