Manchin calls second Trump impeachment bid ‘ill-advised’: ‘Let the judicial system do its job’

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Charles Creitz

House Democrats' attempt to impeach President Trump for a second time in connection with last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol is "so ill-advised," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. told "Special Report" Monday.

Eliminating Trump from being elected again one motivator in impeachment push, Pelosi says

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Edmund DeMarche

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night that one of the motivating factors for some in the new effort to impeach President Trump and remove him from office is to eliminate any chance that he has of being elected president in four years.

Pelosi says lawmakers moving forward with impeachment, calls Trump ‘imminent threat’ to ‘our Democracy’

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Bradford Betz

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said the House will be moving forward with a resolution to impeach Donald Trump, whom she referred to in a letter to her colleagues as an “imminent threat” to both the U.S. Constitution and Democracy.

Dershowitz calls Trump impeachment a ‘loaded weapon’ that would be ‘so dangerous to the Constitution’

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Ronn Blitzer

Harvard Law professor emeritus and constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz said that while he does not believe it would result in a Senate trial, impeaching President Trump over what he said in an address prior to protesters storming the Capitol building on Wednesday would provide a "loaded weapon" to both parties to use at their will in the future.

Calls to impeach Trump gain momentum, Republicans ask Biden to intervene

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Caitlin McFall

Congressional calls for the impeachment of President Trump are gaining traction on both sides of the aisle, as lawmakers announced Saturday that impeachment would be introduced in the House Monday.

House Dem apologizing for comparing new Trump impeachment to a ‘lynching’

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Marisa Schultz

An Oregon Democrat is apologizing for likening a second impeachment of President Trump to a "lynching."

Article of impeachment against Trump to be introduced Monday in House

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Morgan Phillips

The House has reached 185 co-sponsors for an article of impeachment against President Trump, and the chamber plans introduce the measure Monday, the office of Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., told Fox News Saturday.

Rep. Adam Schiff says Trump must go, backs second impeachment

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Vandana Rambaran

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff joined a growing list of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for President Trump's removal.

White House says impeachment would further divide the country

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Sam Dorman

The White House is warning that if Democrats proceed with impeaching President Trump, it would divide the country at a time that should be reserved for healing.

Biden says Trump’s ‘not fit to serve’ as president but punts on calls for impeachment

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Paul Steinhauser

President-elect Biden on Friday charged that President Trump “isn’t fit to hold the job.” But the president-elect refused to say whether he supported the push by congressional Democrats and handful of Republicans to immediately remove Trump from office either by impeachment or through the use of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.