McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry
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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.
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Vox says:
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/28/23870322/biden-impeachment-hunter-shokin-big-guy-half-salary
The House is having its first impeachment hearing. What they don’t have is proof of their allegations.
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Don’t take it from me. Take it from Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who wrote this month: “What’s missing, despite years of investigation, is the smoking gun that connects Joe Biden to his ne’er-do-well son’s corruption.”
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Of course, the GOP’s impeachment effort isn’t really about what the evidence shows — it’s political. What’s really behind this is that the hard right has been demanding aggressive action against Biden, Trump wants payback for his own two impeachments, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to hold off threats to his speakership. The evidence is largely beside the point.Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO)'s op-ed:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/congressman-ken-buck-biden-impeachment/
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That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Vox says:
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/28/23870322/biden-impeachment-hunter-shokin-big-guy-half-salary
The House is having its first impeachment hearing. What they don’t have is proof of their allegations.
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Don’t take it from me. Take it from Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who wrote this month: “What’s missing, despite years of investigation, is the smoking gun that connects Joe Biden to his ne’er-do-well son’s corruption.”
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Of course, the GOP’s impeachment effort isn’t really about what the evidence shows — it’s political. What’s really behind this is that the hard right has been demanding aggressive action against Biden, Trump wants payback for his own two impeachments, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to hold off threats to his speakership. The evidence is largely beside the point.Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO)'s op-ed:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/congressman-ken-buck-biden-impeachment/
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@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Yes. Impeachment is a fool's errand. He'll never be convicted. I imagine the McCarthy strategy is to just prove that Biden (et al) are just corrupt enough to dissuade people from supporting him.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Politics.
There is no high ground.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Yes. Impeachment is a fool's errand. He'll never be convicted. I imagine the McCarthy strategy is to just prove that Biden (et al) are just corrupt enough to dissuade people from supporting him.
@George-K said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Yes. Impeachment is a fool's errand. He'll never be convicted. I imagine the McCarthy strategy is to just prove that Biden (et al) are just corrupt enough to dissuade people from supporting him.
And maybe throw enough stuff against the wall to enable some ethics legislation, while splattering mud on some Dems in Biden's orbit.
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@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Politics.
There is no high ground.
@Jolly said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
@Mik said in McCarthy opens impeachment inquiry:
That's not a reason to continue the same malfeasance.
Politics.
There is no high ground.
It could and should be a lot higher than it is now. Who is going to be the adult in the room?
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
