Get serious about impeachment
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 02:26:09 PM Ben Clements
Edited by: Brianna Bell
The Mueller Report describes a damning pattern of encouraging illegal foreign interference in the 2016 election ... Trump’s ongoing obstruction and defiance of all congressional oversight investigations — including an apparent policy to fight every subpoena — is itself part of this pattern ...
Quite apart from the Mueller report, Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in another criminal effort to influence the 2016 election. Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to federal crimes for making illegal hush-money payments to influence the 2016 election ... This conduct warrants impeachment not just to protect the country from further abuses during the remainder of Trump’s term, but to protect the 2020 election. If Trump was willing to go to these criminal lengths to influence the 2016 election as a private citizen, President Trump, with vastly more power available to him, will do even worse ...
... Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly pressured federal law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute political adversaries ... In a unanimous resolution passed last August, the U.S. Senate described Trump’s attacks on the press and stated that the Senate “condemns the attacks on the institution of the free press and views efforts to systematically undermine the credibility of the press as an attack on the democratic institutions of the United States.” If attacking the democratic institutions of the United States is not grounds for impeachment, it is hard to imagine what might be. Indeed, Congress has impeached three federal judges on charges categorized as “vindictive use of power,” and in 1974, the Judiciary Committee’s second article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon cited his “misuse of federal investigative agencies against political opponents.”
Trump’s escalating efforts to foment racial hostility, hatred and violence, likewise violate his constitutional duty to ensure the laws are faithfully executed and violate principles of equal protection and other constitutional rights. Trump is committing impeachable offenses when he urges government officials to violate the law, especially with violence; when he uses his position to sow racial hostility and encourage bigotry and violence; and when he enacts policies that have no constitutionally-legitimate justification but are rather motivated entirely by bigotry ...
Yet another hallmark of the Trump presidency is his misuse of position for self-enrichment ...
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/09/ben-clements-ron-fein-months-after/
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