Analysis: Impeach Trump? House Democrats are stuck if they do, stuck if they don’t.
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 8 at 11:37 AM There’s a valid case to be made that Congress must do something to punish President Trump’s obstruction-y behavior, as outlined in Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia report. If nothing else, the argument goes, a warning must be sent to future presidents that this is not okay.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summed this up Tuesday at Cornell University: “We can’t impeach him for political reasons, and we can’t not impeach him for political reasons. We have to see where the facts take us.” .@SpeakerPelosi on President Trump: “Every day the President is making a case. He’s becoming self-impeachable.” https://t.co/hAuZk6usS4 #PostLive pic.twitter.com/1IlzhydIHs
But today’s House Democrats are struggling to navigate a particularly perfect storm of partisanship that makes their constitutionally mandated task of overseeing the executive branch especially difficult.
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