'BradCast' 4/23/2019 (To Impeach or Not to Impeach?)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 We focus on accountability and respect for the rule of law and the Constitution, as a lawless Administration and criminal President become more lawless and criminal by the day. The House Oversight Committee moved on Tuesday to vote on contempt charges against former White House Personnel Security Director, Carl Kline, who refused a subpoena to testify on the orders of the Trump White House. Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan says he is considering a primary run against Trump in 2020. Former Trump transition team official J.W. Verret makes the case for impeachment in the wake of Trump's "criminal conduct," revealed by the Mueller Report. But Democrats in Congress are timidly moving ahead with great caution. Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly has not ruled out impeachment, but vowed "to go as fast as the facts take us." During a CNN town hall, most Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls were cautious or circumspect, to varying degrees, in calling for the House to launch an impeachment investigation. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) called for Congress to "take steps toward impeachment," but Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for equal justice under the law and impeachment proceedings against Trump to begin immediately as a Constitutional duty.\xa0 Several Democrats have justified shying away from impeachment proceedings because Senate Republicans are unlikely to vote for conviction. But many Republican Senators supported impeachment and removal of a president who attempted to obstruct justice \u2013 when it impeachment was against President Bill Clinton in 1998. Yet their arguments against Clinton apply directly to Trump. Will those Senators hypocritically vote against conviction this time around?\xa0 Exposing their hypocrisy would be helpful for voters before the 2020 election. We won't know, of course, unless Dems do the right and Constitutional thing by voting in favor of the rule of law and impeachment...