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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @02:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @02:57AM (#914925)

    perjury is a crime in a criminal case. certainly lying to Congress by not-the-President can incur jail time (just ask Oliver North), the President is a bit of a special case, but for that Congress makes the charges and the Dept of Justice prosecutes the case in Federal Court.
    let's stop trying to conflate the impeachment process with anything else.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:40PM (#915909)

    No. Mueller has said exactly the opposite: The President's special case is that he cannot be indicted while sitting in office for obstruction. Same applies in Perjury (EXCEPT that herein there has been no judiciary claim on Donald Trump personally for Trump to perjure for). This isn't perjury, it's an FEC violation coupled with Conduct Unbecoming, maybe. This is what impeachment is for: It is the indictment that the Executive cannot seek and the Judiciary cannot try (except as the Chief Justice sites as the Presiding Official of a Senate trial.) And it is important to pursue it now because the President is doing damage to the Nation with his conduct. We cannot wait until he is no longer in office.

    That's the gist, anyway, AC.