{"id":8271,"date":"2019-09-12T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-continues-calls-for-congressional-impeachment-investigation-as-vote-approaches\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:55:06","slug":"common-cause-continues-calls-for-congressional-impeachment-investigation-as-vote-approaches","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/press\/common-cause-continues-calls-for-congressional-impeachment-investigation-as-vote-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Continues Calls for Congressional Impeachment Investigation as Vote Approaches\u00a0\u00a0"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8271","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, as the House Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on an impeachment inquiry, Common Cause continued its call for Members to support the investigation in response to White House non-cooperation and stonewalling of any attempts to investigate past and current potential criminal conduct or wrongdoing by President Trump or members of his administration. Common Cause mobilized its 1.2 million members over the congressional recess to gain additional Member support for the impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House of Representatives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[130,149,165,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, as the House Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on an impeachment inquiry, Common Cause continued its call for Members to support the investigation in response to White House non-cooperation and stonewalling of any attempts to investigate past and current potential criminal conduct or wrongdoing by President Trump or members of his administration. Common Cause mobilized its 1.2 million members over the congressional recess to gain additional Member support for the impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House of Representatives.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe American people deserve to know the full truth about Russia\u2019s attacks on our elections, and about the apparent obstruction of justice and felony campaign finance violations committed by President Trump and his advisors,\u201d\u00a0said Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn. \u201cCitizens made it very clear over the congressional recess that they expect their Representatives to support an impeachment investigation to get to the truth behind White House stonewalling. Without the full weight and additional powers inherent in an impeachment investigation, it has become apparent that the truth will never be revealed to the American people. The House has been forced to exercise these Constitutional powers by a presidential administration that has refused to acknowledge Congress as a co-equal branch of our government. The impeachment investigation must include televised public hearings so that the American people can learn the truth about their President and his administration. Our Constitution guarantees that no American is above the law, including the President.\u201d\r\n\r\nCommon Cause initially <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F07%2Fcover-letter-to-Congress.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7C31324c19542f46ef4ef008d7108026d0%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636996014907554060&amp;sdata=7PLIeytWiTm%2F0F989oXAAsSskDOi49xX7NLQeJHemsQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u043d\u0430\u0437\u044b\u0432\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f<\/a> for the investigation on July 24, sending a <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fresource%2Fthe-case-for-an-impeachment-inquiry-of-president-trump%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7C31324c19542f46ef4ef008d7108026d0%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636996014907534070&amp;sdata=zkuJLh1cucM%2FE1J%2F8oCC2ItbhYA7lqMAcoBGN8szj7I%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u043e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442<\/a>\u00a0to every member of the House, making the case, and stressing the need, for the impeachment inquiry. Simultaneously the organization launched a website <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachmentinquiry.org\/\">ImpeachmentInquiry.org<\/a> to track Representatives\u2019 positions on the impeachment inquiry and to facilitate public outreach to House Members to urge them to support such an investigation. Since that initial call, tens of thousands of Common Cause members nationwide have called, emailed, or met with their U.S. Representatives urging them to support an impeachment inquiry. To date, the nonpartisan watchdog organization has verified that at least 136 U.S. House Members support the inquiry \u2013 including more than half of the Democratic majority in the chamber.\r\n\r\nIn its report calling for the investigation, Common Cause emphasizes the evidence laid out in Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s report to Congress detailing multiple instances of apparent obstruction of justice by the president, his dereliction of duty with regards to stopping ongoing Russian attacks on our elections, and his refusal to admit such attacks even occurred during the 2016 election, as well as numerous felony campaign finance violations.\r\n\r\nAn\u00a0overwhelming majority of constitutional\u00a0law\u00a0experts\u00a0are in agreement\u00a0that Congress\u2019 power to conduct investigations and force compliance with subpoenas is at its\u00a0peak\u00a0when the subpoena is related to impeachment proceedings, because the Constitution explicitly vests the power to impeach with the House of Representatives. By contrast, Congress\u2019 general oversight authority is only an implied power in the Constitution, so federal courts are not as likely to enforce\u00a0congressional\u00a0subpoenas as those\u00a0vested\u00a0with\u00a0the force of\u00a0an impeachment proceeding behind them.\r\n\r\nSince the country\u2019s founding, Congress has impeached two sitting presidents, with neither ultimately convicted by the Senate\u00a0and\u00a0removed from office. Common Cause has emphasized from the outset that impeachment is not a measure that the government watchdog takes lightly, and in nearly 50 years, this is the first time the organization has called for an impeachment investigation of a president. Common Cause has stressed to Congress that the organization feels strongly, though, that the current president\u2019s actions have reached a tipping point that must be addressed with the most significant investigatory tools that the Constitution prescribes.\r\n\r\nTo the ImpeachmentInquiry.org website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachmentinquiry.org\/\">\u043a\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u044e\u0434\u0430<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTo view the cover letter to Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F07%2Fcover-letter-to-Congress.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7C31324c19542f46ef4ef008d7108026d0%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636996014907554060&amp;sdata=7PLIeytWiTm%2F0F989oXAAsSskDOi49xX7NLQeJHemsQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u043a\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u044e\u0434\u0430<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTo view the full report to Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fresource%2Fthe-case-for-an-impeachment-inquiry-of-president-trump%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7C31324c19542f46ef4ef008d7108026d0%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636996014907544061&amp;sdata=PbNxo2olKATb4l9KskzK6kjUqCuWtTCrmYoOYn1JwBg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u043a\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u044e\u0434\u0430<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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