To view this message in a browser:
[link removed]
Image:
To see the original, click here:
[link removed]
The survival of independent media is at stake.
Without your support
[link removed]
we won't exist.
o Facebook
[link removed]
o Twitter
[link removed]
o Forward to Friend
[link removed]
Sen. Joni Ernst Warns GOP Could Weaponize Impeachment 'Immediately' If
Democrat Wins White House
"For all that talk about 'overturning the will of the voter,' Senate GOP
seems pretty okay with impeaching a future president... as long as that
president is a Democrat."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst warned Sunday that the GOP could swiftly move
to weaponize the impeachment process if a Democrat wins the presidency
in 2020, proclaiming "this door of impeachable whatever has been
opened."
Specifically invoking former Vice President Joe Biden, Ernst told
Bloomberg News in an interview
[link removed]
that "we can have a situation where if it should ever be President
Biden, that immediately, people, right the day after he would be elected
would be saying, 'Well, we're going to impeach him.'"
The Iowa Republican, who has said
[link removed]
she plans to vote to acquit President Donald Trump this week, claimed
Biden could be impeached "for being assigned to take on Ukrainian
corruption yet turning a blind eye to Burisma because his son [Hunter
Biden] was on the board making over a million dollars a year."
Critics said Ernst's comments, which came on the eve of the Iowa
Democratic caucuses, lay bare the emptiness of GOP complaints that the
impeachment of Trump represents an effort to overturn the will of
voters.
"For all that talk about 'overturning the will of the voter,' Senate GOP
seems pretty okay with impeaching a future president... as long as that
president is a Democrat," tweeted
[link removed]
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in
the Democratic presidential primary.
"OK, so impeachment is only 'overturning the will of the voters' if a
Republican is elected. Got it," wrote
[link removed]
Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg.
We're going to "immediately" push to replace Joni Ernst:
[link removed]
[link removed]
.
[link removed]
[link removed]
-Indivisable Guide (@indivisableteam) February 3, 2020
[link removed]
In a separate interview Sunday on CNN 's "State of the Union," Ernst
defended Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his
Democratic political rivals while conceding that perhaps "he could have
done it through different channels."
Senate Republicans largely united late Friday in voting down a motion to
allow witnesses to testify in Trump's impeachment trial, a move
Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups decried
[link removed]
as an "abhorrent dereliction of duty." Every other Senate impeachment
trial in U.S. history has included witnesses, according to an analysis
[link removed]
released last week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW).
"This is a crisis of democracy," By the People executive director
Alexandra Flores-Quilty said following the Friday vote.
# # #
If you value this work and want to keep independent, progressive media
strong please join us. Make a tax-deductible donation
[link removed]
or consider becoming a sustaining member
[link removed]
today.
DONATE NOW
[link removed]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call 207.775.0488 to donate by phone or mail a check to:
Common Dreams, PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA | Unsubscribe
[link removed]
