McCarthy, House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry plans: The case is strong

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Monday that House Republicans should launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as the next logical step based on the House Committee investigations. 

House Republicans certainly have uncovered enough evidence of wrongdoing through their subpoenaing of bank records, information from whistleblowers, allegations from credible sources, and testimony from first-hand witnesses. 

Simply put, Republicans have more evidence for an impeachment probe than House Democrats did when they launched their impeachment inquiry in September 2019. 

Impeachment is inherently a political process, managed and launched by a political body, Congress. It is not the court of law, it is the court of Congress. 

HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY ANNOUNCES FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN

The Constitution gives broad authority to Congress to not only launch an impeachment probe but to define what “high crimes and misdemeanors” even means. 

Impeachment is the one time that Congress is granted prosecutorial authority, instead of legislative prerogative. Many of the arguments from potential Republican holdouts is that President Biden has not committed a crime. That is simply a misunderstanding of impeachment. 

President Clinton was impeached for a sexual relationship. President Trump was impeached for a phone call with another head of state. Neither of those

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