Opinion: A top Democrat warns that if we don’t confront Trump, he’ll grow more lawless
Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks during a hearing on confronting white supremacy at the Capitol on May 15. By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 21 at 10:45 AM House Democrats are embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, an outcome that appears to be growing harder for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resist.
But in the meeting Pelosi pushed back, arguing that an inquiry would undercut multiple ongoing House investigations. One Democrat involved in the Monday debate was Rep. Jamie Raskin , a constitutional law professor. I spoke to him, and a transcript of our conversation, edited and condensed, follows:Rep. Jamie Raskin: I think that overwhelming evidence has been presented to us in the Mueller report, and outside of it too, of high crimes and misdemeanors, and we should launch an impeachment inquiry. Remember, an inquiry doesn’t prejudge the outcome. We’re not talking about articles of impeachment.
Plum Line: What’s your response to the argument that an impeachment effort would hamstring other committees? The purpose of investigations into matters covered by the special counsel report at this point should be to determine whether or not the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Mueller wrote of 11 different episodes of presidential obstruction. More than 900 former U.S. attorneys and federal prosecutors have said that anybody else in America would have been indicted and prosecuted for what the president did.
Plum Line: I take it you reject the idea that the last line of defense for the American people is elections.
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