JUST IN: House Democrats subpoena Energy Sec. Rick Perry for Ukraine documents as part of intensifying impeachment probe.
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump faced off over the Democrats’ impeachment effort -- creating a potential constitutional crisis -- Pelosi's next move remained unclear on Wednesday as the White House and congressional Republicans demanded a full House vote on approving a formal inquiry.
Instead, they point to the two most-recent impeachment investigations, where the House of Representatives voted as a body to proceed to scrutinize Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Nixon resigned before the House could vote on articles of impeachment, but the House did take a vote on Feb. 6, 1974, on a resolution"providing appropriate power to the Committee on the Judiciary to conduct an investigation of whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States."
The dynamics at play with the current impeachment process are unprecedented, as no president has been impeached by a divided Congress. Democrats hold the House majority, but Trump and Republicans enjoy a firewall in the Senate, where a two-thirds majority is required to convict anyone impeached in the lower chamber.
On Tuesday, House General Counsel Doug Letter told the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that Pelosi's inquiry extends beyond the Ukraine affair, including elements of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and conceded"another possible impeachment count is obstruction of Congress."
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