McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry
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@Renauda said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
Just over a year until next election.
My prediction is that this will delay and delay until after the election. That way, they can keep it in the front of the news without having to actually release any findings.
Very possible as it opens all kinds of opportunity for even more muck raking and malign innuendo.
Why let any pent up bile go to waste? It would be bad manners.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/media/white-house-letter-news-executives/index.html
The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime.
“It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the letter, according to a draft copy obtained by CNN.
The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” will be sent to executives helming the nation’s largest news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News, and others, a White House official familiar with the matter said.
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@LuFins-Dad at least McCarthy had the good sense to wait more than four and a half hours after Biden took office...
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@LuFins-Dad at least McCarthy had the good sense to wait more than four and a half hours after Biden took office...
@George-K said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
@LuFins-Dad at least McCarthy had the good sense to wait more than four and a half hours after Biden took office...
Alas, they didn’t. One of the crazy ass Maga bitches filed articles of impeachment on Jan 21, 2021.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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@George-K said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
@LuFins-Dad at least McCarthy had the good sense to wait more than four and a half hours after Biden took office...
Alas, they didn’t. One of the crazy ass Maga bitches filed articles of impeachment on Jan 21, 2021.
@jon-nyc said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
Alas, they didn’t. One of the crazy ass Maga bitches filed articles of impeachment on Jan 21, 2021.
Wikipedia:
On January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed an article of impeachment against President Biden. Her articles related to the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory. Greene alleged abuse of power while Biden previously served as vice president of the United States. Her article of impeachment claimed that Viktor Shokin was investigating the founder of Burisma Holdings, a natural gas giant in Ukraine. Biden's son Hunter Biden had served as a member of the board since 2014.
Well, there you go.
And the witch from Mass threatened it even before Trump was inaugurated.
In December 2016, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin, Chris Coons, Ben Cardin, and Jeff Merkley introduced a bill that would require the president of the United States to divest any assets that could raise a conflict of interest, including a statement that failure to divest such assets would constitute high crimes and misdemeanors "under the impeachment clause of the U.S. Constitution".
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This is interesting:
But McCarthy’s decision to open the impeachment inquiry on his own without an authorization vote from the entire House could open the door for the Biden administration to challenge Republican subpoenas. In 2019, when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into former President Donald Trump, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion saying the inquiry—and resultant subpoenas—was invalid because the House had not formally voted to authorize it. Five weeks later, the House voted to endorse the impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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It’s actually binding on the Biden Administration unless they go outbid their way to issue a new opinion.
That opinion — issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — came in response to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into Trump without initially holding a vote for it. Not only is it still on the books, it is binding on the current administration as it responds to Tuesday’s announcement by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to authorize an impeachment inquiry into Biden, again without a vote.
