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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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