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Rep. Jerry Nadler Says House Will Likely Subpoena John Bolton

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., says the House expects to continue its investigations into President Trump’s conduct, even after Wednesday’s expected acquittal of Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

Speaking with reporters, Nadler says the House “will likely” subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton had said he would comply with a Senate subpoena during the impeachment trial, but the Senate voted against calling witnesses. According to published reports, Bolton, in a book manuscript, describes being told by the president that he was withholding aid to Ukraine until the Ukrainian government began an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Nadler did not have a timeline for when Bolton would be subpoenaed but noted that a subpoena could come from the Judiciary or other investigative committees. Continue reading.

‘I am not yielding’: Watch Rep. Pramila Jayapal shut down Jim Jordan’s attempt to hijack impeachment hearing

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stood her ground at an impeachment hearing on Thursday after Republicans tried to derail her arguments in favor of removing President Donald Trump.

Jayapal began her remarks by pointing out that Florida Republican Matt Gaetz was wrong to suggest that President Donald Trump was invested in Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

“Why then did he decide he was so concerned about ‘corruption’ that he was not going to release military aid?” Jayapal said, prompting Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio to demand that she yield the floor.

Partisan battles erupt as Judiciary begins final phase of impeachment

Jerry Nadler told Republicans to “please keep in mind that — one way or the other — President Trump will not be president forever.”

The House Judiciary Committee began formal consideration of two impeachment articles against President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, a four-plus-hour partisan slugfest that changed few minds but yielded dozens of political attack lines that will be repeated endlessly in coming weeks.

Republicans blasted the process as unworthy of the storied Judiciary panel. They accused Democrats of a “political hit job,” “a rigged process” and a “naked partisan exercise” designed to remove a president whom they always opposed.

But Democrats hit back hard, calling Trump “the smoking gun” who engaged in a “constitutional crime spree.” And they said the quick pace of the impeachment proceedings is critical because of the “clear and present danger” Trump poses to the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Gohmert Rebuked For Smear Of Judiciary Committee Counsel

Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee continually interrupted Monday’s impeachment hearing with yelling and accusations, including one outburst from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) that earned him a reprimand from the committee chair.

Gohmert interrupted the hearing to accuse Barry Berke, Democrats’ counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, of essentially buying his position.

“How much money do you have to give to be able to do that?” Gohmert sarcastically asked, referring to Berke’s ability to ask questions at Monday’s hearing.

Judiciary fireworks: GOP accuses Democratic counsel of impugning Trump’s motives

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee accused a Democratic counsel offering impeachment evidence of impugning the motives of President Trump, the latest round of fireworks in a testy and contentious hearing.

The Judiciary hearing began to go off the rails almost immediately after it began as GOP members began making points of order demanding a minority hearing.

A little more than an hour into the hearing, Republicans expressed outrage at Democratic counsel Barry Berke’s evidence, as Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) accused him of impugning Trump.

Nadler: Trump showed ‘pattern’ that poses ‘danger’ to elections

The House Judiciary chairman says Trump acted against his country’s interests.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that President Donald Trump has shown “a pattern” of seeking foreign interference in U.S. elections but stopped short of saying that obstruction charges would be included in articles of impeachment.

“The central allegation is that the president put himself above his country several times, that he sought foreign interference in our elections several times, both for 2016 and 2020,” Nadler said on “State of the Union“ on CNN. “All this presents a pattern that poses a real and present danger to the integrity of the next election.”

Pressed by host Dana Bash on whether charges related to 2016 would be included in articles of impeachment, Nadler demurred.

Judiciary Committee Report Offers Legal Rationale for Impeaching Trump

The report, which echoes one released in 1974 as the House debated impeaching President Richard M. Nixon, comes two days before the committee will formally receive the evidence against President Trump.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats released a report on Saturdayintended to lay out the legal and historical underpinnings of their case for impeaching President Trump while also countering Republican accusations that the investigation of the president’s conduct in office has been unfair and illegitimate.

Democrats have accused the president of abusing his power by trying to pressure the Ukrainian government to announce investigations into his political rivals. They also claim that Mr. Trump obstructed the congressional inquiry by blocking witnesses from testifying and refusing to provide documents.

The 52-page report by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee argues that the framers of the Constitution intentionally provided a way to remove the occupant of the Oval Office for just such misconduct.

More Than 500 Legal Scholars Call For Trump’s Impeachment

At a public House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, three accomplished legal scholars offered extensive testimony explaining why they believe President Donald Trump should be impeached: Prof. Pamela Karlan of Stanford University, Prof. Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School and Prof. Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina Law School. But the three of them are by no means the only legal scholars calling for Trump’s impeachment, and at least 520 legal scholars — as of Friday afternoon — had signed a pro-impeachment open letter.

The letter goes into detail on specific testimony from the House Intelligence Committee’s recent impeachment hearings — and that testimony, the legal scholars assert, makes a solid case for impeaching Trump.

“William B. Taylor, who leads the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, testified that President Trump directed the withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine in its struggle against Russia — aid that Congress determined to be in the U.S. national security interest — until Ukraine announced investigations that would aid the president’s re-election campaign,” the letter states. “Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that the president made a White House visit for the Ukrainian president conditional on public announcement of those investigations.”

Democrats consider bribery, obstruction for impeachment articles against Trump

House Democrats are considering articles of impeachment against President Trump that include obstruction and bribery but are unlikely to pursue a treason charge as they weigh how to illustrate that the president’s activities involving Ukraine were part of what they see as a pattern of misconduct, according to congressional aides.

Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee and Intelligence Committee, which this week released a report of their findings from a two-month-long impeachment investigation, have said that they believe Trump’s actions vis-a-vis Ukraine meet the definition of bribery, one of the crimes the Constitution identifies specifically as an impeachable offense.

Central to the Intelligence Committee’s findings is that Trump compromised U.S. national security when he held back diplomatic engagement and congressionally approved military aid from Kyiv, until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky committed to publicly announce he was launching investigations into a debunked conspiracy theory surrounding a hacked Democratic National Committee server and of the son of former vice president Joe Biden, who is running to replace Trump in 2020.

GOP Expert Mistaken On Basic Impeachment Fact

A law professor Republicans called to testify at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing got a basic fact wrong in trying to defend Donald Trump from impeachment, incorrectly saying that Democrats are running the fastest impeachment process in history.

“That’s the problem when you move towards impeachment on this abbreviated schedule that has not been explained to me why you want to set the record for the fastest impeachment,” Turley said. “Fast is not good for impeachment.”

That accusation is simply false.

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Jerry Nadler told Republicans to “please keep in mind that — one way or the other — President Trump will not be president forever.”

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The House Judiciary chairman says Trump acted against his country’s interests.

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The report, which echoes one released in 1974 as the House debated impeaching President Richard M. Nixon, comes two days before the committee will formally receive the evidence against President Trump.

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