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13. More Democrats making case for impeachment

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 12:43 PM

Apr 2019

By RYAN BORT

... Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reinvigorated the prospect last Friday when she joined fellow presidential candidate Julián Castro in calling for the House to take action to remove the president from office. “The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty,” she wrote on Twitter. “That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.”

Momentum continued to build over the weekend, with House Judiciary Chairman Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY), House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) all said .. that they could be open to the idea. “History would smile upon us for standing up for the Constitution,” Cummings said when asked whether Senate Republicans striking down the effort to impeach Trump should be considered ...

Trump, meanwhile, is living on another planet ...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-trump-impeachment-825841/

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I am done being wishy-washy. Impeach him. Now [View all] struggle4progress Apr 2019 OP

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