The House Judiciary Committee’s report on the legal and constitutional basis for impeaching President Donald Trump declares that impeachment is the “last and most extraordinary resort,” but ignores the fact that Democrats have been trying to impeach the president since well before he took office.
The impeachment report, signed by 20 members of the Democratic majority staff, appears to have been written in advance of the hearing.
The House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday in which it argued that a president may be impeached for “illegitimate motives” even if his actions are “legally permissible.”
A flashback video that resurfaced on Friday shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accusing Republicans of being “paralyzed with hatred” and pursuing the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton “with a vengeance.” Pelosi snapped at a reporter on Thursday after he asked if she hated President Trump.
A survey released Friday found swing district freshman Democrats could lose reelection over their decision to back the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
It is clear, in full context, that Trump was speaking about the extensive Mueller investigation, which had just concluded — and not about his Article II presidential power in general.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has done almost exactly what he and fellow Democrats accuse President Donald Trump of doing: he abused his power to ask an outside entity to investigate political opponents.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could imperil many vulnerable freshman Democrats, such as Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK), according to a poll released Thursday.
The White House said Thursday that Schiff’s impeachment report has the wrong number: no one ever called Giuliani from OMB, or vice versa.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is also acting as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, reportedly met and interviewed former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted impeachment-driven Democrats on Thursday for neglecting their duties as they pursue impeachment, noting that they are “too busy inviting law professors to criticize President Trump on television” to do their jobs.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) erupted following the conclusion of her Thursday morning press conference, angrily coming back to the podium after a reporter asked if she “hates” President Trump.
Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle on Thursday reacted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) call to move forward with impeachment, spurring celebration for congressional Democrats and words of warning from the GOP.
The House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday that it will hold its next impeachment inquiry hearing on Monday, the same day that the Justice Department inspector general’s Russia probe report is scheduled for release.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday reacted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) instructing House Democrats to move forward by drafting articles of impeachment, remarking, “no one is above the law.”
Some journalists are beginning to worry that their phone records may have been caught up in snooping conducted by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and revealed in the House Intelligence Committee’s 300-page impeachment report.
Vice President Mike Pence said the ongoing impeachment hearings sunk to a “new low” after Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan took a potshot at President Donald Trump’s youngest son, 13-year-old Barron Trump, while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Joe Biden ruled out the possibility that he would voluntarily testify in the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying to do so would “divert” away from the issue at hand.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo claimed on Wednesday evening’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time that constitutional scholars “concur” on President Donald Trump’s impeachment — after a day of sharp disagreement.
The Democrats’ anti-Trump impeachment witness, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, was too-far left for former President Obama to consider her as a Supreme Court nominee.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) violated his civil liberties by snooping in his phone records and publishing them in his impeachment report.
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman warned his readers against giving in to the tempting desire to patronize “white people who didn’t go to college” if Hillary Clinton were to win the presidential election.
Joe Biden endorsed a little-known Pennsylvania governor for president in 1975 around the same time the elected official helped his younger brother, James, secure a $300,000 bank loan to keep his troubled nightclub afloat.
Trump said to Ukraine’s president: “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot.” Not the “royal ‘We’.”
One of the Democrats’ star witnesses, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, invoked Barron Trump during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing in an attempt to attack the president, drawing sharp criticisms from the GOP.
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley testified at the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday that under Democrats’ “abuse of power” standard, it was possible that every U.S. president — including Barack Obama — could be impeached.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) warned of the dangers of partisan impeachment efforts during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, cautioning that it would “produce decisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come.”
The GOP is roasting Democrats for turning to liberal academia in hopes of adding legitimacy to their partisan impeachment inquiry.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) blasted House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing for claiming in his opening statement that the facts were “undisputed.”
Turley on impeachment: “If you make a ‘high crime and misdemeanor’ out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power.”
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses called to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, authored an op-ed in May lamenting the lack of seriousness surrounding efforts to impeach President Trump, and admitting that House Democrats “made it painfully clear that discussing impeachment is primarily or even exclusively a tool to weaken Trump’s chances in 2020.”
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) blasted his own party’s impeachment inquiry over the lack of diversity in the selection of witnesses, declaring it “hurts his heart” and asking, “What subliminal message are we sending to the world when we have experts but not one person of color?”
Norm Eisen, the counsel chosen by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to question “expert” witnesses Wednesday at its first impeachment inquiry, founded an organization funded in part by billionaire left-wing financier George Soros.
Turley: “This would be the first impeachment in history where there would be considerable debate — and, in my view, not compelling evidence — of the commission of a crime.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) kicked out staffers and required members to check their phones ahead of a caucus meeting on Wednesday in order to have a “candid” conversation with Democrat members on the impeachment inquiry, according to reports.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats killed a motion to call House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry, given his office’s central role in the whistleblower complaint that triggered inquiry.
House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) praised President Bill Clinton for his conduct during his impeachment in 1998, saying that he “physically gave his blood” during the investigation.
Democrat impeachment witness: ‘This president has attacked each of the Constitution’s safeguards against establishing a monarchy in this country.”
Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, one of three expert witnesses called by Democrats to testify on the first day of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry, donated $1000 to the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in July, according to to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded to President Trump’s reaction to her departure from the Democrat 2020 presidential primary race, promising to see him at his impeachment trial in the Senate.
