The pardon power is absolute and isn't subject to restrictions except if there's a state or local crime, and there may be for some of these people.
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I am 100 percent sure that in the new administration there will be a real investigation, and these crimes won't be covered up or swept under the rug.
How ironic. An administration begins by building an unnecessary wall on our southern border, it ends by making necessary, a new wall around this Capitol. Madam Speaker, I introduced Articles of Impeachment in July of 2017 with one…
This weekend, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the Trump administration to early-up the federal security preparations for the inauguration.
What the Attorney General Karl Racine is doing is opening an investigation.
Mitch McConnell has said, well, I can't start a trial until January 19 because the Senate's in recess. This is the same guy who rammed a Supreme Court appointment through three days before an election.
Congress is basically like the opposite of Trump right now. Trump is totally AWOL. We don't see from him. He's doing nothing. But Congress is moving really fast and introduced today the single article of impeachment, focusing on inciting…
I support the idea that the president would be qualified to run for future office? And the answer is absolutely not. This guy is not capable of running for office. He shouldn't be. He should be barred.
I think we could see them as all getting toward the same thing; 25th Amendment, impeachment, Section 3, all of these are different mechanisms our founders gave us for precisely this moment, to remove someone who's 100 percent utterly unfit…
Donald Trump's never going to win an election for dogcatcher again.
These people aren't patriots. These people are insurrectionists.
Yes, our founders were so wise. What they said -- and this is George Mason and others in Philadelphia -- is, we need an impeachment mechanism that does two things, one, takes someone out, removes them from office, but, number two…
There has to be a signal sent so future presidents doesn't act this way.
This person has to be removed from office. There has to be a signal sent so future presidents doesn't act this way.
What Trump is doing, it's about race. It always is African-Americans were disenfranchised.
It's a beautiful summary of the issue. I mean, with Ukraine, Donald Trump tried to cheat with a foreign power to try and win his reelection, trying to get dirt on Joe Biden. Now he's trying to do the same thing domestically.
I thought Trump should be impeached. I still think that.
This is a serious, simple question. Are you an American? Do you believe in democracy? Or do you believe that a thug like this could install himself in power? It's nothing more complicated than that.