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Title: Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeachment
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 22, 2019, 01:51:00 am

Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeachment
Fox News, May 21, 2019

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, claimed on Tuesday evening that "80-90 percent" of the fellow Democrats who sit on committee are ready to impeach President Trump.

Cohen, who made headlines recently for bringing Kentucky Fried Chicken to a hearing in an attempt to mock the absence of Attorney General William Barr, began by saying the Democrats who sit on the House Judiciary Committee "care most about justice" and "the rule of law."

"The Judiciary Committee, as a whole, is for at least an inquiry of impeachment," Cohen told MSNBC's Ari Melber. "There might have been two members who are particularly close to Speaker Pelosi that were not on-board, but I'd say most, I'd say 80-90 percent of the committee is on-board to go forward."

The congressman acknowledged that he couldn't speak on behalf of the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., but said of the Dems backing the push that "most of us are lawyers" and "we have the Constitution in our heart." He also admitted that the majority of his colleagues in the House of Representatives have not read the Mueller Report.

Cohen went on to express in anticipation to tomorrow's caucus meeting that it's "difficult" to question the positions of Speaker Pelosi, but added that it's also his duty to "speak truth to power."


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Title: Re: Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeach
Post by: Wingnut on May 22, 2019, 01:56:49 am

Push it real good. Push it

Title: Re: Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeach
Post by: Bill Cipher on May 22, 2019, 01:58:21 am

Go for it, guys. 

Title: Re: Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeach
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 22, 2019, 02:01:12 am

FTA

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The official said, despite Pelosi’s repeated attempt to quell talk of impeaching the president, she “isn’t going to be able to hold off on impeachment much longer.”

“It is coming to a head,” the Democrat told Fox News, before predicting the mounting pressure from inside her own ranks could force Pelosi to change her position “within the next two weeks.”

Title: Re: Rep. Cohen: '80-90 percent' of Dems on House Judiciary Committee ready to push for Trump impeach
Post by: dfwgator on May 22, 2019, 02:06:25 am

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