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Judiciary approves new investigative powers with eyes on impeachment
The Hill ^ | 09/12/19 | Mike Lillis and Olivia Beavers

Posted on 09/12/2019 9:46:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday to broaden the panel’s powers to investigate President Trump as Democrats seek to build their case for impeachment — and clean up their oversight message amid a month of mixed signals.

The move does not launch a formal impeachment process, but marks the first time a Democratic panel has voted on language that explicitly lays out how the party’s ongoing investigations into alleged presidential misconduct could lead to drafting — and eventual votes on — impeachment articles.

The partisan 24-17 vote followed more than two hours of feisty debate, as Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) made Democrats’ case for securing disputed information from an uncooperative administration, and Republicans rushed to Trump’s defense with accusations that Democrats are pretending to pursue impeachment without actually doing so.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; impeachment; judiciary; nadler; trump
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1 posted on 09/12/2019 9:46:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Let these idiots run with it.


2 posted on 09/12/2019 9:47:06 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: yesthatjallen

What a loser.


3 posted on 09/12/2019 9:48:28 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: yesthatjallen

New Powiz


4 posted on 09/12/2019 9:48:30 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: Howie66

“Double Secret Impeachment”


5 posted on 09/12/2019 9:48:56 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: yesthatjallen

2020 is gonna be one for the record books.


6 posted on 09/12/2019 9:50:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: yesthatjallen

They are evil and insane.


7 posted on 09/12/2019 9:51:08 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: yesthatjallen
Question - How can the House approve increasing its own powers?

I think I know the answer but I am just testing.


8 posted on 09/12/2019 9:51:37 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Howie66

Yup. This is going to guarantee Trump’s re-election. Anyone who is not a hardcore partisan Democrat will be completely turned-off.


9 posted on 09/12/2019 9:51:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: headstamp 2

Dean Wormer would be very proud.


10 posted on 09/12/2019 9:53:43 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: yesthatjallen

They have nothing. They are still fishing for a crime. That’s the only sort of investigation they plan to do.

I say they just cut to the chase and flat out vote “Guilty”. You know that’s all they want to do.


11 posted on 09/12/2019 9:54:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Howie66

I dunno.

This can end up being hugh.

and series.

SMH

They never learn and are blinded by hate.

Which is actually a good thing for us because they have NO OTHER agenda.

BECAUSE WE HATE TRUMP doesn’t impress voters.


12 posted on 09/12/2019 9:55:05 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Commies have definitely overstepped on this horse hockey.

Bless their hearts.


13 posted on 09/12/2019 9:55:11 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: yesthatjallen

There will never even be an impeachment vote in committee, much less on the House floor.

It’s all BS for their their base, who is too stupid to know what’s going on.


14 posted on 09/12/2019 9:55:13 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: cuban leaf
I think so, too. Disruptive and destructive.....have they done anything good for the country??
15 posted on 09/12/2019 9:56:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: yesthatjallen

Super Duper Nads Scooper.


16 posted on 09/12/2019 9:57:32 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

So far all it generates are fun SciFi stories!


17 posted on 09/12/2019 9:57:52 AM PDT by Reily
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To: yesthatjallen
Jabba the Nadler would have an easy job if only he could find a high crime or misdemeanor. Having to make one up is much more difficult.
18 posted on 09/12/2019 9:59:46 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: ClearCase_guy
They have nothing. They are still fishing for a crime.

Agree.

Even if they don't find anything by running 'on-going investigations' they can the idea Trump is guilty of something in news.

The Democratic Media Complex will keep the narrative going.

19 posted on 09/12/2019 10:00:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The Democrats went on television and said they were going to impeach him and they did this before even took office.

And no one on the left including all of their sycophants in the media saw nothing wrong with this.

A Democrat that I knew for a long time, a well-educated and intelligent individual but a very strong leftist, told me quite seriously that he thought the Republican Party should be outlawed that we should have one party, the Democrats. I was stunned because he was not being facetious or making a joke, or saying something extreme to make a point. He clearly meant that there should be one party, the Socialist Party.


20 posted on 09/12/2019 10:00:44 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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