Nadler Makes It Clear House Is Already in 'Impeachment Proceedings'

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New York Intelligencer, August 9, 2019
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/nadler-house-already-in-impeachment-proceedings.html

Nadler Makes It Clear House Is Already in ‘Impeachment Proceedings’

Those who have carefully followed the slowly developing dance that House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler has been performing over demands for the “launching” of an “impeachment inquiry” or “proceedings” already knew where this was going, but Nadler’s movements are becoming less subtle. His position is now clearly that his committee is already “inquiring” into impeachment, and should it decide to adopt articles of impeachment, you could conclude that the “proceedings” began some time ago. CNN has the story:

The House Judiciary Committee is now engaged in a full-blown investigation and legal fight with the goal of deciding whether to recommend articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump by the end of the year, according to Democratic officials involved in the effort …

As additional House Democrats continue to call for the House Judiciary Committee to launch an impeachment inquiry — which more than half the caucus now supports — Democratic sources say the issue is essentially moot since what the panel is doing is basically that: investigating whether Trump should be impeached.

(snip) It also seems pretty obvious that Nadler’s shift toward calling what he’s already been doing “impeachment proceedings” has been quietly approved by his boss, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who until recently was publicly adamant in opposing any step down that path.

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1. Heard it last week also, but little mentioned here has been fine with me.

I noticed O'Donnell said Nadler told him "This is it. This is the impeachment process. It's underway." He said Nadler clarified that there is no bright line procedurally in the house judiciary committee that says "okay, today is an impeachment process and yesterday wasn't."

It's on when they say it's on, and he said it.

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2. K&R