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Adam Schiff: “If you can't have the ability to enforce an impeachment power, you might as well not put it in the Constitution.”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2020
If you can't have the ability to enforce an impeachment power, you might as well not put it in the Constitution.
Said by
Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that the enforcement of impeachment power is crucial to the Constitution's integrity.

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