John -
Yesterday, the House officially began public impeachment hearings against a president for only the fourth time in American history. This is a momentous step, and one that is warranted, many times over, by President Trump’s serious abuse of power.
It is time for every House member to listen to the witnesses, consider the evidence and independently determine whether President Trump’s behavior warrants impeachment.
Read my New York Times op-ed for more about President Trump’s abuses of power and what we learned in yesterday’s hearings.
Over the course of the last six weeks, witnesses have provided revelatory and damaging testimony and more and more evidence has emerged of President Trump’s wrongdoing. The transcript of the July 25th call was shocking, and warranted an impeachment inquiry on its own. As the inquiry has proceeded, nearly every additional piece of evidence has been even more damaging to the president, and made the inquiry and hearings even more urgent. Based on yesterday’s testimony, we can expect that the public hearings will continue to bring to light new and devastating facts.
Several times over the last few months, I’ve noted that we’re at a truly perilous time for our democracy, and that none of us knows exactly what these coming weeks will bring. That is more true than ever before, but with the beginning of public hearings, the president is facing public accountability in a way he has not before. Impeachment should never be taken lightly, but starting the process in the case of extreme abuses of power means that our democracy is continuing to function, no matter how much the president has attempted to damage it in these last few years.
Thank you,
Noah Bookbinder
Executive Director, CREW
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