How House Democrats can save democracy and the rule of law: Impeach Donald Trump ASAP

[DonViejo]

James Carroll, Opinion contributor Published 5:00 a.m. ET Dec. 17, 2018 | Updated 8:36 a.m. ET Dec. 17, 2018

James Carroll is an attorney and Democratic activist in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump has committed innumerable offenses not involving Russia collusion, right out in public. There are many good reasons for Democrats to impeach.

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Trump has committed innumerable impeachable offenses not involving Russia collusion, right out in public. He continues daily to launch impeachment-worthy broadsides that are chipping away at the country’s democratic institutions and the rule of law.

Trump’s offenses unrelated to Russia collusion include relentless obstruction of justice in the form of attacks on Mueller, the Justice Department, FBI, the media, former attorney general Jeff Sessions (fired), former FBI director James Comey (fired), and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein; dangling of pardons for former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former personal lawyer Michael Cohen; writing a false statement for Donald Trump Jr. about the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting; and promising a “warlike posture” in response to any House investigation, including using the Senate to retaliate.

“If we allow presidents to block, tamper with, and destroy the machinery of justice that is aimed at them, we do so at our peril," Elizabeth Holtzman, a member of the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, wrote in Salon. The rule of law will "go up in smoke," she said, and "we will find ourselves on the road to tyranny.”

Stop Trump before democracy fades

We don't need proof of Russia collusion to hold Trump accountable for refusing to call Russia to account for its cyberattacks during the 2016 election and since then and his role in the illegal payment of hush money to two women in order to influence the 2016 election.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/17/house-democrats-impeach-donald-trump-save-democracy-rule-law-column/2304517002/

[empedocles]

1. Suspect trump would personally prefer an earlier, weaker impeachment effort

to a better, stronger evidenced later impeachment process.

[greymattermom]

2. Wrong

Do a Benghazi and hold endless hearings. Subpoena everyone and everything. Have open hearings and invite the press.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. Instead of impeachment...

How about censure?

It has been done before to Andrew Jackson in 1834. Censure may be easier to sell to Republicans instead of impeachment. I know it may amount to a “slap on the wrist” but while he is dealing with censure, which may slow him down, the indictment “guidelines” may be reviewed to allow an indictment.