House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has produced his committee witness list to initiate the predictable groundwork for his ‘impeachment’ process. Pelosi’s trio of organized co-horts Schiff, Cummings and Nadler each have a role in the process.
Chairman Nadler provides some specifics within his planned approach, announcing three investigative prongs: ¹Obstruction of Justice; ²Public Corruption and ³Abuses of power.
It seems Nadler will tackle the “obstruction” aspect; Cummings will specialize on the “public corruption” angle and Schiff will likely tackle the “abuse of power” approach.
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) unveiled an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee into the alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump, his associates, and members of his Administration. As a first step, the Committee has served document requests to 81 agencies, entities, and individuals believed to have information relevant to the investigation.
“Over the last several years, President Trump has evaded accountability for his near-daily attacks on our basic legal, ethical, and constitutional rules and norms,” said Chairman Jerrold Nadler. “Investigating these threats to the rule of law is an obligation of Congress and a core function of the House Judiciary Committee.
We have seen the damage done to our democratic institutions in the two years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight. Congress must provide a check on abuses of power. Equally, we must protect and respect the work of Special Counsel Mueller, but we cannot rely on others to do the investigative work for us. Our work is even more urgent after senior Justice Department officials have suggested that they may conceal the work of the Special Counsel’s investigation from the public.
“We have sent these document requests in order to begin building the public record. The Special Counsel’s office and the Southern District of New York are aware that we are taking these steps. We will act quickly to gather this information, assess the evidence, and follow the facts where they lead with full transparency with the American people. This is a critical time for our nation, and we have a responsibility to investigate these matters and hold hearings for the public to have all the facts. That is exactly what we intend to do.”
The Committee’s investigation will cover three main areas:
- Obstruction of Justice, including the possibility of interference by the President and others in a number of criminal investigations and other official proceedings, as well as the alleged cover-up of violations of the law;
- Public Corruption, including potential violations of the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution, conspiracy to violate federal campaign and financial reporting laws, and other criminal misuses of official positions for personal gain; and
- Abuses of Power, including attacks on the press, the judiciary, and law enforcement agencies; misuse of the pardon power and other presidential authorities; and attempts to misuse the power of the Office of the Presidency. (link)
Nadler provides his Witness List:
(Link to specifics of listed names)
Byron York finally catches on to the impeachment roadmap {article}, declaring: “Impeachment is On“. For everyone else… this has been entirely predictable since immediately after the November 2018 when Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer began holding organizational meetings with all interested stakeholders.Chairman Cummings and Chairman Schiff have another month before their formal hearing schedules are due for review and approval:
(Pelosi Rules)
All of this is carefully designed. None of this is organic. All of the participants have networked contacts acting as intermediaries (like Lawfare) to provide arms-length plausible deniability to the larger political scheme.These plans and schemes are all professional Democrats spend time thinking and talking about. This is what they do. This is all they do. This is their purpose in life; nothing else matters.
The structural impeachment schedule will ultimately lead to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler. Professional political Democrats would not be using “impeachment” in the constitutional sense of the process (high crimes and misdemeanors); but rather weaponizing the process –as a tool itself– to: •target the executive office; •diminish the presidency (“isolate”/”marginalize”, Alinsky rules); •and position themselves for 2020.
Chairman Nadler will begin specifically focused hearings sometime in late April or May 2019. If they stay committed to the timeline, and so far they are right on cue, the House impeachment vote will be scheduled for sometime in the early/mid fall of this year.
Following their plan, this gives Democrats and the media around six months +/- to build an overwhelming political argument against President Trump; and, with the help of media, create such political controversy that Senate Republicans (Decepticon Caucus) will be showcasing pearl-clutching anxiety into the senate impeachment trial.
Fortunately there are signals beginning to surface that indicate at least some members of congress are aware of the insufferable scheme and beginning to get out in front of it.
Impeachment will likely be started by the House a year from now. Can you guess why then?
Because they studied the timing of the GOP’s 2015 and 2016 Clinton investigations?
@Greg: You know all the document requests and investigations are nothing but opposition research on the tax payers dime.
Its cementing resolve of Trumps base, as the walk away movement is gaining ground while the Democrat party lurches into the land of insane green new deals.
Wait… is this the complete list? Where is “collusion”?
My feelings are hurt. Everyone else in the entire country has been subpoenaed but me. What am I, chopped liver?
Everyone on the list should simply refuse. No cooperation. Why not? Holder refused a subpoena. The FBI refused a subpoena. Apparently, it’s OK. A subpoena means nothing.
Then, if they are forced to appear, they should simply take the 5th like Democrats do. They can’t just LIE like Hillary, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe, Lynch, Strzok did… THEY will be prosecuted. So, just clam up. So these fishing fools the respect they deserve… NONE.
No doubt, they all know the content of Mueller’s conclusions. Hell, we’ve ALL known the conclusions because we’ve ALL known it was a witch hunt from the beginning. So, just like the election, Democrats are refusing to accept the outcome and are now going to investigate anything, everything, everyone, just like Mueller, on the forlorn hope that SOMETHING is there and will be found. It’s what Democrats do in lieu of governing.
And we have a list of the traitors their names they all should be arrested and we start with Nadler arrest them all and charge ten with Treason and Sedition
@Spurwing Plover: We know this is an investigation into the President all documents requested should first go through Trumps attorneys then the President should classify/seal them so we can hold all information needed to further the opposition research at a grinding halt. Just as the FBI and DOJ has done to Spygate. All witnesses need to catch “amnesia” just like the FBI an DOJ.
@kitt: Or, they could simply DESTROY all the evidence requested, ala Hillary. Bleachbit all emails, smash all phones and hard drives and then carpet bomb them with 5th Amendment protection. Just like Democrats do. Justice means nothing and the law means nothing; the left has PROVEN this is the case.