The following article by J.M Rieger was posted on the Washington Post website May 4, 2018:
According to Congress, a president can obstruct justice. Just as long as that president is a member of the opposite political party. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
On April 27, 1998, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) laid out what would soon become one of the four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
“What you have lived through, for two-and-a-half long years, is the most systematic, deliberate obstruction of justice, coverup and effort to avoid the truth, we have ever seen in American history,” he said. Continue reading “Then and now: How Congress reacted to impeachment threats against Presidents Clinton and Trump”