impeachment and voters
Impeachment Inquiry Becomes Reality TV
To respond to your editorial statement that this should “all be left to the judgment of American voters in 2020”: Voters don’t have subpoena powers or the power to compel true testimony on pain of perjury. Only Congress conducting an impeachment inquiry has the tools to expose wrongdoing.
While the public record so far may not establish a definite case for impeachment, neither did the public record at the start of the Richard Nixon impeachment inquiry. Had Nixon faced another election, could voters have properly judged him without the “smoking gun tape” the inquiry unearthed?
To respond to your editorial statement that this should “all be left to the judgment of American voters in 2020”: Voters don’t have subpoena powers or the power to compel true testimony on pain of perjury. Only Congress conducting an impeachment inquiry has the tools to expose wrongdoing.
While the public record so far may not establish a definite case for impeachment, neither did the public record at the start of the Richard Nixon impeachment inquiry. Had Nixon faced another election, could voters have properly judged him without the “smoking gun tape” the inquiry unearthed?