Analysis: The case for and against impeachment
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow April 22 at 11:47 AM Democrats have a decision to make in the wake of the Mueller report: whether to consider impeaching President Trump over it.
As Democrats spend the next few weeks debating their course of action after last week’s release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report into Russian election interference, here are the arguments they are probably considering.No one expects Congress to impeach Trump. That would require a sizable number of Republicans to be on board with the idea, and very few have even criticized the president’s actions as outlined in the Mueller report, let alone said it merits his ouster.
Rep. Norma J. Torres told Politico that the Mueller report changed her mind about impeachment. She said she now “absolutely” believes that the president obstructed justice, which neatly fits the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” — the bar for impeachment. Impeachment may play well with the liberal base. But there’s plenty of evidence that the rest of the country may view impeachment as an overreach.
"He’s just not worth it,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told The Washington Post in March. Instead, she has urged her vulnerable Democrats to focus on “kitchen-table issues.” “Like a jackhammer: lower health-care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government,” she said recently.
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