![]() So it's a completely unacceptable situation, an untenable situation, and we need this to be on the table along with everything else that we're doing. The president has essentially ordered everybody in the executive branch not to comply with our subpoenas, not to render testimony to Congress, not to produce documents and so on. The real question is, should we have an inquiry that looks into whether there have been high crimes and misdemeanors?Īnd I think there has been such overwhelming evidence presented to us from the special counsel in the Mueller report of presidential obstruction of justice, 11 different episodes of it, that it's staring us in the face.Īnd since the Mueller report finally came out, after that agonizing choreography by Attorney General Barr, we have had even more obstruction from the White House. And the press has framed this as impeachment or no impeachment. Raskin said: “I think that there is an implicit standard and the implicit standard is that if someone is convicted of a crime, at that point, they basically set themselves or against civil society, and they don’t belong in Congress.Well, you know, a number of members on the Judiciary Committee, probably a majority of the Judiciary Committee, now feels that it's time to launch an impeachment inquiry. Raskin’s interviewer, David Corn, asked if there should be a standard for expulsion, given the House and Senate ethics committees “historically have not been models of investigative vigor”. There is no standard for expulsion under House rules or the constitution.” Raskin said: “The point is, if we don’t stand by due process, and the rule of law, at that point we’re just in the realm of politics and emotion. Democrats dropped a motion to censure Taylor Greene. The motion to censure Tlaib, for alleged antisemitism, was sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Georgia Republican. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. ![]() For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. We want to expel her.’” skip past newsletter promotion And we think she lied about something at least as important as what you lied about. For example, they’ve been accusing Rashida Tlaib about events in Israel, and regardless of where you stand on any of that, they would say, ‘Well, she’s not been convicted of anything, but neither was George Santos. Raskin said: “I can think of five Democratic members they would love to expel. On Wednesday, a resolution to censure Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat and as the only Palestinian American in Congress outspoken on the Israel-Hamas war, also fell short. Members of the Republican New York delegation brought the expulsion resolution that failed on Wednesday.īeholden to a narrow majority, Republican leaders have refused to move significantly against Santos, referring him instead to the House ethics committee. He has said he intends to run for re-election next year, shortly after his trial, as one of a number of New York Republicans seeking to fend off Democratic challenges. Pleading not guilty, he now faces 23 federal criminal charges, including laundering funds to pay for personal expenses, illegally receiving unemployment benefits and charging donors’ credit cards without consent. Santos was elected in New York last year but his résumé unravelled (he admitted “embellishing” it) as picaresque and allegedly criminal behaviour came to light. ![]() Raskin continued: “For us to take the step of expelling someone who had not been convicted of anything would be a really dangerous manoeuvre, especially with the Republicans in control of the House.” After seven years in jail, he attempted to run for re-election. James A Traficant, an Ohio Democrat, was the last House member to be expelled, in 2002 and after being convicted of crimes including conspiracy to commit bribery, obstruction of justice and racketeering. Three of them were Confederate traitors and the other two had other federal criminal convictions.” We’ve expelled five people in the history of the US House of Representatives. Santos “hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, and he has not been convicted of anything in our ethics process”, Raskin told Mother Jones.
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