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(Undated) Impeachment in the United States
is an
enumerated power of the
legislature that allows formal charges to be brought against a civil officer
of government for crimes alleged to have been committed. ... At the
federal level,
Article II of the United States Constitution states in Section 4 that "The
President,
Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed
from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of,
Treason,
Bribery, or
other
High Crimes and Misdemeanors." ... Typically, the lower house of the
legislature (House of Representatives) impeaches the official and the
upper
house (Senate) conducts the trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
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February 22:
Kentucky Dem questions Trump's mental health
Rep.
John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) became the
latest Democratic lawmaker this week to openly question President Trump’s mental
health.
Yarmuth said in remarks to a local NAACP chapter that were
posted on YouTube this
week that Trump is “totally unfit for the office he serves in.”
"He is, in my opinion, a dangerous president. I'm not sure of his mental state,
but I know that he doesn't portray someone who is in control of his faculties,”
Yarmuth said in comments first highlighted by
CNN's KFile.
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/kentucky-dem-questions-trumps-mental-health
April 16: Maxine Waters On Trump: 'I Will
Fight Every Day Until He Is Impeached'
The California congresswoman also vowed to keep pushing for the release of the
President’s tax returns at the D.C. Tax March
https://www.essence.com/news/maxine-waters-trump-taxes-impeach
May 15: Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz called reports that President Trump revealed highly classified
information to Russian officials “the most serious charge ever made against a
sitting president.” ... Trump’s “code-word information” disclosure risks
damaging the relationship with the intelligence source, which has access to
ISIS's inner workings.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333541-dershowitz-this-is-the-most-serious-charge-ever-made-against-a
May 15: Nearly half of U.S.
voters support Trump impeachment as President's approval numbers dip further,
poll shows ...
http://nydn.us/2qrNdea
May 16: If President Trump truly did
ask James Comey to end the investigation into national security adviser Michael
Flynn -- as the former FBI director is
said to have claimed in a memo -- then the United States has reached a rare
tipping point, David Gergen
said Tuesday night. "After watching the Clinton impeachment I thought I'd never
see another one, but I think we're in impeachment territory now for the first
time ..."
Gergen, who advised two US Presidents who faced impeachment processes --
Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton -- says it appears Donald Trump was
intentionally trying to influence the direction of the FBI's probe into Flynn.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/david-gergen-impeachment-territory-anderson-cooper-360-cnntv/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
May 18: "As I have stated many times, a thorough investigation will
confirm what we already know – there was no collusion between my campaign and
any foreign entity," President Donald Trump said in a statement. "I look forward
to this matter concluding quickly. In the meantime, I will never stop fighting
for the people and the issues that matter most to the future of our country."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawmakers-praise-special-counsel-appointed-oversee-russia-investigation/story?id=47474713
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May 19:
Democratic establishment eases up on impeachment talk
Less than 24 hours after news broke that President
Donald Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop
investigating former national security adviser Mike Flynn, Democratic Rep. Al
Green gave an impassioned speech on the House Floor supporting impeaching the
President.
http://merlefm.com/democratic-establishment-eases-up-on-impeachment-talk/
May 22: Will Donald Trump Be Impeached?
After a cacophonous two weeks of political news, a new sound has begun to emerge
from Washington: the word “impeachment.” Following the
news that President Trump may have tried to bully FBI director James Comey
out of investigating Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia, Sen. Angus King of Maine,
an independent,
told CNN that recent allegations, if true, are already making impeachment
hearings more likely.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/chance-donald-trump-impeached/
June 7: Rep.
Al Green (D-Texas) has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump and is
reportedly readying the articles of impeachment that mark the first official
step of any congressional bid to remove a sitting president.
Green’s criticisms focus on Trump’s controversial firing of former FBI Director James Comey last month amid the bureau’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.
Trump reportedly urged Comey to halt the investigation of his former national
security adviser, Michael Flynn, ahead of his ouster.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/336683-eric-trump-dems-not-even-people
June 9: A former GOP representative argued
Friday that if President Donald Trump were a Democrat, there would be more
backlash from Republicans over the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
“If Hillary Clinton had won and Comey had re-opened an investigation into her
email server and she didn’t like the way it was going and she fired him, I’m
quite certain my party would be rightly howling,” Bob Inglis, a former South
Carolina representative, told CNN’s Erin Burnett Friday on “OutFront.” “When the
shoe’s on this foot, it’s like, ‘Oh, well, he’s new at it.'”
https://gantdaily.com/2017/06/09/former-congressman-calls-out-fellow-republicans-for-defending-trump/
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July 17: Trump Rating Holds Steady Despite
Campaign’s 2016 Russia Meeting ... 4-in-10 support
impeachment, higher than for Nixon at start of Watergate
The president's job rating currently stands at a net negative 39% approve and
52% disapprove. This is nearly identical to his 39%-53% rating in May. About
one-third (32%) of the public says Pres. Trump's agenda so far has focused a lot
on issues that are important to average Americans, another 31% say he has
focused a little on these issues and 35% say he has not focused at all on issues
important to average Americans. These results are largely unchanged from two
months ago.
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_NJ_071717/
August 25:
A familiar route to impeachment ... Donald Trump
certainly is no Richard Nixon, but his strategy to avoid possible
impeachment is beginning to look more and more like the one that failed to
avoid Nixon's ouster
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0202-witcover-impeach-20180131-story.html
October 9: Bannon will
back primary challenges against EVERY Republican running for Senate re-election
next year except Cruz - as Trump's former strategist hatches plan to boot
McConnell from majority leader job
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4963070/Bannon-Senate-primary-challengers.html
October 16: Top White House aides,
lawmakers, donors and political consultants are privately asking whether
President Donald Trump realizes that losing the House next year could put his
presidency in peril ... [a] GOP congressional aide predicted the Democrats would
make Trump's life a "living hell."
"Won't it be ironic that Steve Bannon helped get the President elected and
impeached?" another top Republican official said in a moment of venting.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/democrats-house-midterm-elections/index.html
October 22: Some Presidential Lies Are
Impeachable Offenses
Will Trump’s statements on Russia come back to haunt him?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/some-presidential-lies-are-impeachable-offenses/573421/
November 5: House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) says if Democrats retake the House of Representatives in 2018,
they should focus on unifying the country, not impeaching President Trump.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/pelosi-on-impeaching-trump-not-somewhere-we-should-go/html_8eba0ec5-10ac-554a-98d0-5c8e68073ddc.html
November 15: A half-dozen Democrats on
Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump,
accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses, in a long-shot effort
that stands little chance in the Republican-led House.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-democrats-introduce-impeachment-articles-against-trump-n821156
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November 30: The case for normalizing
impeachment ... Impeaching an unfit president has consequences. But leaving one
in office could be worse.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/30/16517022/impeachment-donald-trump
December 1: Cities Across the U.S. Join
Movement to Impeach President Trump for Violating the Constitution ...
In November, a half-dozen Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against
Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses. This comes as
a petition for impeachment launched in October by Democratic donor Tom Steyer
now has more than 3 million supporters. At least 17 communities around the
country are now on record calling for impeachment proceedings against Trump. On
Tuesday, the town of Weston, Massachusetts, joined the list when residents
supported a citizen petition asking the House to assess whether Trump is
violating the Constitution.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/1/cities_across_the_us_join_movement
December 3: The Odds of Impeachment Are
Dropping ... Despite Robert Mueller’s damaging disclosures, Republican voters
offer Trump unwavering support.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/trump-impeachment/547358/
December 6: House Votes Down Trump
Impeachment Resolution ... But 58 Democrats voted for impeachment.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-impeachment-donald-trump_us_5a28616be4b03ece02ffedd1
December 20:
Poll: 41 percent support Trump impeachment hearings
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-41-percent-support-trump-impeachment-hearings/article/2644000
December 29: While the odds that Mueller
will recommend impeachment charges have greatly increased, removal by the Senate
remains a long shot.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-russia-year-review-20171229-story.html
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January 11: Meet the billionaire businessman
obsessed with impeaching Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/meet-the-billionaire-businessman-obsessed-with-impeaching-trump.html
January 16: Why Trump continues to dodge
impeachment
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-trump-continues-to-dodge-impeachment/article37607836/
January 19: Two things can tell you if Trump
will be impeached in 2018: the midterms and Mueller ... It is an issue that has
dogged Donald Trump’s presidency almost since the beginning, but a number of
things will have to come to pass for impeachment to happen during his second
year
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-impeachment-mueller-russia-investigation-elections-midterms-democrats-a8168421.html
January 20: Donald Trump's FINAL days in
White House as US President 'faces axe before end of 2018'
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/675522/Donald-Trump-Impeachment-US-President-Russia-Mueller-Allan-Lichtman-White-House-Twitter
January 28: The
first
article of impeachment against Richard Nixon argued that he had “prevented,
obstructed and impeded the administration of justice.” One of the two
impeachment articles that the House passed against Bill Clinton used
that identical phrase. In both cases, the article then laid out the evidence
with a numbered list. Nixon’s version had nine items. Clinton’s had seven. Each
list was meant to show that the president had intentionally tried to subvert a
federal investigation.
... The evidence is now quite strong that Donald Trump committed obstruction of
justice. Many legal scholars believe a sitting president cannot be charged with
a crime. So the proper remedy for a president credibly accused of obstructing
justice is impeachment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/impeachment-donald-trump.html
January 29: How the President Can Be
Prosecuted as a Criminal
http://time.com/5123598/president-trump-impeach-criminal-constitution/
January 31: Mueller’s Endgame ... How he can
ensure that Congress sees any case against Donald Trump.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/how-robert-mueller-can-ensure-congress-sees-any-case-against-donald-trump.html?via=recirc_engaged
February 1: Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: The
Democrats Are Losing Ground in Midterm Polls, But …
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/trump-impeachment-chances-generic-ballot-tightening-edition.html
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February 1: Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC) are proving central to efforts to impeach
President Trump.
“I don’t know if the people around the country understand that he has launched …
an assault against African-American people starting with his refusal to accept
the first African-American president, by continuing to declare that he was from
Kenya,” Cleaver [Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)] said. “No other president in
history has had to face that kind of criticism.
“We’ve come to conclude that this is a part of his belief system.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371743-black-dems-take-lead-in-push-to-impeach-trump
February 1: Why Senate Republicans might
just impeach Trump
http://theweek.com/articles/752058/why-senate-republicans-might-just-impeach-trump
May 22: ... Trump has chalked up two more
reasons to impeach him (or some kind of reckoning): abusing his office by
ordering an investigation of the FBI’s investigation into whether his 2016
campaign conspired with Russia, and attempting to punish a specific individual
by damaging that person’s business.
https://newrepublic.com/article/148499/number-trumps-impeachable-offenses-keeps-growing
June 4: Trump and Giuliani Accidentally Make
the Case for Impeachment
By invoking the specter of a self-pardon, the president and his defenders are
implicitly suggesting that only Congress can constrain an executive's lawless
behavior.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/can-the-president-actually-pardon-himself/561923/
September 6: President Donald Trump told
supporters Thursday that if he is impeached "it's your fault 'cause you didn't
go out to vote."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/trump-impeach-your-fault/index.html
October 18: Former Vice President Joe Biden
on Thursday said he hopes Democrats don't try to impeach President Donald Trump
if they retake the House of Representatives following next month's midterm
elections.
"I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now,"
Biden, one of the top Democrats believed to be weighing a 2020 challenge of
Trump, said during an interview on "CBS This Morning."
The former vice president said Democrats should wait until special counsel
Robert Mueller's Russia probe is concluded before taking any steps against the
president.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/biden-impeach-trump-912230
November 29:
Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work
Generally, federal employees have been free to express opinions about
policies and legislative activity at work as long as they do not advocate voting
for or against particular candidates in partisan elections. But in a guidance
document distributed on Wednesday, the independent agency that enforces the
Hatch Act, a law that bars federal employees from taking part in partisan
political campaigns at work or in an official capacity, warned that making or
displaying statements at work about impeaching or resisting Mr. Trump is likely
to amount to illegal political activity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/federal-employees-hatch-act-trump-impeachment.html
December 6: Some experts believe Trump can
be impeached for conduct performed before becoming president
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/some-experts-believe-trump-can-be-impeached-for-conduct-performed-before-becoming-president
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April 18:
The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral
The special counsel has concluded he can neither charge nor clear the president.
Only Congress can now resolve the allegations against him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/mueller-report-impeachment-referral/587509/
Undated:
Mueller report in full
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_Report
April 18:
Read Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia
Report
The details the special counsel apparently found most important for the public
to know
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/mueller-report-release-summaries-barr-trump/587182/
May 19:
GOP Rep. Amash becomes first Republican to say Trump 'engaged in
impeachable conduct'
Michigan GOP Rep.
Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed
"impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally
misleading the public.
Amash's comments recommending Congress pursue obstruction of justice charges
against Trump were the first instance of a sitting Republican in Congress saying
the President's conduct meets the "threshold for impeachment."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/politics/justin-amash-trump-impeachable-conduct/index.html
May 19:
House Democrats’ Mueller report dilemma: To impeach or not?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/19/house-democrats-mueller-report-dilemma-impeach-or-not/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8e5cc655b147
May 20:
Republicans Are Denouncing Justin Amash’s Call to
Impeach Trump. He’s Not Backing Down.
The Michigan congressman already faces a new primary challenger.
Since he made the bold statement, the president has already labelled Amash a
“loser,” and the congressman’s judgement has been dismissed by top Republicans
eager to undercut the importance of his announcement.
“This is exactly what he wants, he wants to have attention,” House Minority
Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy told Fox News. He also claimed that Amash’s
libertarian-leaning, conservative voting
record was more
aligned with Nancy Pelosi’s agenda than that of the Republican party.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/justin-amash-impeach-trump/
September 17:
Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for
first time
House Judiciary chairman describes efforts to curtail testimonies 'an absolute
cover-up by the White House'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-hearing-corey-lewandowski-russia-us-election-a9109316.html
November 12: The 2 quid pro quos at the
heart of the impeachment inquiry
Here’s the timeline of what Trump officials asked the Ukrainians for.
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/12/20954985/impeachment-trump-quid-pro-quo
November 13: Trump impeachment hearings:
Schedule
https://nypost.com/2019/11/13/trump-impeachment-hearings-schedule-whos-testifying-what-to-know/
November 14:
Witnesses in the Trump
impeachment inquiry
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-witnesses-factb/witnesses-in-the-trump-impeachment-inquiry-idUSKBN1XO2UN
November 21:
Quid pro quo: Latin phrase dominates US impeachment
process
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/1121/1094214-quid-pro-quo/
November 21:
Impeachment Hearings Wrap As Fiona Hill Slams
GOP's 'Fictional' Ukraine Account
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/778657384/what-to-watch-for-in-impeachment-hearing-with-fiona-hill-david-holmes
November 22:
Testimony and Evidence Collected
in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/us/politics/president-trump-impeachment-inquiry.html
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