Callers Threaten Texas Lawmaker Who Seeks Trump Impeachment

If true, it could mean devastating consequences for the president, said Gergen, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both of whom faced the impeachment process.

U.S. Rep. Al Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, the Houston Chronicle reports.

For starters, top Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, have not gone there yet. I have to think that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is going to provide these documents willingly and I have to think that [former] Director Comey will come before the Congress willingly and I think we need to do both as soon as possible. I wasn’t aware of these memoranda until I read that article.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. Those all did indeed occur during the Obama years, except Republicans were too anxious about being called racists to protect the Constitution they swore an oath to defend.

The news came within a week of Trump’s dismissal of Comey and a day after reports that Trump had shared classified information with Russian Federation.

In fact, talk of impeachment has surrounded the president for some time, beginning before he even assumed office. Not just any crimes and misdemeanors, mind you. On Friday, a report from the Washington Post claimed that investigators had “identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest”. So even though this country has historically shown a willingness to give its chief executive a lot of latitude, let’s assume this Comey thing (or something else) qualifies.

For now, at least, using the power of the presidency to pursue a non-issue issue probably isn’t impeachable. And then there was President Nixon. Then a majority is required to impeach.

The Republican-controlled House voted on March 2, 1868, to impeach President Andrew Johnson after he resisted efforts to impose strict conditions on the re-entry of defeated Southern states.

Neither do we know enough about how and why the president shared highly confidential information with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister. The Clinton and Nixon examples offer crucial lessons about the importance of slowing down and ensuring that the public is confident that the gravity of the alleged conduct warrants the extraordinary and fundamentally undemocratic remedy of Congress removing the president from office. A third resigned in disgrace rather than face near-certain conviction. That’s 67 senators. Sixty-seven! Democratic candidates for other offices, like IL gubernatorial hopeful J.B. Pritzker, were flashing their progressive bona fides by calling for impeachment. He was acquitted too. Neither was convicted in the Senate.

Republicans – Trump is a Republican, remember – have a 238-193 majority in the House. As we have heard many times this week, the president can classify or declassify any sensitive information he wants.

And that would be the easy part. And the fact that Republicans control the House makes the goal at this point largely a “pipe dream”.

In another, a man’s voice says, “You ain’t going to impeach nobody, you ***”.

In most cases, there’s no evidence to back up the accusations.

“For President Trump, the drip, drip, drip of scandal has sidetracked, for example, healthcare and tax reform”, said Mr James Robenalt, author of January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam And The Month That Changed America Forever.

Soon thereafter another Republican lawmaker was seen supporting the impeachment move. Republicans would likely be better off if Trump were pushed off the stage. The sites spokesman Lee Price told CNBC that the probability that the President would not finish his first term is 4-6. The US also has regular elections. Yeah, it may take a little time, but this is not about us; this is bigger than us; this is bigger than President Trump.

Bettors in both countries are increasingly putting their money on the odds that Trump will be impeached before the year’s end.

The “case for impeachment” doesn’t exist – yet.