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Two Articles of Impeachment

NYT: House Democrats signaled plans to release two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Since Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee made mincemeat of quid pro quo, extortion, bribery, and obstruction of justice charges one by one, Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee landed on brand new charges, which have not been mentioned before to skirt scrutiny.
Interestingly, neither abuse of power nor obstruction of Congress are among the reasons for impeachment prescribed by the Constitution. So it seems the Democrats are begging not to be taken seriously and to have their impeachment laughed off summarily by the Senate upon arrival.
The signaled two articles of impeachment (neither of which comports with Constitutional criteria for impeachment) may be a clever ploy to claim Democrats impeached Trump, while at the same time have their members claim to their constituents that they never voted for impeachment.
And there you have it. Full House vote next week.
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Nancy Pelosi Sets a Shameful Precedent

Never in the history of our republic has Congress ever drawn up articles to impeach a duly elected president without any crime having been legally established.
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1. IG Horowitz Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee

James Comey has been preening about having been vindicated by the IG Report. So let us hear Horowitz.

Lindsey Graham: "Does your report vindicate James Comey?"

Horowitz: "The report does not vindicate anyone involved."
2. Horowitz stated that intelligence briefings given to Clinton and Trump were treated very differently. Clinton briefing was conducted in a customary manner, whereas the intelligence briefing given to Trump was used to gather intelligence.

Everyone understands this was sleazy.
3. Everyone should watch the full opening remarks of Lindsey Graham, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He knocked it out of the ball park, with passion, with insight, with accuracy, and with an eye on the future of our country, while being very fair to FBI.
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Bansi Sharma
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President Trump is supposedly ready to sign an executive order which Jews want, that is unambiguously good for Jews and also for the country, and whose sole and specific purpose is to reduce hate crimes against Jews, and Trump opponents call Trump anti-Semitic for doing so.
Not for the first time.
Not for the first time.
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"If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was." -- Matt Taibbi
The vaunted "Steele dossier."
Talk about truthers!

"A “well-developed conspiracy” theory based on a report that Comey described as “salacious and unverified material that a responsible journalist wouldn’t report without corroborating,” became the driving news story in a superpower nation for two years."
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House panel to edit Trump articles of impeachment in rare evening session
Democrats on the judiciary committee to put finishing touches on House resolution 755, ‘impeaching Donald Trump’
Eager not to miss a stride in the impeachment process against Donald Trump, Democrats on the House judiciary committee scheduled a rare evening session Wednesday to put the finishing touches on the articles of impeachment unveiled Tuesday.
Beginning at 7pm, legislators will begin the process of editing House resolution 755, “impeaching Donald John Trump, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors”.
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(Thread 1/15) Some thoughts on today’s #impeachment news, which I wrote about @yesmagazine here: yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/1…
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One: moral. The impeachment clause in the Constitution was created by the framers to avoid an entirely foreseeable consequence: a ruler who is corrupt, criminal, and/or subject to foreign influence. (3/15)
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2. Did they really think that the witnesses they carefully screened before the public hearings were going to move the impeachment needle in their direction?
3. Did they seriously believe that opinion, hearsay, conjecture, and third-hand “evidence” from these witnesses would lay the groundwork for articles of impeachment?
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As @RitaKonaev notes, "Mattis had no problem disagreeing w/Obama about transgender people in the military or women in combat but won’t criticize Trump for asking foreign powers for dirt about political opponents.

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