Steyer pressures Congress to impeach

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4. For Pelosi, test: Impeach or not?

By Dan Balz
May 27, 2019 — 4.48am

House Democrats, under the leadership of Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are slowly marching themselves toward the opening of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. What seemed out of the question earlier in the year now seems, if not inevitable, increasingly difficult to resist.

Pelosi will not say anything like that at this point. She will continue to try to communicate to both sides of her divided party, nodding to hard-liners by suggesting that Trump's actions constitute potentially impeachable offences while bowing to vulnerable members in swing districts by speaking cautiously about impeachment itself.

"We're not at that place," Pelosi said at a Thursday news conference, when the question of impeachment came up.

That caution came after she noted that the investigations currently underway in the House could lead to "a place that is unavoidable in terms of impeachment". She also asserted that the White house "is just crying out" for impeachment ...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/for-pelosi-the-biggest-test-awaits-impeach-or-not-impeach-20190527-p51reg.html