Throwing GOP words back in their faces: The Reps' Arguments Against Impeachment Are All Terrible

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As the focus of impeachment talk has gone from the Mueller report to the potentially more damaging Ukraine scandal, many Republican lawmakers have gone from actively arguing against it to practicing “strategic silence,” but either stance is a betrayal of what conservatives claim to be deeply rooted constitutional principles.

Impeachment is undoing the act of the voters, goes the argument. Yes, it is, and that’s exactly the purpose of it. As Republicans have said for decades, the United States is not a democracy but a representative republic.
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What if the citizens who voted in Trump don’t care about his wrongdoing and, in fact, support him in spite of the many accusations against him? That’s not an excuse for legislators to ignore their sworn duty. In fact, conservative icon Edmund Burke touched on this in his “Speech to the Electors of Bristol”: Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

The question is not whether the constituents approve of impeachment of Donald Trump, but whether lawmakers judge that Trump should be impeached.

Should they judge so? Yes! These are the same people who argued that Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation’s financial corruption made her unfit to be president. If so, then so does the Ukraine scandal. - The Bulwark

It goes on, no less compelling to the end.

[Canoe52]

1. They impeached Bill over a BJ.

So what’s their problem with this?

[LiberalFighter]

2. Impeachment is not going against the will of the people...

1) Trump had 3 million fewer votes. Their voices and votes were not considered.

2) The Constitution provides for impeachment.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Great Article. So's this one ... from today and same site ...

https://thebulwark.com/its-not-just-trump/