Posted on 09/24/2019 9:57:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–N.Y.) announced the initiation of a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon.
This launch of an impeachment inquiry comes after this weekend’s revelations that President Trump requested damaging information from the Ukraine government about presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is leading the race for the Democratic nomination in the majority of public opinion polls.
Impeachment has “no legal standard,” according to Prof. David Bateman, government. The process is meant to be entirely political –– not “partisan or tawdry,” Bateman said, but considering if the “whether the president’s actions have harmed the polity.”
A motion to impeach formally begins the process to remove a sitting president. The judiciary committee, chaired by Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), may pass a resolution of impeachment, including the accused offenses, before it is debated and voted on by the house as a whole. Once a majority of the house passes the resolution of impeachment, the measure goes to the Senate where a two-thirds vote is required to convict the President.
As of 11 p.m. on Tuesday, 203 house representatives — 202 Democrats and one independent — had publicly voiced their support for an impeachment inquiry, according to The New York Times. 218 would constitute a simple majority.
Leaders of campus political organizations had mixed reactions to the news about the impeachment inquiry.
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Being they will not be doing anything new that they haven’t been doing the last 2 1/2 years, why celebrate an inquiry. Take a vote for investigating and put everyone on record.
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REALITY CHECK Pelosi did not establish a formal investigation.
In order to start a formal inquiry WRT impeachment, it requires a house vote.
Pelosi does not want this.
If she was serious, she would have held a house vote today and not a stupid talking-point presser.
Until there is a house vote to start a inquiry, this is all a convoluted scheme to provide cover for Biden and his druggie, worthless son.
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