@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal The Calif Democrat is 2-0 on the impeachment battlefield so far, after leading a panel that secured House impeachments of two federal judges in 2009 and 2010, respectively. One judge’s ouster was completed over a month’s time, while the process for the other took two years
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Schiff also led the prosecution team in the Senate trials, which saw one judge removed from office and the other resign before the trial got far. Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached, and Schiff played a key role in two of those cases.
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal If the House impeaches Trump, Schiff likely will be among the managers in the Senate trial that follows, said Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, who in 2010 observed and wrote about the most recent impeachment trial for a judge.
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal "From his prior experience, you would think that Schiff would understand how serious a matter like this is,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal. “I’m still just shocked and dismayed by his behavior at that intelligence hearing where he made up a satirical parody
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal That to me shows he’s got the wrong attitude about this, and he is letting his personal dislike of the president interfere with his constitutional duties.”
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Several fact-checkers also took Schiff to task for not telling the truth when he said neither he nor his office had previous contact with the whistleblower in the case.
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal FactCheck.org said Schiff was “wrong.” The Washington Post gave him “four Pinocchios,” the highest rating for a lie. PolitiFact ranked his claim as “false.”
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal “He’s acting totally contrary to how he acted before. Those two federal judges being impeached, that was very much a bipartisan matter,” von Spakovsky said.“ “And yet here Schiff is acting in a very non-bipartisan way” “You would think he would know better.”
