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Home Front: Politix
Could This Be The 1st Step In The Impeachment Process? Democrat Files 'Resolution of Inquiry' on Trump
2017-02-13
[ThRoot] A senior member of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a Resolution of Inquiry on Thursday that directs the Department of Justice to provide the House of Representatives with any and all information relevant to an inquiry into President Trump and his associates’ conflicts of interest, ethical violations (including the Emoluments Clause), and Russia ties.
I've been having a conversation on Facebook with a true believer. She honestly thinks that the Congress will impeach and remove Trump. I keep pointing out that the Pubs distracted themselves for eight years by thinking that any day now they'd impeach Champ. How'd that work out? And impeaching Bush. We did impeach Clinton, and what did we get for that? So go ahead, I told her, work yourself to the bone in an effort to impeach Trump. I certainly can use the entertainment.
The House Judiciary Committee has 14 days to debate and vote on whether the resolution Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced should be introduced to the floor, and if it does not do so within that 14-day period, then the resolution can be brought to the floor in front of the full house for a vote.
Republican committee head: "Utter nonsense -- file in the circular file, and let's get in with the next confirmation."
According to the Washington Post, Nadler is "dusting off a little-used legislative tool to force a committee debate or floor vote on an issue."
"All in favour of filing in the circular file say, "Aye."
"AYE!"
"All opposed say "Nay."
"Nay."
"The ayes have it. The next item on the committee agenda is the next confirmation."
More from the Washington Post:

Nadler’s resolution asks Attorney General Jeff Sessions to provide "copies of any document, record, memo, correspondence, or other communication of the Department of Justice" that pertains to any "criminal or counterintelligence investigation" into Trump, his White House team or certain campaign associates; any investment made by a foreign power or agent thereof in Trump’s businesses; Trump’s plans to distance himself from his business empire; and any Trump-related examination of federal conflict of interest laws or the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

The full text of Nadler’s resolution can be read here.

Nadler is the No. 2-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, and he said that the move came after Democrats sent two letters to Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), one on Nov. 30, 2016 and a second on Jan. 24, 2017, and another letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) asking for investigations into Trump’s financial entanglements.

"All of this demands investigation, and of course they’ve refused," Nadler said Thursday at the House Democrats’ annual policy retreat here. "This resolution will force them to confront the issue."
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#10  If they were successful, Pence could take over and have Trump around as senior advisor.
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-13 13:40  

#9  Pence would of course keep Bannon, Flynn and Conway. If Cheney were unavailable, his daughter "Liz" or Newt, or Rudy Giuliani. We're quite flexible.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-13 13:00  

#8  Pence should let it slip in casual conversation that if Trump were forced to step down he'd try to convince Cheney to be his VP. The exploding heads would be well worth it and it would stop this nonsense dead.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-13 12:49  

#7  His team took the election.
Why do they think he's stupid?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-13 11:25  

#6  Pay about as much attention to this nonsense as Holder did to the congressional Fast and Furious investigation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-02-13 11:02  

#5  It could work if a substantial number of Republican Reps & Sens are willing to throw Trump under the bus in a uni-party deal to maintain the DC status quo. It would mean the Dem wing of the uni-party needs to support Pence as well. I suspect both wings will just prepare the ground for the next election, and we will see if they learned their lessons about dissing large blocks of their constituents.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-02-13 10:47  

#4  It will go no where except during the next election campaign. The dems will say that they tried to impeach him XX number of time only to be blocked by the evil republicans. They are setting themselves up for the next election cycle.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2017-02-13 09:27  

#3  Nadler wasn't so interested in impeaching his guy Obama despite ample grounds.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-13 08:45  

#2  A fishing expedition going nowhere. A lot of publicity for Nadler. Nadler is playing to his base which is very liberal.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-13 07:02  

#1  a fishing expedition

give us everything you've ever investigated so we've got ammo

i'm sure jeff sessions will get right on it...
Posted by: anon1   2017-02-13 05:50  

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