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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPelosi's Own Leadership Team Demands Trump Impeachment
After the Trump administration instructed former White House counsel Don McGahn to refuse to comply with a Judiciary Committee subpoena to testify, several members of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership team privately confronted the Democratic leader late Monday and demanded impeachment proceedings against the president immediately in response to the latest attempt to stonewall congressional oversight.
According to the Washington Post, at least "five members of Pelosi's leadership teamfour of whom also sit on the House Judiciary Committee, with jurisdiction over impeachmentpressed Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a closed-door leadership meeting to allow the panel to start an [impeachment] inquiry, which they argued would help investigators attain documents and testimony that Trump has blocked."
One of the lawmakers who reportedly pressed Pelosi to approve impeachment proceedings on Monday was House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who has faced calls to act as his repeated attempts to investigate President Donald Trump and administration officials have been brazenly denied by the White House.
"The meeting marks the first time a chairman and top rank-and-file lawmakersincluding members of Pelosi's leadership teamhave lobbied her to change her long-held position on impeachment," the Post reported.
If McGahn doesn't show up for his scheduled testimony before the Judiciary Committee at 10:00am ET Tuesday, "a core group of Judiciary Democrats plans" to begin publicly calling for impeachment proceedings against Trump, according to the Post.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/21/revolting-against-speakers-refusal-act-pelosis-own-leadership-team-demands-trump
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Pelosi's Own Leadership Team Demands Trump Impeachment (Original Post)
pdsimdars
May 2019
OP
Then again . . . Heard some great analysis on Lawrence O'Donnell about that court ruling
pdsimdars
May 2019
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Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)1. Enabling
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)2. good
They need to start the public call for it
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)3. Then again . . . Heard some great analysis on Lawrence O'Donnell about that court ruling
by Mehta. They noted that the judge made it very clear that congress had full authority even without going for impeachment. So, according to this ruling, they don't need to go that far because their inherent right to investigate anything they want had been upheld over and over.
so, . . . .