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    Democrats’ Move to Manipulate Senate Impeachment Trial Breaks Norms

    President Donald Trump says White House counsel Pat Cipollone will lead his defense team in the Senate impeachment trial, but House Democrats’ tactics mean it still isn’t clear when that trial will begin.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced late Thursday afternoon that no more House votes will be taken until after Jan. 7.  That…
    Fred Lucas
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    Pelosi Evasive on Strategy for Impeachment Trial in Senate

    After weeks of pronouncing impeachment was a “solemn” and “prayerful” occasion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a different tone a day after two near-party line votes aimed at ousting President Donald Trump.  “It really is interesting to see the response we are getting, bipartisan, across party lines,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday. “I myself want…
    Fred Lucas
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    Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Explains Why She Voted ‘Present’ on Impeachment

    Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, explained Thursday how a “deep love of country” motivated her to vote “present” on both articles of impeachment the night before. Gabbard was the sole Democrat to vote “present” on impeaching President Donald Trump, causing a stir among media and fellow lawmakers. She explained the decision on The Hill’s “Rising With Krystal Ball…
    Shelby Talcott
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    What’s Next in the Impeachment Process

    Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the House’s impeachment process, and what’s next in the Senate. Read a lightly edited transcript, posted below, or listen to the podcast: Jarrett Stepman: The big news of the day is, of course, impeachment. If all reports are correct, then by the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Here’s How Much the Formal Impeachment Inquiry Has Cost Taxpayers So Far

    House Democrats spent at least $3 million of taxpayers’ money in under three months pursuing the impeachment of President Donald Trump, counting the cost of lawyers and staff time spent readying for hearings, according to Heritage Foundation research.   The $3.06 million price tag for taxpayers of the formal impeachment inquiry so far includes the salaries…
    Fred Lucas
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    Washington Post Concedes That Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased

    “The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.” So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, in an op-ed published last week in The Washington Post. In fact, Pianta asserts, government spending on K-12 education actually has declined since the 1980s. These claims are inaccurate,…
    Lindsey Burke
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    On Eve of Impeachment Vote, Trump Punches Back Against Pelosi

    One day before the Democrat-led House is set to vote on impeachment, President Donald Trump sent a scathing six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asserting the House majority was “declaring open war on American Democracy.” “You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme — yet your spiteful actions…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Impeachment Would Mean a Senate Trial. Here’s How That Would Work.

    The vote by the House Judiciary Committee Friday to adopt two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump makes it clear that Democrats are moving full speed ahead on the road to impeachment—regardless of the merits of their accusations or the integrity of their process. But speeding down this road looks like it will be dangerous for…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Warns of ‘Trivializing’ Impeachment as House Panel OKs Abuse and Obstruction Charges

    The House Judiciary Committee voted Friday morning along party lines to impeach President Donald Trump, sending two charges to the House floor for what is expected to be another party-line vote next week to set up a Senate trial in January. Now attention turns to the 31 House Democrats who were elected last year in…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘People Want Justice’: Rep. Jody Hice Talks IG Report and Impeachment

    “One of the biggest questions I have back home in the 10th District of Georgia is, ‘When are heads going to roll over all this corruption?’” says Rep. Jody Hice, a Republican. “People want justice.” Hice joins the podcast to discuss the new report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz. He also…
    Daniel Davis
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    Clinton Prosecutor Sees Weak Impeachment Case Against Trump

    House Democrats, legal analysts, and pundits suggested in recent weeks that President Donald Trump committed various impeachable crimes in his July phone call to Ukraine’s president. But on Tuesday, the charge House Democrats came up with was a broad “abuse of power” claim, alleging that Trump solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election.  The second…
    Fred Lucas
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    Speeding Toward Impeachment in the Absence of Facts

    The Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump boils down to this: the accusation that he solicited, demanded, perhaps even coerced a foreign government to help him get reelected. Such behavior, they contend, constitutes an impeachable offense. The most important task for the Senate when it conducts a trial on that article of impeachment is to determine…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Impeachment Charade, Faculty Lounge Edition

    Another chapter in the House impeachment melodrama unfolded this week. The proceedings shifted from Adam Schiff’s Intelligence Committee to the Judiciary Committee, which is run by another Democratic member of Congress, Jerry Nadler of New York. Last month, Schiff’s failed approach was to bring down the president by bringing in a whole cavalcade of intelligence…
    Tucker Carlson
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    Impeachment Witnesses Have Failed to Prove Trump Guilty

    As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., passed the impeachment inquiry baton to the Judiciary Committee this week, he said the central allegation against President Donald Trump is that the president “solicited foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election.” This accusation will likely be the heart of any articles of impeachment the Judiciary Committee produces against the president….
    Thomas Jipping
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    Liberal Law Professors at Hearing Fail to Make Case for Impeachment

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler opened Wednesday’s impeachment hearing with testimony from three left-wing law professors who consider President Donald Trump to be evil incarnate. If Nadler thought this display would somehow convince the public that the president’s actions merit impeachment, he is sure to be disappointed. The three professors simply failed to make the case. Nadler’s witnesses…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    6 Big Moments From Day 1 of the Second Round of Impeachment Hearings

    The House Judiciary Committee, holding its first day of impeachment hearings Wednesday, heard from four legal scholars on the case for and against removing President Donald Trump from office less than a year before a presidential election.  After five days of public hearings over two weeks, the House Intelligence Committee submitted its report—contested by the…
    Fred Lucas
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    House GOP Report Contends Impeachment Drive Advances Rule by Bureaucrats

    The Republican response to House Democrats’ impeachment case asserts that “evidence does not establish” that President Donald Trump used U.S. military aid for personal political ends, while arguing that the findings amount to a policy disagreement in which unelected bureaucrats seek a final say over an elected president.  “In our system of government, power resides…
    Fred Lucas
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    Impeachment Crusade Is Bound to Backfire on the Left

    As the impeachment season drones on, and Democrats continue down the path of self-destruction, one wonders if there is an exit ramp for them. Before Donald Trump was even the Republican nominee for president, people in positions of power started their malevolent acts against him and his campaign, mostly in private. Democrats and the left…
    Rep. Andy Biggs
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    We Hear You: House Democrats Make Impeachment a ‘Third-Rate Circus’

    Editor's note: House Democrats' drive to impeach President Donald Trump sparks some strong sentiments from The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Katrina Trinko’s podcast interview with Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky on House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, and found it to be very enlightening (“Impeachment Evidence…
    Ken McIntyre
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