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December 4, 2019

Andrew McCarthy: Impeaching Trump is a waste of time – No chance Senate will convict him

Impeachment is a historical rarity even when the House (where only a simple majority is needed to file articles of impeachment) is controlled by the president’s opposition party. Prudent lawmakers grasp that it is not merely a waste of time to pursue impeachment in futility. Doing so fosters divisiveness in society.

December 4, 2019

Democrats lay groundwork for including Mueller findings in impeachment articles

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee appeared to lay the groundwork Wednesday for including the findings from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

December 4, 2019

Martha MacCallum: Turley had a 'powerful moment' in his impeachment hearing testimony

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley had a "powerful moment" during the House Judiciary committee's impeachment hearings Tuesday when he said congressional Democrats will alienate half the country if they rush the process, said Marth MacCallum. 

December 4, 2019

Gingrich says it's 'almost a joke' for Dems to claim Trump committed impeachable offenses

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry has sunk so far below the Founding Fathers' standard of an impeachable offense that the process has devolved into a joke.

December 4, 2019

Andy McCarthy on new rhetoric shift from Dems: Abuse of power can be used to impeach any president

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said Wednesday that House Democrats' strategy in the second round of impeachment inquiry hearings to shift their rhetoric from accusing President Trump of bribery and extortion to a general abuse of power is working in their favor.

December 4, 2019

White House and GOP decry liberal backgrounds of legal scholars in impeachment hearing

The Trump administration and Republicans launched an all-out offensive on Wednesday against the legal scholars testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

December 4, 2019

Ed Rollins: Impeachment sham -- I've served 4 presidents and never seen such naked, self-serving partisanship

Don’t be fooled: Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s impeachment charade is exactly that. It’s incompatible with the long and esteemed history of the United States Congress.

December 4, 2019

Impeachment witness tells lawmakers to consider having to answer to Hamilton and Madison in the afterlife

Harvard Law Prof. Noah Feldman's testimony during Wednesday's impeachment hearing took a turn for the mystical Wednesday afternoon, when he seemed to claim that impeaching President Trump was necessary so that lawmakers would be able to answer to Alexander Hamilton and James Madison when they bump into them in the afterlife.

December 4, 2019

Impeachment witness snaps at Doug Collins during hearing, tells him she’s ‘insulted’ by comments

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., criticized Wednesday’s impeachment hearing during his opening statement by noting that it does not include any fact witnesses, just law professors who will likely only theorize about impeaching President Trump because they were likely too busy to digest all of the facts at issue.

December 4, 2019

Rep. Collins: Democrats don't have the facts to impeach President Trump

As phase two of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump kicks off under the purview of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee's Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., said Wednesday that House Democrats don't have the facts to back up impeachment.