Will the impeachment inquiry eventually broaden to include some of the lowlights of this president’s low behavior?
Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler have some tough decisions to make. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Now that Nancy Pelosi has set House Democrats firmly and irreversibly on the road to impeaching Donald Trump, she and they must make the fateful decision about which examples of misconduct to prosecute. As Lawfare observes today, Trump’s behavior “presents what the military calls a target-rich environment.
“Articles” means “articles of impeachment,” presumably the endgame for House Democrats at this point. So perhaps Pelosi wants to begin with hearings focused on Ukraine, see how it goes, and then consider broadening the scope of impeachment articles before taking the final leap. Nobody really knows at this point.
[I]t is critically important to be disciplined at this juncture—to base articles of impeachment only on that activity which is not merely a plausible basis for removal but is unambiguously justified as a basis for removal. That means that anything that is a matter of policy—no matter how much one might disagree with the policy or how abhorrent one might find it—should not be included.
That doesn’t mean the “crisp and clear” approach requires a narrow scope: Lawfare recommends four major areas of inquiry beyond the Ukraine scandal: obstruction of justice ; use of law-enforcement resources to attack or punish political opponents; obstruction of lawful congressional investigations and oversight; and, my personal favorite, Trump’s habit of lying:
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