Although the chamber's Judiciary Committee has not officially voted to initiate impeachment proceedings, Democrats continue to say that they are, 'in effect,' already in the midst of an inquiry.
Since embarking on a six-week August recess late last month, support for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump among House Democrats has grown to an all-time high, resulting in more than half of the caucus now supporting such a move.
In a new court filing Monday, the Judiciary Committee argued that its lawsuits to enforce subpoenas for the unredacted Mueller report and its underlying evidence and for former White House counsel Don McGahn's testimony should be overseen by the same federal judge because they need the evidence in order to determine the same question:"whether to recommend articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for potentially criminal obstruction conduct.
"This is formal impeachment proceedings. We are investigating all the evidence, gathering the evidence," Nadler told CNN last week."And we will [at the] conclusion of this — hopefully by the end of the year — vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won't. That's a decision that we'll have to make. But that's exactly the process we're in right now.
Republicans on the committee have highlighted the lack of a committee-passed resolution approving a probe into whether the panel should consider articles of impeachment, therefore arguing that Democrats' claims of ongoing impeachment inquiry is nullified.
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