Politico: 5 reporters review the week in impeachment

12.14.2019 / By Politico Staff
Politico: 5 reporters review the week in impeachment

Common Cause, for example, recommended the House pass nine articles. “Not including expanded articles … gives a green light for future presidents that these abuses can go unpunished,” Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs at Common Cause recently told me.

Our weekly review of congressional impeachment machinations often seeks to clarify and explain the historic events by asking, “So, what exactly happened?”

In a whipsaw week of political theater that saw Democrats unveil and approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, paving the way for an expected floor vote Wednesday, perhaps the simpler deductive question would be “So, what exactly didn’t happen?”

Notably, Democrats didn’t take up a Mueller-focused article. Lawmakers didn’t change their partisan stances on impeaching the president. And aside from an unexpected delay in the Judicial panel vote, the timeline of the impeachment process seemingly didn’t change.

Common Cause, for example, recommended the House pass nine articles. “Not including expanded articles … gives a green light for future presidents that these abuses can go unpunished,” Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs at Common Cause recently told me.

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