Posted on 03/20/2017 10:55:57 AM PDT by drewh
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, said that President Donald Trump's repeated claims he was wire tapped by former President Barack Obama could provide grounds for impeachment if a Monday hearing with the FBI director does not produce evidence to substantiate the allegation.
James Comey is scheduled to testify before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Monday, and Jackson Lee said she expects lawmakers to demand an answer on whether the president had grounds for accusing his predecessor of a crime.
The president tweeted on March 4 to his nearly 27 million followers he had "just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump tower." He reiterated the claim in two more tweets that accused Obama of "a new low" and called him a "bad (or sick) guy."
"If you do not have any proof and you have been saying this for three weeks," Jackson Lee said, "then you are clearly on the edge of the question of public trust and those actions can be associated with high crimes and misdemeanors for which articles of impeachment can be drawn."
Impeachment proceedings against U.S. president Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were both conducted based on allegations of "high crimes and misdemeanors" one of three impeachable offenses listed in the U.S. Constitution, alongside treason and bribery. Scholarly works, including one by founding father Alexander Hamilton, have named violations of public trust within that category.
Any article of impeachment would originate in the House Judiciary Committee, where Jackson Lee serves as a senior member. That article would be sent to the House chamber for a hearing and a vote, then sent to the Senate, which would either convict or acquit the president. Impeachment proceedings would require Republican support to pass in both chambers, Lee conceded.
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“can they make the Mars rover go up to the little flag that we planted all those years back..?”
Maxine Waters must be off today.
An impeachment attempt may trigger an armed resistance. Just sayin’...
Off course, she is OFF everyday. Bada bing Bada boom.
ROTFL. One of the DNC’s key “tokens”. She does a lot better when she just keeps her big mouth shut.
Your party has got to be able to control congress first, genius.
I liked Trump's joke about he and Angela Merkel having something in common, both being bugged by Obama.
He just repeated what the NY Times printed?
I’m sure that she believes that impeachment involves fruit.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston hahahahahahahahahahahahhaahha, snort, snort, hahahahahahahahahhaahaha OMG, she is pathetic. What a sorry excuse for a congresscritter.
Since no one takes her seriously let her talk....what joke, a bad joke.
Somebody buy that woman a subscription to a free online dictionary. She clearly does not know the meaning of "crimes" or "misdemeanors", but I suspect she well knows the meaning of "high".
The moron at Yale that gave this doofus a degree oughta be drawn and quartered.
You’d get unanimous votes for that initiative.
So... the heavily weighted left side of the bell-curve is speaking.
What is it about black leftists that makes them utterly retarded?
Seems a little vague on the concept.
Top Ten Reasons: Leftists Want Trump Impeached
10. He wears expensive shoes, offending the poor
09. He is married to a pretty woman, offending women who don’t take care of themselves
08. His 11 year old son is White
07. He enrolled his son in an elitist school
06. Unlike anyone else, he said some naughty things
05. His ticket was total White bread
04. His family is disgusting
03. Hillary won California by a large margin, giving her the nationwide popular vote lead
02. The Russians! Dammit, the Russians!
01. They want him dead, and you can’t be president if your dead
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Well, at least this form of Democrat frivolity keeps these “old gray mares” occupied ...
She has the cutest nose that I have ever seen.
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