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In reply to the discussion: Honorable Speaker Pelosi, is impeachment still off the table? [View all]Voltaire2
(15,377 posts)49. There was an "ongoing impeachment process".
An impeachment process against Richard Nixon was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res. 803, giving its Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States[1] of high crimes and misdemeanors, primarily related to the Watergate scandal. This investigation was undertaken one year after the United States Senate established a select committee to investigate the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and the Nixon Administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon
That process is what the courts ruled was immune to executive privilege. They did not rule that any congressi9onal investigation was immune to executive privilege.
If and when the House starts an impeachment investigation, even this court will have a hard time disagreeing with US v Nixon.
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The House voted in February 74 to authorize the Judiciary Committee to start an impeachment inquiry
StarfishSaver
May 2019
#54
She hasn't said it was off the table, just that we need to proceed with hearings and...
brush
May 2019
#22
Mis-characterizing her position seems a rather large portion of your own table.
LanternWaste
May 2019
#26
did she use the words "off the table"? no. Did she repeatedly say that this is not the right time?
Voltaire2
May 2019
#44
They're trying to goad Pelosi and the Democrats into launching impeachment hearings prematurely
StarfishSaver
May 2019
#56