Impeachment

On Monday morning, four House Democrats unveiled a single article of impeachment against President Trump over his role in last week’s Capitol riots. The charge is “incitement of insurrection,” and its explanation is straightforward. The article recounts the president’s role in Wednesday’s chaos, concluding that Trump “gravely endangered the security of the United States. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government.” … [Read more...] about Read the House’s Impeachment Article Against President Trump

“Those who supported this effort supported the efforts to overturn the results of a presidential election based upon a lie, a total abject falsehood that was meant not just to mislead but to mislead and incite people to take the action they took this past week, which is an act of violence and terrorism,” says Pennsylvania’s senior senator. … [Read more...] about Pa. Senator Bob Casey Calls For Pres. Donald Trump’s Impeachment

They include, Fred Upton of Michigan, along with the third-highest ranked Republican house member, Liz Cheney of Wyoming. She announced her support with Congressmen John Katko of New York and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. … [Read more...] about House Democrats Plan Vote To Impeach President Donald Trump With Some Republican Support

Brooks spoke at Wednesday’s Stop the Steal rally on the Ellipse near the White House along with the president, and as Intelligencer’s Ed Kilgore points out, he arguably “incited violence more clearly than did Trump, telling the crowd that ‘today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.’” He also asked the crowd, many of whom later joined in the mob siege of the Capitol, whether they were willing to sacrifice their lives: … [Read more...] about House Poised to Impeach Trump for Second Time: Live Updates

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s pro-Trump protest planned to do harm. … [Read more...] about House Votes to Impeach Trump: Live Updates

The big media narrative going into today’s vote was an impending Republican revolt against (or abandonment of) Trump in both Houses. Only one House Republican (Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington) spoke on behalf of impeachment in the two-hour floor debate (or the preliminary procedural debates), though another, House GOP Conference chair Liz Cheney, was quoted repeatedly by Democrats as condemning Trump’s “betrayal” of his oath. In the end, no Democrats opposed impeachment and 10 Republicans (in addition to Beutler and Cheney, they were David Valadao of California, John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Peter Meijer and Fred Upton of Michigan, Tom Rice of South Carolina, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, and Dan Newhouse of Washington) supported it. And while the top two House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy and Steven Scalise, emphasized the haste of impeachment proceedings and the imminence of Trump’s departure, the bulk of Republican speakers called … [Read more...] about Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached Twice