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Building the best Third Impeachment Bill: It's a Charm! However, it's not yet really 'in the cards'. [1]
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Date: 2025-05-04
We are “a long way from success in impeachment and removal,” because it’s really early to hydrate that powder. Recent polls indicate that a majority of U.S. voters support impeachment, reflecting concerns over Trump's actions during his current term.
The WSJ is now calling for Trump’s third impeachment, criticizing his disastrous trade war and ill-conceived tariffs. His chaotic policies have harmed the economy, and even conservative historians are calling them out as “neurotic.”
A… look at all the impeachment articles against presidents and figure out how many Trump has already matched or surpassed. We are “a long way from success in impeachment and removal,” Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky cautions, and says Democrats should be strategic about timing. Spoiler: It has not been fun. And the answer is pretty much all of them—from Andrew Johnson in 1868 to the charges in Trump’s own pair of impeachments a few short years ago. How do we know? Because it’s all unfolding publicly and blatantly in real time. Rep. Dan Goldman, a former House aide who was lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment, said on February 19 that Trump had already committed “dozens of impeachable offenses.” That was one month in. Just before Easter, as Trump approached the 100-day mark, Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky told me that “the systematic violation of the Constitution, the use of power openly for retribution, provide a basis for finding high crimes and misdemeanors.” “Openly” is key. There’s no hush-hush investigation necessary, and none of the drama that comes with a shocking revelation of wrongdoing. Instead we get floods of social media posts, illegal executive orders, and Trump talking, and talking, and talking. The cumulative effect is to normalize lawbreaking, government weaponization, and the politics of revenge, while the Republicans in charge avert their eyes and let everything slide. [...] Has Trump obstructed justice since taking office this year? It’s more like flouting justice and ignoring the courts. He and his team, including Elon Musk, have shut down investigations, slow-walked or withheld information, and ignored court orders, not least regarding deportations that have sent three children who are U.S. citizens to Honduras and roughly 175 Venezuelans with no criminal record to a nightmare Salvadoran prison, all without due process. www.thebulwark.com/... x Time to begin looking at a possible third impeachment for Trump if Dem retake House. Pretty clear the case is stronger now than it was for either of the other efforts to hold him accountable. nymag.com/intelligence...
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