The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 21, 2019, 08:41:01 pm
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:31 PM
More Democrats are calling — and more loudly — for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former White House lawyer from testifying on Tuesday.
A growing number of rank-and-file House Democrats, incensed by former Counsel Don McGahn's empty chair in the Judiciary Committee hearing room, are confronting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and pushing her and other leaders to act. Their impatience is running up against the speaker's preference for a more methodical approach , including already-unfolding court battles.
Pelosi summoned some of them — still a small fraction of the House Democratic caucus — to a meeting of investigators Wednesday to assess strategy.
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https://www.newsmax.com/headline/impeachment-calls-grow-mcgahn/2019/05/21/id/917003/ (https://www.newsmax.com/headline/impeachment-calls-grow-mcgahn/2019/05/21/id/917003/)