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Tom McClintock: “Well, this is precisely the abuse of impeachment the American Founders feared, that the power to overrule a national…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2019
Well, this is precisely the abuse of impeachment the American Founders feared, that the power to overrule a national election would devolve into a weapon of partisan warfare, reducing the President to serving at the pleasure of Congress and destroying the separation of powers at the heart of our Constitution.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock argues impeachment undermines democracy and the Constitution.

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