"I don't think you should impeach for political reasons, and I don't think you should not impeach for political reasons," Pelosi said.
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"I don't think you should impeach for political reasons, and I don't think you should not impeach for political reasons," Pelosi said at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit.
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A majority of House members would have to vote to impeach for the proceedings to move to the Senate.
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Giuliani and Trump are betting that the public won't care, and Congress won't impeach for these potential violations, while Cohen remains in the fold.
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The House holds the "sole power of impeachment" under the Constitution, and can impeach for essentially any matter it sees fit and can obtain a majority vote.
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The Supreme Court should step in and rule this impeachment unconstitutional, to prevent a precedent from forming which would allow the House to overstep its bounds and impeach for policy differences or political leverage.
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In the end, impeachment is political, not legal, and the House G.O.P. probably won't impeach for anything short of a transcript of a call between Trump and Putin in which the words "yes, I want you to hack their servers big-league, Vladimir" appear in black-and-white.
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The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee proceeded with something else in mind, something they didn't talk about out loud: that they needed to prepare not only for the full House vote on impeachment, but also, if the House did vote to impeach, for the Senate trial that would follow.
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"The fact is, you don't have to wait until you can identify all the felonies a president has committed in order to impeach for all the felonies that are on the record," the California Democrat said on "The Lead," claiming that Trump's threats to Mueller and treatment of fired FBI Director James Comey met the standards.
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Dennis was a staunch defender of President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Dennis was in the minority voting to oppose impeachment of the president in 1974. However, when the "smoking gun" tape was released, Dennis said he would vote to impeach for obstruction of justice, as did all nine Republicans on the committee who had previously opposed impeachment. Dennis said that Nixon "destroyed his credibility" by withholding the tape for so long.
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