He voted for impeaching Clinton and fiercely opposes impeaching Trump.
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She voted against impeaching President Bill Clinton, and supports impeaching Trump.
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How it works: Impeaching a judge works just like impeaching a president.
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A larger percentage support impeaching Trump now than supported impeaching Trump then.
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The process for impeaching a federal judge is the same as impeaching a president.
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He opposed impeaching Clinton and has not yet expressed an opinion on impeaching Trump.
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It's not just impeaching Trump, it's impeaching Kavanaugh, it's unwinding the entire Trump program.
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Impeaching a Supreme Court justice it turns out, is a lot like impeaching a president.
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My book, "The Case Against Impeaching Trump," could just as easily have been the case against impeaching Hillary Clinton.
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There is more support for impeaching Trump right now than there was for impeaching Nixon or Clinton when proceedings began.
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Democrats briefly flirted with idea of impeaching Barr but have pivoted to the more ambitious task of impeaching the President.
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This -32 point gap for impeaching and removing Clinton stands in contrast to the +1 gap for impeaching and removing Trump.
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This was in relation to impeaching judges — but clearly impeaching a president would require this standard or an even higher one.
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Jared Golden, voted yes on impeaching Trump for abuse of power, but voted no on impeaching him for obstruction of Congress.
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Until now, at least, polls have shown that most Americans do not support impeaching Mr. Trump, just as they never embraced impeaching Mr. Clinton.
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As the Speaker of the House, Pelosi also has the responsibility of considering the risks to the country of either impeaching or not impeaching the president.
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The agency said that talk about impeaching Trump is also possibly illegal, because impeaching Trump means he would no longer be able to run for president.
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Those who are strongly against impeaching and removing the President from office outnumber the strongly for impeaching and removing the President from office crowd by 45% to 36%.
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Impeaching and removing a president is, of course, the most extreme step that Congress could take, but impeaching a justice, who has been confirmed by the Senate, comes close.
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Though overall support for impeaching Trump has ticked up over the past week, a CNBC All-America Economic Survey found that 88 percent of Republicans still opposed impeaching Trump.
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In fact, the current search volume for impeaching Mr. Trump is lower than the search volume for impeaching Mr. Bush was in September 2005 after his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
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Republicans won in 2000 (George W. Bush) after impeaching Clinton, a Democrat, in '98 Democrats won in 1976 (Jimmy Carter) after impeaching Nixon, a Republican, in '74 Republicans won in 1868 (Ulysses S. Grant) after impeaching Johnson in '68 So there is certainly grist for Trump's argument that impeachment will bring Republicans together.
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Republican: Impeaching IRS chief least Congress can do: House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday said that impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is the least Congress can do.
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"Impeaching him under circumstances where the proceeding is all but doomed to failure could create a far more disastrous precedent than not impeaching him in the first place," Mr. Matz said.
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At 35 percent according to the latest Monmouth poll, support for impeaching Trump remains substantially higher than public support for impeaching President Richard Nixon ahead of the first Watergate hearings in 1973.
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What would impeaching a dangerous president do to the country?
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"Pelosi is obsessed with impeaching President Trump," said one ad.
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Impeaching Koskinen is an issue that has divided House Republicans.
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No Republican member of Congress publicly supports impeaching Trump. Rep.
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And her stance on impeaching the President is nothing new.
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He didn't vote to impeach Clinton, but supports impeaching Trump.
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In theory, Republicans could solve these problems by impeaching Trump.
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He is also a vocal advocate of impeaching Mr. Trump.
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A majority of Americans have long opposed impeaching President Trump.
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Polling has shown support for impeaching Trump slowly ticking upward.
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The bottom line: There's some irony in Pelosi impeaching Trump.
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Lawmakers didn't change their partisan stances on impeaching the president.
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Only a handful of House Republicans ever broached the topic of impeaching President Obama during his presidency, and it took until the Iraq War for Democrats to seriously talk about impeaching George W. Bush.
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Eighty-eight percent of those who&aposd approve of a Klobuchar presidency say they "support" or "strongly support" impeaching Trump, while 287% say they "probably" or "definitely" support impeaching and removing him from office.
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But if impeaching a president for lying under oath about sex was partisan overreach then, impeaching President Trump now, when not even that much legal wrongdoing on his part has been proved, would be absurd.
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A minority of voters, 37%, were for impeaching and removing Trump.
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The House Republican leadership has demonstrated no enthusiasm for impeaching Koskinen.
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Jim Jordan said Friday that House Republicans are considering impeaching Koskinen.
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The calls for impeaching President Donald Trump are just getting started.
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For better or worse, however, they are now clearly impeaching Trump.
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What would not impeaching a dangerous president do to the country?
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Importantly, impeachment proceedings are not the same as impeaching a president.
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And of course impeaching the president but don&apost tell anyone.
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In 2016, Bentley's wife divorced him and lawmakers considered impeaching him.
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Unsurprisingly, support for impeaching President Trump is divided along partisan lines.
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Impeaching Trump, then, would constitute a re-normalization of public affairs.
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" Only 43% said the same when asked about "impeaching Donald Trump.
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The RSC does not have an official stance on impeaching Koskinen.
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Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), have discussed the possibility of impeaching Trump.
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Judiciary Committee proceeded on the matter of impeaching Richard Nixon, but
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Democrats run on impeaching Trump (which would fire up his base).
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Support for impeaching Richard Nixon reached 43% in March of 1974.
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He opposed impeaching Clinton, and backs the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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He opposed impeaching Clinton but backs initiating an inquiry against Trump.
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He has does not have a public stance on impeaching Trump.
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Douglas Schoen: Dems must beware impeaching Trump if blue wave prevails.
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But that didn't stop Republicans from impeaching Bill Clinton that December.
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He was one of two Democrats to vote against impeaching Trump.
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Of these voters, 21 percent oppose impeaching and removing Mr. Trump.
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Jerrold Nadler laid out a legal argument for impeaching the President.
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Yes, I agree with him as far as impeaching President Trump.
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Republicans, nevertheless, are accusing Democrats of impeaching a president in secret.
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Impeaching a President only takes a majority vote in the House.
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He has also shifted his position on impeaching President Donald Trump.
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She told The Washington Post that Trump is "not worth" impeaching.
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Sort of, kind of, impeaching the President makes no one happy.
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Already polls show a spike in support for impeaching the president.
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The House first voted to consider impeaching Nixon in February 1974.
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Pelosi has long been skeptical of the politics of impeaching Trump.
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Democrats could overreach, by quickly impeaching Trump and thereby uniting Republicans.
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House Democrats this month took the historic step of impeaching Trump.
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That means Democrats won't be unanimously in favor of impeaching Trump.
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She favors a measure to censure Trump rather than impeaching him.
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It's higher than the number who supported impeaching either Barack Obama or George W. Bush (around 29%-30% supported impeaching them, suggesting that 30% is roughly a baseline of pro-impeachment sentiment for a modern president).
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The public is more supportive of impeaching Mr. Trump than it ever was of impeaching Mr. Clinton and more than it was of beginning impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon until near the end of the Watergate scandal.
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You're considering removing somebody from office or impeaching them in that way.
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Impeaching a sitting president is one of Congress's most serious Constitutional responsibilities.
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He argues that impeaching Mr Trump would be wrong constitutionally, not politically.
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In a CNN poll from then, only 242% favored impeaching and removing.
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Asked about his own personal feelings on impeaching Trump, Nadler was unequivocal.
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They did not, as a party, run on investigating or impeaching Trump.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, AUTHOR, "THE CASE AGAINST IMPEACHING TRUMP": Well, more than disconcerting.
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HAHN: The factor was that the Republicans overreached in impeaching the President.
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No House Republicans supported impeaching Trump when that chamber voted on Dec.
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"Congress must move forward on impeaching him," Jordan said in a statement.
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"The Case for -- Against Impeaching Donald Trump," Harvard Law professor, Alan Dershowitz.
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The Democrats who talk about impeaching Trump ignore that and the numbers.
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Some Republicans also discussed the prospect of impeaching judges over the decision.
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The House Judiciary Committee convenes today to consider impeaching the I.R.S. commissioner.
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Even Democratic congressional leaders have shown no interest in impeaching Trump yet.
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A smaller number of Republicans proposed impeaching Barack Obama during his presidency.
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Impeaching the president may not be politically wise or even legally possible.
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After that meeting with Putin, O'Rourke had said he'd support impeaching Trump.
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"I stand by impeaching the president of the United States," Tlaib said.
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Exit polls revealed that 77 percent of Democratic voters support impeaching Trump.
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Steyer has also been a prominent advocate of impeaching President Donald Trump.
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There is also a mounting political cost to not impeaching Mr. Trump.
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Meadows and other Trump allies have been discussing impeaching Rosenstein since April.
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This August, Trump seems to be on a path of impeaching himself.
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He voted against impeaching Clinton and said he should be censured instead.
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She voted against impeaching Clinton and also wanted to censure him instead.
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Matt Gaetz suggested impeaching Obama during Wednesday&aposs Trump impeachment-inquiry hearing
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The greatest danger, however, is to the process of impeaching the president.
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In 1998, Lofgren predicted that the GOP would suffer for impeaching Clinton.
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Republicans did lose congressional seats in the 1998 elections, after impeaching Clinton.
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I think impeaching a president is a sad event for our country.
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Democrats rejected Cipollone's concerns about impeaching a president in an election year.
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Polls show the public largely split on the idea of impeaching Trump.
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Moderate Democrats finally took a major step toward impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Or, is there a double jeopardy rule against impeaching a person twice?
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Even climate policies are seen as less important than impeaching the president.
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She made the same case Tuesday on the question of impeaching Kavanaugh.
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Polling has shown voters are split on whether they support impeaching Trump.
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Logistically, impeaching a president or other top government official involves two steps.
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There is considerable precedent for impeaching and removing lower-level federal judges.
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According to a CNN poll, 76 percent of Democrats support impeaching Trump.
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The Baltimore city charter doesn't offer any mechanism for impeaching a mayor.
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As is the case with impeaching and removing a president, impeaching a Supreme Court justice requires the House to rustle up support from a majority of representatives to move the indictment along to their colleagues in the Senate.
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Read more:Familiarity with the Ukraine scandal is rising and so is support for impeaching TrumpA Fox News poll just found that more than half of American voters want Trump impeached and removed from officeJust 30% of Americans say they oppose impeaching President Trump, according to a new Insider pollSwing voters are on the fence about impeaching Trump, but are more inclined to favor it,
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The House, after impeaching President Donald Trump for Ukraine-related abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, still has committees investigating Mueller's findings, and has said it still is considering impeaching Trump for obstructing justice during the Russia investigation.
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Impeaching and removing Trump from office is quite popular with the Democratic base.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also declined to say if she supported impeaching Trump.
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More conservative groups have said she would be a vote toward impeaching Trump.
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"Don't tell me there's not enough to debate impeaching the president," Moulton said.
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Justin Amash (MI), a vocal supporter of impeaching President Trump, voted with Democrats.
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What he's saying: Go deeper: Where other 2020 Democrats stand on impeaching Trump
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, AUTHOR, "THE CASE AGAINST IMPEACHING TRUMP": I don&apost think so.
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It's not the first time Waters has discussed the notion of impeaching Trump.
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Other polls have also found that support for impeaching Trump is holding steady.
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Jim Jordan of Ohio, formally began the process of impeaching Mueller's boss, Rosenstein.
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"Impeaching is a divisive thing in our country — it's hard," Ms. Pelosi said.
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Even Democratic congressional leaders have shown no interest in impeaching Trump yet. Rep.
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Missouri lawmakers are considering impeaching him, with a vote expected early next month.
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CNN notes that support for impeaching Nixon reached 2628 percent in March 28503.
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Rashida Tlaib used an expletive Thursday in pushing for impeaching President Donald Trump.
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There's a strong case to be made for impeaching Trump on those grounds.
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Republicans paid for their overreach in impeaching President Bill Clinton in late 1998.
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Some Democrats have proposed impeaching Trump following his inauguration, citing obstruction of justice.
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He supported impeaching Clinton but has not publicly weighed in on Trump's impeachment.
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Nixon resigned in 1974, with the House of Representatives moving toward impeaching him.
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Democrats are already impeaching Trump—and they're already making a hash of it.
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While moderate Republicans (remember them?) reluctantly agreed to join Democrats in impeaching Mr.
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No. Did the president steal the midterms, or stop Congress from impeaching him?
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That would mean not impeaching a president because of "strong feelings," he said.
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Davis, who preaches bipartisanship, tried to tamp down talk about impeaching the President.
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John Kasich, a frequent Trump critic, said he'd back impeaching Trump on Friday.
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Polls show that voters are mixed about impeaching Trump, but that could change.
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Here's a longer look at the arguments for and against impeaching Trump. 7.
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Currently, the former financier is largely focusing his efforts on impeaching President Trump.
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Now 2628 percent of voters oppose impeaching Trump while 28503 percent support it.
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It was Trump's Ukraine phone call that amplified support for impeaching the President.
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The process is the same as impeaching the president of the United States.
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But impeaching Ms. Park could be a political risk for the opposition parties.
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Support for impeaching Trump has seen a slight uptick in the past week.
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But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has made it clear that she does not believe the House should go so far as impeaching a sitting Supreme Court justice, a similar line she's deployed when asked about impeaching President Donald Trump.
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If your goal is just to reprimand Trump for an abuse of power by impeaching him, then of course that goal will be served by, well, impeaching him, and whether it's done quickly or slowly doesn't matter all that much.
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Among Democratic primary voters, 66% are strongly for impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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From that standpoint, calling for impeaching the President may not be the smartest move.
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But Beto O&aposRourke came out this week in favor of impeaching Donald Trump.
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A corruption scandal, which is still unfolding, led to parliament impeaching Park last month.
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Asked about impeaching Trump, the campaign of Dean Phillips, a Democrat challenging Republican Rep.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't think impeaching President Donald Trump is a good idea.
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Steyer has called on Democrats running for office to pledge to support impeaching Trump.
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In September, 54% of adults disapproved of Mr Trump and 45% supported impeaching him.
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But the state is not on board with impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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When you are considering removing somebody from office or impeaching them in that way.
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Even after two dramatic events, the public was apprehensive about impeaching and removing Nixon.
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FOR obvious reasons, interest in the process of impeaching an American president is soaring.
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Chris Wallace on his interview with Putin, Pompeo&aposs contentious hearing and impeaching Rosenstein.
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Al Green gave an impassioned speech on the House Floor supporting impeaching the President.
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Eric Greitens, who resigned amid political and personal scandal as lawmakers considered impeaching him.
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Eric Greitens, as the state legislature is set to consider impeaching the embattled governor.
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Some legal experts saw the requests as an opening salvo toward impeaching the president.
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They may have succeeded in impeaching him, but failed to remove him from office.
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The House Judiciary Committee convenes Tuesday to consider impeaching the Internal Revenue Service commissioner.
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Polls show that Republicans oppose impeaching (bringing charges against) or removing Trump from office.
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Should Democrats win back the House, the push for impeaching Trump could be intense.
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The congressman supported impeaching Clinton, but has opposed starting an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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The former independent counsel added that there was not a consensus over impeaching Clinton.
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His findings could significantly bolster the case for impeaching Trump if they're made public.
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Progressives in Congress are also pushing their colleagues to move on impeaching Trump. Rep.
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Mitt Romney, who previously said he was keeping an "open mind" toward impeaching Trump.
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Support for impeaching Trump among Republicans has increased as details about Trump's call emerged.
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He favored impeaching Clinton and swung against the idea of impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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Investigating and impeaching Trump fell near the bottom of the list of Democratic priorities.
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More than half of House Democrats support impeaching or launching impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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The House Judiciary Committee will consider impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in upcoming hearings.
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A majority of Americans support impeaching President Donald Trump, a new Insider poll found.
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In October, CNN&aposs polling found 56% of women supported impeaching and removing Trump.
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Any talk of impeaching President Trump is premature and helps to mobilize his base.
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Impeaching him almost certainly does even more short-term harm to the party brand.
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In response, at least seven Democrats have directly said they support impeaching the president.
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A Portland State University professor called for impeaching the city's Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler.
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With the benefit of hindsight, impeaching President Clinton was a disaster for the Republicans.
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Impeaching Bill Clinton was wholly a political decision; the substance mattered little in 1998.
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Many advocate once radical ideas, such as impeaching Trump and broadening government-run healthcare.
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There was even discussion of the possibility of impeaching the president for those lies.
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz GUESS which state has the highest interest in impeaching President Trump.
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But by impeaching Donald Trump, it can become a beacon of moral truth again.
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A Fox News poll released last week found that 6900 percent support impeaching Trump.
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It indicated 2023 percent of voters support impeaching Trump and removing him from office.
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It would suggest they didn't have the courage of their convictions when impeaching Trump.
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Opponents talked about impeaching President Ulysses S. Grant amid corruption allegations against his administration.
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Emerson found that 220006 percent oppose impeaching Trump, against 2202 percent who support it.
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A recent Monmouth University poll showed that 6 in 10 people opposed impeaching Trump.
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But 88 percent of surveyed Republicans, according to the same poll, oppose impeaching Trump.
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We have to know the procedure of impeaching a president to understand that point.
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Karen Bass Says House Open to Impeaching Trump Again if He Wins 85033 pic.twitter.
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He says he was the first Republican lawmaker to publicly discuss impeaching President Trump.
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Mr. Berke laid out the case for impeaching Mr. Trump, as Democrats saw it.
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In 1998, Peterson voted against impeaching Clinton even after he voted for the inquiry.
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" Asked host Laura Ingraham if he was serious about impeaching Wray, Nunes replied: "Absolutely.
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Al Green became the first Democrat in Congress to support impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Independents are more divided: 46 percent support impeaching Trump, while 39 percent oppose it.
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Still, a poll last month found about half of voters favored impeaching the president.
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Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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I know I promised trade deals like USMCA, but we're busy impeaching a president.
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Republicans argued that Democrats were impeaching Trump because they can't beat him in 2020.
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Democratic primary voters are overwhelmingly in favor of impeaching and removing President Donald Trump.
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Democratic primary voters are overwhelmingly in favor of impeaching and removing President Donald Trump.
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For months, Democrats who support impeaching President Trump have struggled to make their case.
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But impeaching a president doesn't immediately result in their exit from the White House.
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And the idea of impeaching the President is all but dead at this point.
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First, they believe that the process of impeaching a president requires a completed probe.
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When the Comey news first broke, some Republicans even started musing about impeaching Trump.
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"Now they're thinking about impeaching a brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats," Trump told reporters, referring to the support among some Democrats for impeaching Kavanaugh.
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The Democratic-controlled state assembly might explore impeaching Christie, though that is no sure thing.
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In the CNN poll, 03% of voters were against impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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At one point earlier this year she even said that Trump was "not worth" impeaching.
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It&aposs called "The Case Against Impeaching Donald Trump", Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
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On Monday, a congressional committee in the lower house voted in favor of impeaching Rousseff.
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Madison was objecting only to impeaching a president for maladministration rather than abuse of power.
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Most of the increase in support for impeaching Mr Trump has come from his detractors.
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Meanwhile, the party's campaign arm has repeatedly argued that voters don't care about impeaching Trump.
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Overall, 51% say they oppose impeaching and removing Trump while 42% say they support it.
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The backdrop: Harris' comments on impeaching Trump came 3 days after 2020 presidential candidate Sen.
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Pelosi said earlier this week that impeaching Trump is "not worth it" without bipartisan support.
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She has said Trump is "almost not worth" impeaching but the constitution is worth defending.
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Whether to support impeaching Trump Biden will face an early litmus test on impeachment. Sen.
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He didn't back impeaching Clinton and supported the decision to start impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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"The president is self-impeaching," the AP reported her saying in a private caucus meeting.
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"We are not impeaching him because we don't like his tax policy," Steyer told me.
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It's not every day that you read the vice president's case for impeaching a president.
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Polling wise, 6900% of the electorate support impeaching Trump and about 2628% say they don't.
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Democrats have decried Kavanaugh's record on issues including immigration, abortion and impeaching a sitting president.
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Starr eventually outlined 11 possible grounds for impeaching Clinton, including perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Steyer built his political brand on funding a campaign to coax lawmakers into impeaching Trump.
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Impeaching Trump right now on the eve of the next presidential election is very inconvenient.
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Support for impeaching the president has been growing among Americans who were once against it.
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It is a reflection of the Democrats' divisions over the wisdom of impeaching Mr. Trump.
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Impeaching Trump would, he's right, basically require a Democratic majority and unanimity within the party.
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However, 2202 percent support impeaching and removing Trump, while 2628 percent oppose impeachment and removal.
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While we're working on impeaching her boss, let's make sure we don't line her pockets.
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Almost all of them voted to "defy the votes of [their] constituents" by impeaching him.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "More than 180 House Democrats are now in favor of impeaching President Trump.
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Reid relates what happened when Congress considered impeaching John Koskinen, the I.R.S. commissioner, in 2016.
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He&aposs opposed to impeaching Trump, contending it would be too divisive for the country.
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On Fox News on Sunday, Schiff is set to discuss the case for impeaching Trump.
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And the wait is worth it, they say, given the gravity of impeaching the President.
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Actually impeaching the president remains a long way off and is by no means certain.
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Steyer has been running a multimillion-dollar ad campaign encouraging Democrats to support impeaching Trump.
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But impeaching Trump will require Republican support, and Republicans don't appear to be inching anywhere.
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Americans overall have grown less supportive of impeaching Trump, Reuters/Ipsos polling this week showed.
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In a recent Monmouth University poll, 6 in 10 people said they opposed impeaching Trump.
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The tide is shifting on impeaching the president within the House Democratic caucus — and fast.
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Impeaching Trump has been met with apprehension among voters, including those who detest the president.
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Democrats are moving toward impeaching Trump for what they call an abuse of his power.
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And Democrats also signaled they're increasingly unafraid of a potential political backlash over impeaching Trump.
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I also argued that Democrats would be doing him a favor by impeaching him soon.
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Go deeper: Poll shows net 20-point swing in favor of impeaching and removing Trump
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If there have been abuses, it is incumbent on those impeaching to state them explicitly.
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He said the speaker is "doing a tremendous disservice to the country" for impeaching him.
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Dozens of Democrats in Congress — and one Republican — have come out in favor of impeaching Trump.
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Almost two-in-five said it wasn't important that the nominee support impeaching the sitting President.
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Less than 22% of Republicans were for impeaching and removing Nixon until the summer of 21974.
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Democrats have to be concerned that impeaching Trump on weak charges has improved his reelection prospects.
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Support for impeaching Trump is also heavily split on partisan lines, especially as compared to Nixon.
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When it comes to impeaching and removing Trump from office, the difference is even more dramatic.
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Impeaching a president in the House requires only a simple majority of 218, which Democrats have.
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We know he drafted parts of the Starr report outlining a case for impeaching Mr Clinton.
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If that starts to interest marginal voters in impeaching him, expect Mrs Pelosi to do so.
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This falls far short of the two-thirds majority needed to begin impeaching Mr Sirisena, however.
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There would still be talk in Congress about impeaching him, but it would be from Republicans.
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Steyer's political positions include a universal health-care system, fighting climate change and impeaching the president.
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Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said recently that Democrats "ought to look at" impeaching President Trump.Rep.
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A poll by Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling found 48 percent of Americans favor impeaching Trump.
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I am sending a copy of "The Case Against Impeaching Trump" to every member of Congress.
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Democrats are already talking about impeaching or jailing Trump for arranging the payments (The Associated Press).
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All of this remains academic since Democratic leaders have not expressed any interest in impeaching Trump.
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The House Judiciary Committee is considering impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in hearings that start Tuesday.
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Opposition parties have demanded a thorough investigation, but have not raised the possibility of impeaching her.
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Chris Smith voted to impeach Clinton but has not expressed a public view on impeaching Trump.
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He voted for an impeachment inquiry against Clinton but has not weighed in on impeaching Trump.
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Carolyn Maloney opposed impeaching Clinton but is strongly in favor of starting impeachment proceedings against Trump
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On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold its second hearing to consider potentially impeaching Koskinen.
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Just three weeks earlier, Datafolha had found that 68 percent of Brazilians favored impeaching the president.
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More than half of House Democrats now support impeaching or launching an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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Impeaching Trump could solve some problems congressional Republicans face, but it could make other ones worse.
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But if Newt Gingrich taught us anything, impeaching the president is likely to be bad politics.
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Investigations are still underway, but 58 House Democrats have already voted to consider impeaching Mr. Trump.
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Washington (CNN)Democrats reached an undeniably important milestone on their path toward impeaching President Donald Trump.
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But as nearly every Democrat has reiterated, not impeaching Trump would've likely done the same thing.
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For months, Republicans gloated as Democrats agonized and squabbled over the question of impeaching President Trump.
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And now Democrats are moving towards impeaching Trump, which should feel like a huge, historic moment.
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But Republicans have argued the House should have gathered all necessary testimony before impeaching the president.
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And before the 2016 election, Republicans were already working on a strategy for impeaching Hillary Clinton.
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With Democrats now united on impeaching Trump, the conditioning of the American public is well underway.
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Coons called it "premature" to discuss impeaching Kavanaugh, and urged the Senate to "heal" its divisions.
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President Trump Are the Democrats inching closer to impeaching President Trump after the whistleblower complaint controversy?
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House Democratic leadership, meanwhile, has maintained that impeaching Trump is not political, but a congressional responsibility.
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The goal is to voice outrage at President Trump's behavior and show support for impeaching him.
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Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, however, said that nothing Volker said bolstered the case for impeaching Trump.
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Just a quarter to a third of Americans favored impeaching Clinton and removing him from office.
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But impeaching amid the scandal, he argued in the Monday op-ed, "might actually benefit" Trump.
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Democratic lawyers will present the case for impeaching President Trump today before the House Judiciary committee.
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In 2016, some top congressional Republicans discussed impeaching Hillary Clinton before the election was even held.
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Three days of televised House committee hearings that brought Democrats closer to impeaching President Donald Trump.
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" And he approvingly quoted a supporter who warned that impeaching Trump could lead to "civil war.
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Jared Golden of Maine supported impeaching Trump on abuse of power, but not for obstructing Congress.
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This hearing was meant to lay out the final cases for and against impeaching the president.
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Jamie Raskin was among a chorus of Democrats who touted the urgency of impeaching President Trump.
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Three witnesses in Wednesday&aposs impeachment hearing made a forceful case for impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Some Democrats also argue that the moral case for impeaching Trump transcends any political calculation. Rep.
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The lawmakers also huddled with Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor who supports impeaching the president.
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Trump said Democrats were trying to "nullify" the results of the 2016 election by impeaching him.
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President Donald Trump supported impeaching his two immediate predecessors: Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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House Democrats are poised to cast historic votes this month impeaching Trump, triggering a Senate trial.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said during a news conference Thursday he does not back impeaching Rosenstein.
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Maxine Waters of California, who have made impeaching him a central part of their political identity.
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And she feared that impeaching Trump on partisan lines was a risk to the Democratic majority.
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Mr. Garcetti is one Democrat who does not support impeaching the president, at least for now.
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Kathryn Whitaker, a Democratic candidate for the State Senate in South Carolina, supports impeaching Mr. Trump.
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I looked at all the polls I could that specifically asked about impeaching and removing Trump.
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In each month, a bare plurality were in favor of impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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But rank-and-file Democrats are not being propelled by their constituents into impeaching the president.
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Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE as Senate majority leader?
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Tomorrow morning might be interesting: I'm told Tom Steyer's ad on impeaching Trump is going to play on Fox + Friends for the first time... Steyer also launched a digital ad buy on Thursday night, pressing House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to support impeaching Trump.
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Opposition parties have demanded a thorough investigation but have not raised the possibility of impeaching the president.
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Their thinking is that by impeaching Trump, Democrats turn him into a victim -- a role he relishes.
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Naturally, the possibility of impeaching Trump and kicking him out of office sent #TheResistance into a frenzy.
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They want to win it so they can start impeaching the president, undoing the election of 2016.
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A plurality of voters, 47.6 percent, support impeaching and removing Trump, against 43.4 percent who oppose it.
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In a recent post, I laid out the costs and benefits Republicans would face in impeaching Trump.
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Put another way, impeaching and removing Trump from office in these states is not a popular position.
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Majority Leader Micky Hammon is attempting to put together a special commission to look into impeaching Bentley.
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Go deeper: House Democratic leaders caution against immediate impeachment hearings Where 2020 Democrats stand on impeaching Trump
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Last year, the commission started investigating the current president's family for alleged corruption and supported impeaching him.
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Democratic presidential candidates are torn over the politics and consequences associated with impeaching President Donald Trump. Sens.
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Read more: Democrats have an intra-party battle brewing over impeaching Trump after the Mueller report's release
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The backdrop: Talk of impeaching the president has ramped up following the release of the Mueller report.
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Why it matters: Amash is the first Republican congressman to speak out in favor of impeaching Trump.
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The big picture: Amash is the first Republican congressman to speak out in favor of impeaching Trump.
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However, Waters has also led the charge for impeaching Trump and has made incendiary comments, he added.
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There is a complicated political cost-benefit analysis to whether Republicans gain or lose from impeaching Trump.
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The House voted this week on procedures for the inquiry, a major step toward formally impeaching Trump.
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Impeaching judges for misconduct isn't unheard of at the state level or in the lower federal courts.
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Talk of impeaching the president moved to the center of the midterm debate following Cohen's guilty plea.
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"Impeaching the president of the United States is upsetting the status quo," he said in the podcast.
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" "Even when we're talking about impeaching Donald Trump, we're talking about Donald Trump and we are losing.
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And he favored impeaching Trump in late September, saying, "I think that the line has been crossed."
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Only 30% of Americans say they oppose impeaching President Donald Trump, according to Insider's most recent poll.
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Fourteen percent of GOP respondents favored impeaching Trump in November, while 2628 percent favored it more recently.
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Giuliani added that Democrats have "backed off" a midterm campaign push that emphasizes possibly impeaching the president.
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Political strategists have paid a lot of attention to the consequences of impeaching him in the House.
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During that time, he helped draft a report that laid out the evidence for potentially impeaching Clinton.
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Impeaching a president over asking for investigations into alleged corruption would expose future presidents to similar scrutiny.
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And that would still be the case even if Democrats weren't on the verge of impeaching him.
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He has watched Bill Clinton get impeached—and had a hand in not impeaching George W. Bush.
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She did not vote in favor of impeaching Clinton and doesn't yet support impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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Democrats have shown an interest in impeaching the president if they take back Congress in the midterms.
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It's certainly a debate Democrats are having in real time as they move toward impeaching the President.
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On Wednesday, she was more coy about the matter of impeaching Trump, but her stance was clear.
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Gillum notably supports impeaching President Donald Trump, who traveled to Florida on Wednesday to campaign for DeSantis.
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She says she is uncomfortable, for instance, with loose talk from some Democrats about impeaching President Trump.
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Impeaching a president for refusing to participate in an impeachment inquiry is a kind of meta-impeachment.
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Are you sympathetic to any of the arguments you have heard or read against impeaching Mr. Trump?
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The same voters oppose impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office, 53 percent to 43 percent.
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"It's an example that we can still do our job while we're impeaching the president," Alexander added.
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" In response, Gaetz said: "He knows it's House Democrats, not Iran, who are impeaching the president, right?
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A committee held hearings on impeaching President James Buchanan, widely considered the worst American commander in chief.
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Pete King, a New York Republican, broke from his party and voted against impeaching President Bill Clinton.
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The big picture: These voters hate the fact that House Democrats are moving toward impeaching the president.
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But if in impeaching Trump, Democrats help reelect him, four years may be more consequential than forever.
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She has also been very outspoken on another issue supported by approximately 70% of Democrats: Impeaching Trump.
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It has also reportedly brought House Democrats near a "tipping point" on possibly impeaching the President. 2.
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That means that a significant bloc of voters who otherwise disapprove of Trump nonetheless oppose impeaching him.
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"I can't believe we're talking about impeaching the president based on an accusation based on hearsay," Sen.
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The American people deserve to have a clear, easily understood reason for impeaching a legally elected president.
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Voters are slightly opposed to impeaching Trump, with 22019 percent in opposition and 43 percent in support.
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That's a shift from public sentiment about the House majority's motivations in impeaching former President Bill Clinton.
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Additionally, it could be because opposition to impeaching and removing Trump is higher than Trump's popularity ratings.
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In truth, they have only just begun to warm to the idea of impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Bob Barr on Capitol Hill after the House of Representatives voted to proceed with impeaching Clinton, Oct.
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WASHINGTON — Two Democrats broke with their party and voted against impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday night. Reps.
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"People forget that the Republicans in 1998 lost the House after impeaching Bill Clinton," he told CNBC.
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There was not a critical mass for impeaching Trump last spring after the Mueller report was released.
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When he spoke at a Tea Party gathering in his district in 2011, he advocated impeaching Obama.
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Slightly less than half of Americans supported impeaching Trump, the first step in removing him from office.
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Independents are divided: 9913 percent would support the House's impeaching Trump, and 42 percent would oppose that.
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Democrats insist that their march toward impeaching President Donald Trump is simply about doing the right thing.
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Most Democrats, 87 percent, support impeaching Trump, while a nearly equal 85 percent of Republicans oppose it.
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During last year's Senate race, he embraced "Medicare for all" and said he would support impeaching Trump.
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Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, who have proposed impeaching Rosenstein — and expressed their anger over the setup.
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In more extreme cases, they can pursue impeaching the president, or even try to amend the Constitution.
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Frank Harder, a 71-year retired purchasing agent and registered Democrat, has supported impeaching Trump for months.
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Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), a close ally of the speaker, said on Pelosi's approach to impeaching Trump.
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After months of investigation, the House is moving forward with a vote on impeaching Trump this week.
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This isn't the first time that Fox News has asked about impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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But Democrats have argued that impeaching him is a moral necessity, even if he remains in office.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) and Sen.
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" More hot quotes from Comey in the ABC interview, some first obtained by the NYT: On impeaching Trump: "I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly.
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Democrats are hoping the impeachment hearings that happened before Thanksgiving, some of them featuring blockbuster testimony, will help push public opinion toward impeaching Trump and removing him from office -- as similar hearings did in the summer of 453 when House Democrats moved toward impeaching then-President Richard Nixon.
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Impeaching Trump over Robert Mueller's findings in the Russia investigation would have been an attempt to address past offenses; impeaching Trump over these calls would be an attempt to halt what sure looks like an ongoing attempt to hijack American foreign policy in service of the president's reelection.
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She urged Democratic candidates to talk about health care and avoid divisive talk of impeaching President Donald Trump.
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And while true independents are against the President, they are against impeaching and removing him from office, too.
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Impeaching and removing a justice then requires a two-thirds supermajority of senators to vote yes on it.
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There is a precedent for impeaching a Supreme Court justice, but it dates back to the early 1800s.
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He hadn&apost been on the case three days before he&aposs already talking about impeaching the president.
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In recent days, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reiterated that she thinks impeaching Trump is a futile business.
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One problem with impeachment is that as unpopular as Trump is, impeaching him is about equally as unpopular.
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Nearly one-third of moderate/liberal Republicans were in favor of impeaching and removing Trump in late September.
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" Businessman Andrew Yang "I support impeachment, but we shouldn't have any illusions that impeaching Donald Trump will 1.
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Go deeper: Here's the spreadsheet showing my reporting on where every new House Democrat stands on impeaching Trump.
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The polls indicate that impeaching and removing Trump in these pivotal states is far from a slam dunk.
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Trump Back in October 265, the vast majority of Americans were against impeaching and removing Clinton from office.
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"God have pity on this nation," Cunha said as he cast his vote in favor of impeaching Rousseff.
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Go deeper: Here's the spreadsheet showing my reporting on where every new House Democrat stands on impeaching Trump.
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Asked whether he supported impeaching Trump, Yang said he did but that the problems did not end there.
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" House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said that impeaching Koskinen is "the least we can do.
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Shots across the bow about impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggest that we could soon find out.
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But the same voters opposed impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office, 53 percent to 43 percent.
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These moving boxes will come in handy next November when they're booted from office for impeaching the president.
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He said he supported impeaching Ms. Rousseff, but acknowledged that a new government might not be any better.
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President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is defying a subpoena from House lawmakers investigating impeaching the president.
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Sherrod Brown was first elected in 1993 as a member of the House, and voted against impeaching Clinton.
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Two weeks later, 82% of Democratic voters polled said they support impeaching Trump — a nine percentage point increase.
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Even if they really are serious about not impeaching, they need to get better at turning the screws.
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Schiff's comments come as House Democrats debate the merits of impeaching Trump in the aftermath of Mueller's report.
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Nunes said that the morning impeachment hearing featuring Vindman and Williams yielded no evidence to support impeaching Trump.
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This does not mean that Democrats are running on impeaching Trump; they aren't, they shouldn't, and they won't.
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In the meantime, Republicans have been considering impeaching the Supreme Court justices who struck down the gerrymandered map.
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Hoffer and Hull demonstrate that our nation developed a homegrown, all-American framework for impeaching high-level officials.
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But now that Congress has the results, the possibility of impeaching the president depends on who you ask.
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When those expeditions came to nothing, the House Judiciary Committee originally voted in 1867 against impeaching the president.
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Democrats must be very rigorous, as we were, by the way, in the process for impeaching Richard Nixon.
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How can Montana, Alaska and Idaho be among the leaders in showing interest about impeaching a Republican president?
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But while national polls show support for impeaching him is growing, it's still divided sharply along partisan lines.
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"), suggested former President Obama should be impeached for his comments about health care ("Why aren't we impeaching him?
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Polls asking whether voters support impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office show far more mixed results.
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A Gallup poll released Wednesday showed that 52 percent of Americans endorse impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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Impeaching a president used to be unthinkable, but now two presidents have been impeached just 21 years apart.
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If impeaching Mr. Trump had been so urgent, why was it suddenly O.K. to delay the process indefinitely?
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Forty-five percent of Americans said in the CNN poll that they support impeaching and removing the president.
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For several months, prominent advocates for impeaching Trump have made that case—and recent polls are bolstering it.
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Democrats: Impeaching the president carries political risks for Democrats, dozens of whom represent districts where he remains popular.
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If Democrats thought impeaching a president was difficult, just wait until they have to clean up their mess.
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Every candidate running for the Democratic nomination -- aside from Gabbard -- has long been in favor of impeaching Trump.
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Mr. Trump contends that impeaching him would infringe on the ability of future presidents to conduct foreign policy.
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But private negotiations over a transition abound in San Juan, and some politicians have spoken of impeaching him.
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But private negotiations over a transition abound in San Juan, and some politicians have spoken of impeaching him.
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Tonight, the premiere of 'This is Us,' followed by Nancy Pelosi's new show, 'This Is Us Impeaching You.
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A CNBC All-America Economic Survey released on Monday found that 88 percent of Republicans oppose impeaching Trump.
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Matthew Yglesias, a liberal columnist, wrote "The case for impeaching Trump — and fast" on May 22 on Vox.
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Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), blaming House Democrats for impeaching Trump before waiting to develop additional strains of evidence.
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Opinion Columnist Impeaching a president is the most consequential thing our Congress can do — other than declaring war.
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And as Democrats move toward impeaching Trump, there appears to be little or no accountability for Pompeo coming.
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By comparison, public opinion remained remarkably stable through 1998 during the House GOP's long march toward impeaching Clinton.
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Support for impeaching and removing him from office reaches 43% among the men and 46% among the women.
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Van Drew said that he felt he did the "honorable thing" in voting against impeaching Trump last week.
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A vote as serious as impeaching the president of the United States deserves thoughtful, reflective and deliberate attention.
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Similarly, 44 percent of voters oppose the inquiry, and 43 percent would oppose the House's impeaching the president.
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Darren Samuelsohn: I don't buy into impeachment being a weight on the impeaching party in the next election.
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Overall, 213% of voters said they support the House impeaching Trump, while 214% said they oppose the move.
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A new Fox News poll released Sunday found that 50 percent of Americans supported impeaching and removing Trump.
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Green plans to force a vote on a "privileged" resolution that lays out his case for impeaching Trump.
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I'm for impeaching the Chief Justice for lying to all of us about his support of the Constitution.
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That means they'd like to take a final vote on impeaching Trump in a little over two weeks.
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Estimates on how many Americans support impeachment vary, but polls indicate a majority do not support impeaching Trump.
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She then aggressively rejected the notion — fueled by Republicans — that Democrats are impeaching Trump because of personal animosity.
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Pelosi and Democrats have bet their majority on impeaching the president less than a year from his reelection.
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Polls show support for impeaching Trump has grown, especially among Democrats and independents, easing fears among party strategists.
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In Slate, the political scientist Yascha Mounk joins the impeachment debate and makes a case against impeaching Trump.
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Gabbard, who previously cautioned against impeaching Trump, called it "unfortunate, but necessary" that she now support the inquiry.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) slammed Pelosi on Sept.
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Plus, a lot of Democrats, notably Pelosi, can remember when impeaching Clinton backfired on Republicans in the late 1990s.
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And Alan Dershowitz, law profession emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author of "The Case Against Impeaching Trump".
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Only a third of voters want Congress to begin the process of impeaching Trump, including two-thirds of Democrats.
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Fewer thought it was very important that their nominee support the Green New Deal (34%) and impeaching Trump (29%).
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"We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason," she said.
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In a CNN poll, for example, just 6 percent of Republicans said they favored impeaching and removing Mr. Trump.
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On October 23rd, 41 % of Americans approved of Mr Trump's job performance and the same share opposed impeaching him.
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Certain variables — special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, the possibility of a Democratic House impeaching Trump — could quickly change things.
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An average of polls taken since early last week shows that 20143% support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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The same thing could happen once the Democrats fall they&aposre going to start impeaching the integrity of Mueller.
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Advocates for impeaching Trump have hoped that Mueller's appearance would help push more Democrats to endorse opening impeachment proceedings.
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Undercutting America's political system and thereby impeaching its ability to judge others would further that goal in Russian eyes.
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The first question he faced in Waco was about impeaching Mr Trump, drawing cheers from the overwhelmingly Democratic crowd.
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It&aposs either going to be the president demands these documents or Congress has the option of impeaching him.
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Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) also said Tuesday the new reports have helped "cement" the process of impeaching the president.
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The opposition is bent on impeaching Ms Rousseff, a misguided battle that could dominate the political agenda for months.
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Temer was officially sworn in in September 2016, after the Senate voted 61-20 in favor of impeaching Rousseff.
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"We are actively impeaching Donald Trump and his administration every day in terms of exposing the lies," he said.
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" Dershowitz writes that impeaching Trump would be possible, though, "if he did it because he was paid or extorted.
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IF THE CASE for impeaching President Donald Trump needed any further nailing down, it received it on October 29th.
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What does the Constitution mean when it speaks of impeaching a president who has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"?
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The much-watched hearing led some Democrats to say the case for impeaching the president is now more robust.
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Krauthammer warned that impeaching Trump would cause millions that voted for him to question the stability of American democracy.
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It sparked outrage across the aisles in Congress and turned the American people in favor of impeaching the president.
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Overall support for impeaching Trump is at a level similar to the public's view of President Nixon in 6900.
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold its second hearing on impeaching Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
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The unexpected Multiple Democrats who serve as the ranking member on House committees showed their support for impeaching Trump.
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Now that my book, "The Case Against Impeaching Trump," has been published, the efforts to silence me have increased.
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"We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason and we shouldn't avoid it for a political reason," she said.
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"We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason," Pelosi said.
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Democratic leaders, including fierce Trump critic Adam Schiff, have urged other Democrats not to push for impeaching the President.
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Buttigieg's comments come as a growing number of Democrats in the House have backed the prospect of impeaching Trump.
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A member of the Congressional Black Caucus, he was targeted in 2017 after floating the idea of impeaching Trump.
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"After 9/11, the greatest threat to our democracy lived in a cave," says Helmer, who supports impeaching Trump.
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The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday urged the House to vote on impeaching Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that impeaching President Donald Trump is about something bigger than just Trump himself.
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He rejected the Republican-led efforts to impeach Clinton, but Dogget has come out in support of impeaching Trump.
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Soon, the House of Representatives will vote on a motion impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, a dedicated public servant.
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Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and Elizabeth Warren — have also voiced their support of impeaching Trump.
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Support for impeaching the president from a moderate Republican like Romney may encourage like-minded colleagues to follow suit.
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While not mentioned in the ad, Fleming has made impeaching the IRS commissioner a main piece of his campaign.
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The letter comes as members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus push for a September vote on impeaching Koskinen.
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Democrats talked about impeaching Ronald Reagan over the Iran-contra affair and George W. Bush over the Iraq war.
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Within hours of Robert S. Mueller III's statement on Wednesday, 10 Democratic presidential candidates had endorsed impeaching President Trump.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors" are, you will recall, the constitutional standard for impeaching the president of the United States.
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Successfully impeaching a president begins with an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee, which draws up articles of impeachment.
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Many House Democrats are wary of impeaching Mr. Trump because they know the enterprise would very likely be doomed.
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In rare public remarks, Mr. Rosenstein issued a strong rebuke to such efforts, which included talk of impeaching him.
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There is further evidence that interest in impeaching the president may not be as high as some liberals suspect.
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It is also lower than the search volume for impeaching Barack Obama in October 2013 during the government shutdown.
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However, a majority of voters — 52 percent — say they oppose impeaching Trump even if he fires the special counsel.
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Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday the upcoming midterm elections will be a referendum on impeaching the president.
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But the sudden turn punctuated the sharp partisan split in the Congress, and the nation, over impeaching the president.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul MORE (D-Calif.) will be asked this week if she supports impeaching Kavanaugh.
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Prior to the vote, POLITICO/Morning Consult polls showed slightly greater support for impeaching Trump than other public surveys.
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"I have a little trouble impeaching [Trump] over what I've heard I so far," Rooney said in an interview.
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College-educated whites — who disdain Trump but so far feel less strongly about impeaching him — represent a special vulnerability.
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In poll after poll conducted over the last few weeks and months, a clear majority oppose Congress impeaching Trump.
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Joe Cunningham is one of just a few remaining House Democrats who have not publicly supported impeaching the president.
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But he also expanded far beyond the current circumstances to make a sweeping argument against impeaching presidents in general.
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Moreover, while the number who favor impeaching and removing Trump jumped in recent weeks, his approval rating barely wiggled.
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Democrats in the House outlined a case for impeaching President Trump, and released new phone records from Rudy Giuliani.
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Some will argue that the opposition to impeaching President Trump is more bipartisan than the effort to oust him.
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The animus Mr. Trump generated among his critics led to talk of impeaching him even before he took office.
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According to a FiveThirtyEight average of impeachment polling, 22020 percent of Americans support impeaching Trump and 22016 percent oppose.
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Think about how you would reason, if the pressure for impeaching Trump mounted further in the weeks to come.
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Steyer announced in January that he wouldn't run for president and instead was throwing his efforts behind impeaching Trump.
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They also repeatedly brought up Hillary Clinton, arguing that Democrats were only impeaching Trump because Clinton lost the election.
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They literally last night had votes on impeaching the president of the United States behind closed doors in secret.
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A near unanimous 98% of those who strongly favor impeaching and removing Trump disapprove of his overall job performance.
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And early signs are that most of these vulnerable House Democrats are comfortable impeaching Trump over the Ukraine scandal.
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Democrats secured key sound bites that many believe will tick up support for impeaching Trump in the coming weeks.
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For weeks, Biden spoke cautiously about impeaching the president, even as every other major Democratic candidate called for it.
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The morning move toward impeaching the President set the stage for a historic vote by the House next week.
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Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the Judiciary and Rules panels, presented the Democrats' case for impeaching the President.
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It said that 50% of Americans, you know, supported impeaching the president and 43% opposed, and there've been this series of really kind of shocking revelations that we can't take our eyes off over the last month, and you look up and the poll says 50% support impeaching the president and 43% oppose.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-Mich.) profanity about impeaching President Trump received five times more coverage on cable news than Rep.
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A Public Policy Polling survey conducted before the latest revelation found that 48 percent of respondents support impeaching the president.
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And now there is talk about actually impeaching Rod Rosenstein, and there is talk about holding these people in contempt.
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Fewer prioritized impeaching President Donald Trump (41% very important), free higher education (5543%) or breaking up big tech companies (26%).
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Campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany then cited poll numbers that she said suggested support for impeaching hasn't changed since summer 2018.
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Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake said if the vote were private, at least 35 Republican senators would support impeaching you.
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By early August 103, about 210% of Republicans were for impeaching and removing Nixon in both Gallup and Harris polling.
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"Impeaching the President will be the hardest thing I'll ever do because I love the law," Graham said in 1998.
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Earlier this month, Missouri lawmakers gathered enough signatures to call a special session in which they would consider impeaching Greitens.
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Support for impeaching Trump surged a few weeks ago, after the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, announced the inquiry.
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Support for impeaching Trump and removing him from office reached an all-time high in a CNN poll released Tuesday.
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A Harris poll taken a few weeks later put support impeaching and removing Nixon at 43% and opposition at 41%.
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The big swing among House moderates was in favor of launching an "impeachment inquiry" not of impeaching Trump per se.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ has had a pair of alternative covers mocked up for his new book, "The Case Against Impeaching Trump".
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This is another reason why impeaching Mr Trump might be even more divisive than the impeachment of Mr Clinton was.
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Most Democrats in the House of Representatives joined every Republican to prevent a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday.
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Caution on impeaching Trump Sanders rang notes of caution on Democrats pursuing Trump's impeachment, just an hour after Massachusetts Sen.
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The bulk of most of the stories were devoted to Elizabeth Warren, who endorsed impeaching the President on Friday night.
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Some Democrats, angry about Trump's stonewalling, have called for impeaching top administration officials who refuse to comply with congressional investigations.
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The form of the resolution is as follows: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high misdemeanors.
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There's talk of court-packing, of impeaching judges, of cutting California into pieces to increase Democratic representation in the Senate.
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Jamie Raskin: Raskin was talking about impeaching Trump for violating the Constitution's Emoluments Clause even before the President was inaugurated.
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Talk of impeaching Donald Trump began only a couple of months after he declared his candidacy for president in 2015.
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They are right that impeaching Ms Rousseff would be a constitutional act with a legal basis, albeit a flimsy one.
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That is consistent with the stance of others in Democratic leadership, who have downplayed the possibility of impeaching the president.
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It's a sunny Wednesday evening here in Washington, where some Democrats are stepping up their talk of impeaching President Trump.
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If that were the case, an opposing party could shut down any political activity by the president by impeaching him.
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Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, has said she will focus on Democrats' legislative agenda, not on impeaching the President.
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The move to impeach was not supported by Democratic leaders, who have pushed aside the idea of impeaching the President.
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A Quinnipiac University poll published September 25 found that just 37% of Americans supported impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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A Quinnipiac University poll published September 25 found that just 37% of Americans supported impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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So why would they push their luck by impeaching the president, risking a backlash that could propel Trump to reelection?
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And we're in the process of impeaching President Trump and his administration every day in terms of exposing the deceptions.
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In a March 2900-220006 USA Today-Suffolk University poll, 2202 percent of registered voters said they supported impeaching Trump.
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One opposition leader said on that parliament should consider impeaching Johnson in order to ensure he complies with the law.
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It is the relevant precedent for impeaching Trump, and it negates the following arguments against starting an impeachment inquiry now.
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He has, however, expressed reservations about setting a precedent for impeaching a cabinet or sub-cabinet official, according to Bloomberg.
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There are growing calls among Democrats in Congress for Trump's impeachment: 169 out of 235 House Democrats support impeaching Trump.
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Some of that information could support an impeachment inquiry, yet lawmakers now seem more inclined to focus on impeaching Barr.
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Here, a woman stacks boxes filled with letters and petitions urging Congress to stop impeaching Clinton and censure him instead.
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Most of the public is on their side: According to a recent poll, 203 percent of Brazilians support impeaching Rousseff.
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And as for that enviable email list of more than 8 million supporters who signed on to support impeaching Trump?
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For months, public support for impeaching the president has been roughly equal to what it was before Richard Nixon resigned.
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But rank-and-file Democrats are not being propelled by their constituents into a headlong confrontation over impeaching the president.
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Maxine Waters (D-CA), who became the first member of Congress to begin talking of impeaching Trump in early February.
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Ms. Pelosi tried to convince her colleagues that they have tools to hold Mr. Trump to account without impeaching him.
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Asked if the threat of impeaching Mr. Trump might motivate her to vote for the Republican, she paused and considered.
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Billionaire Tom Steyer, an early proponent of impeaching President Donald Trump, has dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary race.
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"Trump, Biden and Ukraine: Sorting Out the Accusations" The debate: When is impeaching the president the right thing to do?
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From my experience as press secretary to President Bill Clinton, I believed impeaching Mr. Trump could backfire politically for Democrats.
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Opinion Columnist Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party suffered a big political penalty for impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998.
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If they could have gotten away with impeaching him because his neckties were too long, they would have tried. Sen.
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The somewhere unhappy with Washington, impeaching him was ridiculous Another founder warned of a great danger in the impeachment process.
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President Trump&aposs impeachment is a sign of a new political era in which impeaching a president will become common.
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Republicans in the Senate want to argue that the House should have figured all of this out before impeaching Trump.
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But that's about the percentage who supported impeaching Nixon in 21998 when he resigned as the House moved against him.
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Steyer will not, however, require House candidates whom he supports to pass a "litmus test" supporting impeaching Trump, he said.
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Already, the speaker of the Virginia state House -- a Republican -- has made clear that impeaching Northam is very, very unlikely.
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Doug Collins, argued that Democrats are impeaching the president because they think they can't beat him in the 2020 election.
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The poll found that a majority of likely 2020 voters surveyed do not support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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Lee had remained undecided until Friday and is the latest Democrat from a swing district to back impeaching the president.
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The move was yet another indication that House Democrats intend to continue, without delay, their march toward impeaching the president.
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Fifty-two percent of respondents in the contested districts believe that impeaching Trump is the top priority for congressional Democrats.
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"We have great confidence in terms of impeaching the president and his removal," Pelosi said in announcing her prosecutorial team.
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Critics have often pointed to misstatements, errors of fact and composite characterizations in the book without impeaching its central narrative.
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Okay, impeaching Trump is hardly what Vegas would call a stone-cold lock, but according to oddsmakers at US-Bookies.
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The Politico-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday recorded the highest level of support for impeaching Trump since he took office.
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Three-quarters of white evangelicals approve of his job performance, and 80 percent of them remain opposed to impeaching him.
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Lindsey Graham, are arguing that that only a crime can be grounds for impeaching presidents and removing them from office.
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After House Democrats present the case for impeaching Trump starting Wednesday, Trump's legal team will get their turn starting Saturday.
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Biden showed off the new approach on Wednesday when for the first time he said he'd back impeaching the president.
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Here are some of the ways that the scholars used those terms to argue for and against impeaching Mr. Trump.
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The considerations include outcomes like electing a woman or a gay man to the White House, or impeaching President Trump.
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More than two-thirds of the Senate and lower house backed impeaching Rousseff, whose popularity plummeted amid the economic crisis.
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The Fox News poll released this morning found 49% in favor of impeaching and removing the President, 45% were opposed.
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Nearly half of voters, 28500 percent, are opposed to impeaching Trump, and 6900 percent remain unsure, according to the poll.
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On Saturday, speaking to a crowd of conservative students, Trump falsely accused Pelosi of violating the Constitution by impeaching him.
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Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey were the only Democrats who opposed impeaching the president.
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They claimed that Democrats so despised Trump that they had been bent on impeaching him since he won in 2016.
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Not surprisingly, moderate Democrats in the electorate were far less likely to back impeaching and removing the president in May.
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Matt Gaetz suggested impeaching former President Barack Obama after yelling at Karlan and refusing to let her answer his questions.
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" ATR president Grover Norquist said that even if it doesn't make sense to oust Koskinen now, "the man deserves impeaching.
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And in 1998, some Democrats fruitlessly suggested censuring former President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal instead of impeaching him.
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Since the Democrats took control of the House, I've been deeply conflicted about the debate over impeaching President Donald Trump.
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They also sharply rebutted the notion that impeaching a president who has committed impeachable conduct amounts to reversing an election.
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The realistic window for Congress to consider impeaching him is closing, with the 2020 election less than a year away.
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Republican witness, legal expert and The Hill contributor Jonathan Turley cautioned the House against moving forward with impeaching the president.
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"We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason," Ms. Pelosi said.
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No Republicans support impeaching Mr. Trump (though Justin Amash, who left the party this year and became an independent, does).
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What all that data shows is there is a historically large amount of support for impeaching and removing the President.
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A CNN poll released Monday found that 45% of Americans support impeaching and removing Trump, down from 50% last month.
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Since Democrats started their impeachment inquiry back in late September, Fox has inquired about impeaching and removing Trump three times.
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Most of the public is on their side: According to a recent poll, 61 percent of Brazilians support impeaching Rousseff.
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The conventional wisdom is that even if Trump committed federal crimes, only Congress can address that wrongdoing by impeaching him.
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An ABC News/Ipsos poll found that Mueller's testimony did little to change voters' minds on the issue of impeaching Trump.
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Hardline conservatives have backed down from a threat to imminently force a House vote on impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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As the process of impeaching Rousseff began to take off, MBL started to morph into the organization it's known as today.
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Rio de Janeiro (CNN)A congressional committee in Brazil's lower house on Monday voted in favor of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff.
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Francis Rooney said Saturday he would not run for reelection, after suggesting he could be open to impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Our CNN polling showed that support for impeaching and removing Trump was up from 41% pre-impeachment inquiry to 47% now.
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"The people understand it's a scam," he said and accused Democrats of trying to win the 2020 election by impeaching him.
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Sanders didn't take the bait, pivoting to talking about impeaching President Donald Trump and the various other crises America faces. Sen.
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Gillum won as an unabashed progressive who backed "Medicare for all," impeaching Trump and standing up to the National Rifle Association.
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There is also the small possibility that the Brazilian Senate votes against impeaching Rousseff, which would lead only to further uncertainty.
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Scott Perry and Alan Dershowitz discuss the president&aposs tweet and the possibility of impeaching U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Brad Sherman of California and Al Green of Texas, are two of the few vocal proponents in Congress for impeaching Trump.
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In the 1973 poll, 34% of Democrats supported impeaching Nixon, compared to 70% of Democrats who want to impeach Trump today.
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It's also unclear if he'll have any co-sponsors, though Green has not been alone in his calls for impeaching Trump.
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Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) says he still intends to hold a vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for next week.
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And despite the new revelation on Wednesday, not one lawmaker appeared to shift positions on the idea of impeaching Mr. Trump.
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Impeaching Trump would not end the Trump Effect, but it would delegitimize it as the official voice of the United States.
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A CNN poll released Sunday found that 41 percent of Americans support impeaching Trump, compared to 54 percent who oppose it.
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A Fox News poll last week found that a majority of US voters support impeaching Trump and removing him from office.
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Beto O'Rourke, another Democratic presidential candidate, also called out Trump over the Post's story and issued another call for impeaching Trump.
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A Quinnipiac University poll published on September 25 found that just 37% of Americans supported impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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One potential billionaire rival, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, has been pressing two hot Democratic buttons, environmental protection and impeaching Trump.
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Impeaching Trump is different than removing him from office Getting rid of a president using impeachment is a two-step process.
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Congressional Democrats also haven't embraced the idea of impeaching Trump even though the Mueller report reads like a roadmap for it.
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A package that was sent to Steyer, who has launched a group aimed at impeaching Trump, was intercepted in Burlingame, Calif.
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Justin Amash of Michigan, a former Republican turned Independent, risked his seat and his political career to call for impeaching Trump.
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Sheila Jackson Lee didn't back the Republican-led impeachment inquiry against Clinton, but has come out in favor of impeaching Trump.
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Hours before claiming the gavel, Pelosi sought to pump the brakes on talk within her conference of impeaching Trump (The Hill).
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Two years after her shocking win in a monolithic Brooklyn Democratic district she was taking part in impeaching the Republican president.
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And the best way to show Trump that people are serious about impeaching him is to put the message on television.
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But to assume that impeaching Trump could end the distraction and let Republicans get back to legislating ignores three inconvenient facts.
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The House responded by quickly impeaching the president, but he ended up being acquitted in the Senate by a single vote.
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With Democrats winning back a foothold of power by capturing the House last year, enthusiasm for impeaching Mr. Trump has ebbed.
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He supports universal health care, legalizing marijuana and abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — as well as impeaching Mr. Trump.
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Newt, you must remember, carried on a six-year extramarital affair with her while impeaching a president for having an affair.
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Just 973 percent of moderate and conservative Democrats say they support impeaching and removing Mr. Trump, while 21 percent are opposed.
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But she had previously insisted that impeaching the president without the Senate votes needed for conviction would be a futile exercise.
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"We have to do our job," said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an early advocate of impeaching Mr. Trump, earlier this month.
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And other recent polls, including one from NBC/WSJ, suggest that fewer Americans support impeaching and removing the president than not.
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Impeachment was the first topic discussed at the outset of the debate, with several candidates outlining their support for impeaching Trump.
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In a recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove argued that Democrats were hypocrites for impeaching Donald Trump.
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Owen Shroyer of Infowars is removed at the beginning of the House Judiciary Committee hearing about impeaching President Trump on Monday.
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If the House votes next week to impeach President Trump, some lawmakers warn that impeaching presidents could become the new normal.
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As in previous POLITICO/Morning Consult polls, support for actually impeaching and removing Trump tracks closely with support for the inquiry.
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By the way, Pelosi has the votes if she felt such a vote would make a difference to actually impeaching Trump.
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In the case of impeaching the president, the lyrics to the classic Motown song "It Takes Two" very much hold true.
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As for Kasich, he actually supports impeaching Trump, and as a member of Congress, Kasich also voted to impeach Bill Clinton.
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The House Judiciary Committee is holding another hearing, during which congressional investigators will lay out their case for impeaching the President.
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" He added, "Anytime you talk about impeaching a president -- the third time in our nation's history -- that's a very serious vote.
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A Politico Morning Consult poll published as the story broke shows support for impeaching Trump actually went down to 36 percent.
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The House Judiciary Committee formally presented its case for impeaching Mr. Trump in a 658-page report published online early Monday.
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But there is some truth here that some (not all) Democrats talked about impeaching Trump even before the Ukraine scandal hit.
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Some of the persuasion is also targeting moderate Democrats who party officials worry could side with Republicans on impeaching the president.
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Even House Democrats were not convinced; for months, less than half of the lawmakers in their ranks supported impeaching Mr. Trump.
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" She was asked if impeaching Trump will lead to a backlash against Democrats "This has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
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Matt Gaetz suggested impeaching former President Barack Obama on Wednesday during a hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Democrats' ads touting their prescription drug bill helps their members push back on claims they're not doing anything besides impeaching Trump.
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Republicans have used the deal as a political tool for months, arguing Democrats focused on impeaching Trump rather than replacing NAFTA.
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The announcement brought the House one step closer to impeaching a president for only the third time in the nation's history.
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It should be noted that several Republicans voiced support for impeaching Hillary Clinton before the 2016 presidential election even took place.
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" Dershowitz writes in the book that impeaching Trump would be possible "if he did it because he was paid or extorted.
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It has been followed in recent days by a series of smaller parties that have thrown their weight behind impeaching her.
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A Democratic House could also become more vocal about impeaching the president, or push for more investigations into the Trump administration.
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As the House prepares to vote on impeaching President Trump, there is no doubt that the Republican Party is behind him.
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Washington (CNN)As the House barrels toward impeaching President Donald Trump, both Republicans and Democrats put themselves on display (on television).
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On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would investigate impeaching Trump in the wake of the Zelensky call.
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I reached out to Sherman to get some answers to these questions, and to hear his case for impeaching the president.
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Politico: After advice from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.), Trump lays off GOP senators on impeachment.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) even claimed Democrats are too busy investigating Trump to pass USMCA.
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) knocked Democrats on Wednesday, arguing they were playing politics.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) co-sponsored the amendment that added the funds to the bill.
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CNN poll finds support for impeaching Trump is up among independents and Republicans Americans are about evenly split over impeaching Trump and removing him from office, as support for that move has risen among independents and Republicans, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after the announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry by House Democrats last week.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) has warned against rushing to sanction a NATO ally.
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LEVIN: Well, I&aposm not sure, but I do know this, if they succeed in impeaching the President and they won&apost remove him because they&aposll never have the votes in the Senate, but just impeaching the President, you&aposre going to have over 60 million Americans who voted for this President who are going to be furious.
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For the first time we find more voters (48%) in support of impeaching Trump than there are (41%) opposed to the idea.
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He noted that O'Rourke has expressed an openness toward abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and impeaching President Donald Trump.
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LINK Trump calls Romney an ass, suggests impeaching him -- This is what's in store for Republicans who, like Romney, criticize Trump's behavior.
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" Cupp went on to press Duffy about Trump's approving quote of a claim that impeaching him would lead to a "civil war.
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Francis Rooney, a Republican, said he would consider impeaching Trump -- and then promptly announced his plan to retire from Congress in 2020.
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In particular, support for impeachment surged among independent voters, 45 percent of whom now back impeaching Trump, while 32 percent oppose it.
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Voters in the Emerson survey were slightly in favor of impeaching Trump, with 22019 percent in support and 44 percent in opposition.
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At the same time, some GOP senators strongly doubted that the House Democrats are prepared to do anything short of impeaching him.
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A "no" vote would have meant keeping Green's resolution on the House floor and proceeding to an actual vote on impeaching Trump.
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Franklin won approval for the process of impeaching presidents by observing that without it, the sole method of premature removal was assassination.
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Caution on impeaching Trump Sanders rang notes of caution on Democrats pursuing President Donald Trump's impeachment, just an hour after Massachusetts Sen.
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Justin Amash, whose public opining on impeaching President Donald Trump has earned him denunciations from the conservative House caucus he helped found.
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The prospect of impeaching Trump has largely been downplayed by Democrats since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued it would be counter-productive.
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Republicans cannot stop Democrats from impeaching Mr. Trump, but they are determined to ensure that any vote to do so is partisan.
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Schiff told the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday that, barring a "bombshell" in the report, impeaching Trump should be off the table.
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Among Republicans, 28500 percent said they disapprove of impeaching and removing Trump while 6900 percent said they would support the president's removal.
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But both impeaching Trump and removing him from office gets less support in public opinion surveys, particularly in some electoral swing states.
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Washington (CNN)Turning over former US Ambassador Michael McFaul to Russia for questioning would be grounds for impeaching President Donald Trump, Rep.
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A new Insider poll shows that support for impeaching President Donald Trump is rising along with increasing knowledge of the Ukraine scandal.
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When Insider polled on October 4th and 5th, 22019% of Democrats said they support impeaching Trump — a jump of nine percentage points.
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Washington (CNN)A resolution to start the process of impeaching President Donald Trump was tabled Wednesday, following a push from Democratic Rep.
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But Delay said House Democrats would be able to move forward on impeaching Trump as long as they don't overplay their hand.
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But, Nadler's eagerness to investigate Trump doesn't mean he wants to rush toward impeaching the President as some other House Democrats do.
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Two weeks into a House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, only 30% of Americans say they're against impeaching the sitting president.
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There is a strong and serious case for impeaching Trump, and the Constitution gives Congress the power to investigate and remove him.
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Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) says he still intends to hold a vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for next week.
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Most of its recent ad buys advocate for impeaching Trump and funding candidates to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
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The two were joined by special guest George Conway, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway's husband who's an outspoken supporter of impeaching Trump.
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Support for impeaching Ms. Rousseff slipped to 61 percent in a new public opinion survey by Datafolha, a prominent Brazilian polling company.
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He's backed by Ocasio-Cortez, supports impeaching POTUS, and he wants to take the incumbent's seat (who is now running for governor).
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Steyer has been an outspoken advocate of impeaching President Trump, and he's now the biggest individual sourceof money and resources for Democrats.
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How the escalating battle affects the viability of legislation and the pressure within the House to consider impeaching Trump is anyone's guess.
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There are plenty of things that Republicans should do about Trump, including impeaching him for violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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But her father, Paul Beale Jr., 91, worried that impeaching the president would energize Mr. Trump's base and help re-elect him.
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If Democrats do pursue impeachment, they will be flying somewhat in the face of public opinion if they move toward impeaching Trump.
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In fact, the current map of Google searches for impeaching President Trump almost perfectly matches the map of visits to Daily Kos.
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But support for an inquiry into possible impeachment is not synonymous with support for actually impeaching and removing a president from office.
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Either way, Democrats would know that the political case for impeaching and removing Trump had become even stronger than it already is.
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NATIONAL An article on Monday about Democratic voters' perspective on impeaching President Trump misspelled the surname of a New Hampshire Democratic activist.
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Bribery is one of the Constitution's specific prohibitions on executive conduct, second only to treason as a reason for impeaching a president.
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A few months later the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing in which Republicans discussed impeaching Mr. Obama, although it went nowhere.
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When I wrote Faithless Execution, my 2014 book about impeachment, I well understood that there was no prospect of impeaching President Obama.
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That poll found that 28500 percent of voters surveyed supported impeaching and removing the president, compared with 6900 percent who opposed it.
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Jim Jordan of Ohio said Democrats are impeaching because "they don't like us" and read out a long list of Trump's accomplishments.
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He said the Republican Party had never been as united as it was now, since the entire party voted against impeaching him.
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" Of the 28503 percent who oppose impeaching the president, some two-thirds think he has been "the victim of an unfair investigation.
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The new survey shows that 13 percent of voters support the House impeaching Trump, and 21 percent support the Senate removing him.
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But top House Democrats said Friday they have no regrets with impeaching Trump, even if it might have bolstered his electoral prospects.
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The case for impeaching President Richard Nixon was not open and shut, at least as far as the American public was concerned.
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That poll showed support for impeaching and removing Trump had stayed about the same — slightly trailing the opposition — despite a Republican onslaught.
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The articles are then set to be debated Thursday in the Judiciary Committee, with the aim of impeaching the President before Christmas.
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Applying these historical truths to the current situation, the case for impeaching President Trump based on the available evidence is extremely weak.
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The process is similar to impeaching a president and requires significant political support, something that seems unlikely in such a divided environment.
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One hundred and thirty Democrats now support impeaching Mr. Trump, a number that has grown in the weeks since the recess began.
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Mr. Sayid, who supports Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, worried that impeaching Mr. Trump was not a great idea.
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For example, a CNN survey released on Monday found that 47 percent of respondents support impeaching Trump and removing him from office.
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There are no written rules governing the timetable for delivery of the House decision impeaching Donald Trump to the Senate, only custom.
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Last week a majority of voters, 2202 percent, said they approve of the House impeaching Trump, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
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For instance, Nadler pointed to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who will argue against impeaching and removing the president later this week.
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If that were the case, it would mean impeaching a president for maintaining a position that you believe the courts would uphold.
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To the Editor: Many have remarked that impeaching the president is a vain exercise given the unlikelihood of conviction in the Senate.
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Sometimes the positions are in favor of the consideration — impeaching Mr. Trump, for example — and sometimes they are in opposition to it.
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House Democrats seem likely to succeed in impeaching him, and will lay down a historical marker on the limits of presidential power.
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Throughout Kavanaugh's confirmation process, senators will likely scrutinize his role in a report outlining the case for impeaching former President Bill Clinton.
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This episode shows how the Democrats have exploited the Intelligence Committee for political purposes for three years, culminating in these impeaching hearings.
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But depending on Jackson's ruling, McGahn's case could be pivotal for the House as it considers impeaching the President on multiple counts.
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Jeff Flake told NPR that at least 35 GOP Senators would support impeaching Trump if they were allowed to vote in secret.
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Regardless, with Democrats in the majority, all signs point to the House eventually impeaching Trump and sending the case to the Senate.
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A Republican close to the president said the notion that impeaching Trump will help his campaign, as some are pushing, is ludicrous.
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The majority leader recalled what he described as the "price" that Republicans paid for impeaching Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
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The House is open to the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump a second time, lawyers for the Judiciary Committee said Monday.
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Depending on who you asked this week, Democrats may -- or may not -- have made a step forward on impeaching President Donald Trump.
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All year, Pelosi's new majority has been under pressure from activists and certain of its members to move forward with impeaching Trump.
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They have only to refrain from impeaching Mr Trump, not because it would be unwarranted, but because it would be too hard.■
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"The opposition parties will move resolutely together toward impeaching her," said Ki Dong-min, a spokesman for the main opposition Democratic Party.
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Impeaching Trump has been a rallying cry among the progressive base, though party leaders have frequently sought to tamp down such talk.
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A Reuters/Ipsos poll taken on Monday and Tuesday showed 37% of respondents favored impeaching the president versus 20163% who were opposed.
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For two of Minnesota's vulnerable Democrats, the move to support impeaching Trump was a deeply personal decision made at 30,000 feet. Rep.
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This came an hour before Pelosi appeared before cameras that Democrats were impeaching Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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By the numbers: Quinnipiac found that 27% of voters favor impeaching and removing Trump from office, compared with 47% who do not.
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Objections on the merits: Some Democrats do appear to think that, on the merits, impeaching Trump simply isn't justified at this point.
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Impeaching Trump may not be a political gold mine, but the evidence that it would tank Democratic prospects in 53 seems thin.
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This is a convenient answer politically — it's an easy response to base voters who ask Democrats why they're not impeaching Trump yet.
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But she also seems to think the president is trying to goad Democrats into impeaching him as a way to stoke controversy.
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So keep in mind, he is two weeks into an investigation and he&aposs already talking about impeaching the target of his investigation.
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Waters, who has been a steady proponent of impeaching President Donald Trump, appealed to the rest of the caucus at the Tuesday meeting.
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After conservatives had agreed to back down from the impeachment push, Speaker Paul Ryan announced publicly that he did not support impeaching Rosenstein.
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These are not the types of numbers on which you'd expect droves of Republican members of Congress to come out for impeaching Trump.
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If her current let's-just-hold-your-horses position on impeaching Trump becomes untenable for her own politics, she will likely give in.
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It&aposs now because they can&apost run on the economy anymore, they&aposre telling Maxine and others to be quiet about impeaching.
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Wilkes also supports impeaching President Donald Trump, while Hoyer and the rest of the House Democratic leadership have declined to go that far.
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" -- October 231 tweet Facts First: There was no announcement that the poll -- which found 232009% support for impeaching and removing Trump -- was "incorrect.
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Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympics, but Brazil was mostly in the headlines because of a different kind of sport: impeaching the president.
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When the most accurate pollster in Wisconsin (Marquette) in 2018 reveals that impeaching and removing Trump is not popular, it's a critical finding.
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There are just two precedents for impeaching a president over obstruction of justice that he can rely on: Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
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Some of the support for impeaching Trump and the impeachment inquiry against him may be because of polarization and dislike for the President.
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A Reuters-Ipsos poll last week found support for impeaching Trump surging among independents to 45 percent, with just 85033 percent opposing it.
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Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, tried to get Mueller to essentially wipe away the notion that his report recommends impeaching the president.
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Politics After special counsel Robert Mueller's report came out last week, Democratic leaders quickly worked to tamp down talk about impeaching President Trump.
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However, some legislators said they didn&apost support impeaching any justice for wasteful spending, only for articles pertaining to lying, cheating or stealing.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has resisted impeaching the President, fearing a political backlash that could cost the Democrats their House majority next year.
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Most Democrats — 62 percent — support starting impeachment proceedings, and 53 percent of Democrats said they strongly believe the House should begin impeaching Trump.
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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday said that impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is the least Congress can do.
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Still, the party's few remaining cooler heads understand that impeaching Kavanaugh is a lunatic idea, talk of which is already firing up Republicans.
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He is reportedly expected to make his final report soon, which Democrats anticipate could be a key step toward possibly impeaching the president.
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Forty-nine percent of voters in the poll support the House impeaching Trump, and 28500 percent support the Senate removing him from office.
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Over 20193% of respondents polled by Insider who are undecided in 22019 aren't sure whether or not they support impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Beating him and putting a Democrat in office is probably a much more tantalizing idea to someone like Nancy Pelosi than impeaching Trump.
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Eighteen percent of Democrats in the new survey said lawmakers should not begin impeaching Trump, and 15 percent said they did not know.
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Impeaching Rosenstein, an idea most politicians have agreed is purely a way to shut down Mueller, turns out to be an active project.
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Support among Wisconsin voters for impeaching President Trump has dipped slightly since the start of the public hearings, according to a new poll.
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Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, has also been a long-time supporter of impeaching Trump.
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Some in the caucus have pushed for impeaching Trump following the release of Mueller's report; however, House leaders have pointedly downplayed that possibility.
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Romney of Utah listed reasons for impeaching the president, including racist rhetoric, extramarital affairs, and abandonment of the US' Kurdish allies in Syria.
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Insider's most recent poll found that respondents who support impeaching Trump edged over the majority threshold, with 50.2% of survey-takers backing impeachment.
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A CNN poll released this week found a whopping 61% of women support impeaching and removing Trump, while 53% of men oppose impeachment.
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" Appearing on screen, Steyer asks, "If that isn't a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become?
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In August, 49 percent of Americans surveyed by The Washington Post and ABC News favored impeaching Mr. Trump, while 46 percent opposed it.
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It turns out Speaker Nancy Pelosi might have been onto something when she talked about Trump being "almost self-impeaching" several months ago.
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Other than talking about Russia, raising taxes and impeaching the president, Democrats are incapable of producing one positive idea to help people's lives.
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This would allow lawmakers to effectively manufacture the grounds for impeachment by setting abbreviated investigations then impeaching when presidents turn to the courts.
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But the congressman grew frustrated with the party as he remained one of its only holdouts in terms of support for impeaching Trump.
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Though several polls have shown overall support for impeaching Trump to be ticking upward, Republicans remain firmly opposed to removing him from office.
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Some conservative Republicans talked about impeaching President Barack Obama over everything from the Benghazi attack to the birther conspiracy theory without following through.
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But notice the difference: Under those circumstances, the House would not be impeaching the president over a purported felony obstruction of justice offense.
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" A right-wing group, Americans for Limited Government, offered this take: "Pelosi proposes impeaching Trump for denouncing Obama-Biden-led corruption in Ukraine.
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The new survey found that 46 percent of independent respondents and 14 percent of Republican respondents support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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In multiple polls, roughly half of Americans not only agree with impeaching Trump but also believe the Senate should remove him from office.
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The possibility that he will carry them out means the House should gird itself for the necessity of impeaching Trump a second time.
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The vice president went on to say that considering Trump's achievements, the American people were not going to go for impeaching the president.
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A Republican staff lawyer said that Democrats were "obsessed with impeaching President Trump" and merely looking for a new way to do it.
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Cause Giuliani's mouth is full of his feet … Out of the midterms, the House will sue Impeaching to the sound of a tweet!
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The hearings are the next step for Democrats as they move closer to impeaching a President for the third time in US history.
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Most respondents to both polls say they've made up their minds on impeaching Trump, regardless of what is actually said at the hearings.
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Congress now has backup if it wants to impeach on obstruction Democrats are considering impeaching Trump for obstructing Congress for blocking its subpoenas.
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The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll also released Sunday found 49% in favor of impeaching and removing the President, 46% were opposed.
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Democrats hope that will avoid any further erosion in public support and that they can make a compelling case for impeaching the president.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had long resisted pressure from her caucus to pursue impeaching Trump, announced a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, the 72% in favor of impeaching and removing Trump was quite lower than the 83% who disapproved of his job in office.
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He thinks the inability to persuade more Americans of President Trump's guilt argues for impeaching the president quickly before moving onto other issues.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a press conference on Tuesday that lawmakers were impeaching Trump to "honor our oath of office."Rep.
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But the same poll showed 7 in 10 self-identified Democrats favor both impeaching Trump and Nadler opening an investigation to do that.
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So, if all of those members are present, the magic number for impeaching Trump (or passing anything through the House) would be 216.
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The former congressman has called for impeaching Trump this past week on MSNBC and CNN, but hasn't scored an invite from Fox News.
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Although there are some minor differences, the vast majority of the national polls show roughly the same thing on impeaching and removing Trump.
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Soon the job of assessing risks both to his party and his country will pass to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.).
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) has offered his own resolution, which was met with quick opposition from Democrats.
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C.) is spearheading the resolution, which is backed by 44 GOP senators including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.).
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Grassley is explicitly and publicly making the case to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) that his bill would help vulnerable Republicans.
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A man seen in a viral video declining to shake Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE's (R-Ky.) hand at the late Rep.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.) on Thursday backed a resolution condemning the impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens A diverse intern-to-member pipeline will lead to a truer representation of our democracy For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeaching him MORE (R-Ky.), who supports the resolution, has not said if it will come up for a vote.
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O'Rourke broke with Pelosi on the consequences of impeachment proceedings For weeks, O'Rourke has called for Congress to begin the process of impeaching Trump.
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North Carolina Congressman Freedom Caucus Chair Mike Meadows and noted Attorney Alan Dershowitz, author of the new book, &aposThe Case Against Impeaching Trump&apos.
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Earlier this week, Luigi Di Maio, who leads Parliament&aposs largest party, the euro-skeptic 5-Star Movement, raised the specter of impeaching Mattarella.
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In an interview with USA Today the day she was elected speaker of the House, Pelosi said "I'm not seeking" grounds for impeaching Trump.
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Some Republicans want the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to vote on impeaching Koskinen before Congress leaves for its midyear break in July.
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Keith Ellison floated the idea of impeaching President Trump during a CNN debate on Wednesday between contenders for the Democratic National Committee chair position.
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Members-elect Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two high-profile progressives of the freshmen class, have also said they would support impeaching Trump.
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Not impeaching Trump would also exacerbate the risk of the century-long trend of strengthening the executive branch at the expense of the legislature.
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She saw him vote against impeaching President Donald Trump and pledge his "undying support" to Trump in a televised meeting at the White House.
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Kavanaugh may also have lied under oath, and some Democrats are already talking about impeaching him should he be appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Nearly 84 percent of Democrats but just 11 percent of Republicans favor impeaching Mr. Trump, according to the website FiveThirtyEight, which tracks impeachment polling.
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What's the point: A look at the national polls indicate that impeaching and removing Trump from office is at, a minimum, a plurality position.
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Our CNN/SSRS poll out this week showed that 503% of voters nationwide support impeaching and removing from office compared to 250% who disagreed.
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" She was equally equivocal speaking on Today: "We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason.
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Other highlights: The phone survey, conducted from June 6-10, found that the majority of the public still does not support impeaching President Trump.
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A more damning report on Mr Trump, including a clear allegation of criminality, would have made it hard for them to avoid impeaching him.
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While opinion polls suggest a majority of Brazilians, around 60 percent, support impeaching Rousseff, pro-impeachment demonstrations have been dominated by the middle classes.
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News outlets celebrated yet another Trump opponent and used the opportunity to talk about the left's favorite issue – impeaching or removing Trump from office.
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Al Green, the Texas Democrat who has long beat the drum for impeaching Trump, announced that he would introduce articles of impeachment Tuesday night.
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However, both are vocal Trump critics and have published writings outlining a case for impeaching or indicting the president for obstructing justice, CNN reports.
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But last month, Porter became one of the first Democrats who won Republican districts in 2018 to come out in support of impeaching Trump.
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Nadler, who would lead impeaching proceedings if the House pursues them, has been privately lobbying Pelosi that the House should begin an impeachment inquiry.
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Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who floated the possibility of impeaching Trump even before the president was sworn in, said she might endorse Sherman's resolution.
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More than half -- 52% -- disapprove, and about four in 10 Americans support impeaching Trump just six months into his term, including 70% of Democrats.
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Also in the coming week, the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold its third hearing on impeaching Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
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There are still many hurdles to impeaching Trump, not least that it would require the complicity of a significant minority of Republicans in Congress.
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Democrats are currently expected to retake the House in this fall's midterms, and impeaching a president requires only a majority vote in the House.
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Unlike some rank-and-file Democrats in Congress, Pelosi has been openly skeptical about impeaching Trump, instead calling for the investigation to play out.
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The signs say that Abigail Spanberger supports impeaching the president, "open borders" and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The Washington Post.
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Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), filed a "privileged resolution" on impeaching Koskinen in July in an effort to force a vote on the House floor.
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In November, Strange asked Alabama's House Judiciary Committee to end an investigation into impeaching the governor because of "related work" in his own office.
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The difference was dramatic, and his new account supports the "quid pro quo" accusation on which much of the argument for impeaching Trump hinges.
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Nevertheless, opinion polls show more than 60 percent of Brazilians support impeaching Rousseff, less than two years after the leftist leader narrowly won reelection.
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" Ocasio-Cortez has previously said she would support impeaching Trump, telling CNN last year that she believed "we have the grounds to do it.
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Mitt Romney of Utah listed several reasons for impeaching Trump, including racist rhetoric, extramarital affairs, and abandonment of the US's Kurdish allies in Syria.
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Half of Americans say they support impeaching President Donald Trump, the highest amount of support shown in four weeks of consecutive polling by Insider.
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Suspicious-minded people wondered if this effort was truly aimed at impeaching Trump — or at promoting Tom Steyer in advance of a presidential run.
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As some Democrats talk about impeaching President Trump in the wake of the Mueller report, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is advising a more cautious approach.
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David Leonhardt thinks the report reveals a man unfit to serve as president, even if impeaching him may not be politically wise right now.
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A majority of registered voters now approve of the House's inquiry into impeaching the president, a poll released on Monday by Quinnipiac University showed.
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Republican senators who justified impeaching him partly because they thought he'd be chastened by the experience were either fooling themselves or the American people.
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Most despicable of all, the Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress has suggested that impeaching Trump could cause a "Civil War-like fracture" in the country.
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Polls suggest a big rise in support for impeaching the president among Democrats, a significant one among independents, and a modest uptick among Republicans.
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Blagojevich found a home to publish his take on the president's impeachment because he'd once served in the House and voted against impeaching Clinton.
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While most polling shows that about 50% Americans now favor impeaching Trump, not a single Republican voted for last week's resolution formalizing impeachment procedures.
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A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday found support for impeaching Trump tracked higher over the past few weeks of televised impeachment hearings.
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Forty-six percent of registered Florida voters surveyed support impeaching Trump and removing him from office, while 220006 percent are opposed to the prospect.
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Forty-five percent of Americans in a new CNBC poll disapprove of Congress impeaching Trump, while 44 percent approve and 11 percent are unsure.
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Public support in favor of impeaching Trump has remained between 47 percent and 50 percent since late September, according to polling data from CNN.
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Republicans have signaled they plan to paint Democrats as obsessed with impeaching the president at the expense of scoring legislative wins for their constituents.
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Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party suffered for impeaching Bill Clinton — a point some Democrats have made in arguing against the Trump impeachment.
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A USA Today/Ipsos poll from last week shows growing support for the House impeaching Trump over his phone call with the Ukrainian leader.
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Warren was the first major presidential candidate to call for impeaching the President back in April, just days after Robert Mueller's report was released.
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Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican who has criticized the president's behavior in the Ukraine matter, nonetheless said he would vote against impeaching him.
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"And we are anxious to hear what the evidence is that justifies impeaching the president 13 months before the next election," the senator said.
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What Happened: For more than two years, it has seemed as if nothing could prompt Congress to consider the possibility of impeaching President Trump.
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A half century ago, a popular lapel pin urged Americans to celebrate the centennial of the impeachment of President Johnson by … impeaching President Johnson.
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A CNN national survey conducted in May indicated that a clear majority opposed impeaching and removing the president (41 percent yes, 51 percent no).
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Instead, the candidates were asked about issues on which they agree totally and completely -- what Democratic presidential candidate isn't going to support impeaching Trump???
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In a CNN poll released Tuesday, a full 61 percent of women were in favor of impeaching Trump while 34 percent were against it.
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But he would have done that even if they had uncovered a smoking gun or were impeaching him for shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
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"For the past three years, the socialist Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching the president and backfilling in the reason after the fact," Rep.
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Yet insiders say it is here that Lula is waging his campaign to convince PMDB lawmakers to defy Temer and vote against impeaching Rousseff.
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The poll of 800 Americans nationwide found that 45% disapprove of Congress impeaching Trump and 44% approve, a split that's little changed from September.
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The Democrats hoping to replace President Donald Trump in the White House next year mostly praised the House for impeaching the president Wednesday night.
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In the flood of remarks from members, Democrats made their case for impeaching Trump, while Republicans urged the majority party to abandon its effort.
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President Donald Trump previously supported impeaching his two immediate predecessors and argued that impeachment would&aposve permanently tarred former President Barack Obama&aposs legacy.
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A FiveThirtyEight polling average shows that roughly 47 percent of Americans support impeaching the president while roughly the same proportion of voters do not.
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In 1974, one congressman took the brave and principled step of becoming the first Republican on the Judiciary Committee to support impeaching President Nixon.
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Nadler has been a vocal supporter of not just beginning the impeachment inquiry, but of actually impeaching President Trump, since before the process began.
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But one thing they do not show is the surge of support that Trump has been hyping as Democrats have moved toward impeaching him.
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After months in which House Democrats were torn over the political wisdom of impeaching President Trump, the Ukraine scandal brought peace to the land.
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She has been crystal clear for the last several months that she believes talking about impeaching Trump is a major mistake for her party.
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CNN/SSRS polling in both October and November found that 50 percent of Americans supported impeaching Trump, with the president's approval rating relatively unchanged.
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In each Fox News poll from October to now, between 22% and 51% of voters said they favored impeaching and removing Trump from office.
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He said in 2008 that Bush deliberately lied to start the war in Iraq, and attacked congressional Democrats for not impeaching him over it.
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Ted Cruz in November in the deep-red, pro-Trump state -- has both advocated impeaching Trump and downplayed the Democratic consequences of such an effort.
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But he declined to follow the example of Ken Starr, the independent counsel who offered a detailed guide to impeaching President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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Actually impeaching and removing the president from office is a very blunt tool, has never been done, and seems unlikely to happen given party polarization.
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Hank Johnson, also of Georgia, broached the subject of impeaching Trump, in a break with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has repeatedly quashed impeachment speculation.
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Sanford, a former congressman and South Carolina governor, said he'd be more likely to support censuring Trump over impeaching him this close to an election.
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Just 11% of Republicans favor impeaching and removing Trump from office in an average of polls taken since the House's impeachment inquiry began in September.
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The Nixon episode is enlightening because it reveals that the numbers on impeaching and removing him among Republicans didn't move until later into the process.
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The Maryland governor's father, Larry Hogan Sr., was the first Republican congressman to come out in favor of impeaching former President Richard Nixon in 1974.
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They refused to even consider the possibility of impeaching Trump until the fall, when Trump was accused of pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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Francis Rooney of Florida suggested on Friday that he could be open to impeaching Trump -- before announcing Saturday that he would not run for reelection.
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The public reaction to the massacre would force Nixon to appoint another special prosecutor to replace Cox, and accelerated congressional interest in impeaching the president.
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Among Republicans, just 6% say they support impeaching and removing the Republican President, lower than the 14% who said so in a September CNN poll.
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For instance, in 2016, conservative Brazilian politicians succeeded in impeaching center-leftist President Dilma Rousseff from the Workers' Party (known by its Brazilian initials, PT).
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Now, I should say that the impeachment inquiry is more popular than impeaching and remove across all of swing state polling mentioned in this article.
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They argue that, whatever the legal reasons for impeaching her, she should not be allowed to return to office for the good of the country.
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One Democratic argument from before the release of the redacted Mueller report last week is that Democrats would play into Trump's hands by impeaching him.
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Lebowitz made the remark during Friday's episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," after she had been asked for her opinion on impeaching Trump.
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Manchin had signaled Monday that he might vote against impeaching Trump when he floated the alternative idea of a bipartisan resolution to censure the president.
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Lee also raised the possibility of impeaching Trump during a commencement address at Texas Southern University this week, according to local Fox26 News in Houston.
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But this is only a problem if Democrats are incapable of distinguishing between the abstract merits of impeaching Trump and the political feasibility of it.
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There had been some talk about impeaching him, but Democrats in the Virginia legislature are backing off the impeachment drive for now (The Associated Press).
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A group of student senators tasked with considering impeachment must vote for impeaching Murphy's by a two-thirds majority, according to the student government constitution.
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Earlier this week, The Washington Post published an interview with Pelosi in which she came out strongly against impeaching Trump, calling impeachment a "divisive" issue.
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It has now become clear that her opposition's main purpose in impeaching her is to impede the investigations and prosecutions of themselves and their allies.
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Republicans say it's evidence of a lurch to the left by Democrats, where impeaching Trump and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement is quickly becoming mainstream.
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The figures are similar to a Post-Schar School poll from early October, which found that 220006 percent of respondents backed impeaching and removing Trump.
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Talese — whose use of the tools of fiction to propel factual accounts helped found New Journalism in the 1960s — drops the self-impeaching evidence casually.
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For over a year, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives wanted nothing to do with the growing interest in impeaching President Donald Trump.
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As much as impeaching or even removing President Trump from office would make millions of Americans happy, it would also severely anger millions of Americans.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees and former 2020 presidential candidate, supports impeaching Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that impeaching President Donald Trump is "almost not worth it" because of "what he is," according to Politico.
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The tax ad comes less than four weeks after Steyer's ad calling on elected officials to "take a stand" on whether they support impeaching Trump.
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Some have also proposed jailing those who do not comply under the same rarely used power, while others have raised the prospect of impeaching officials.
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" Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School and author of "The Case Against the Democratic House Impeaching Trump.
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