Democrats Ready To Move Forward With Second Impeachment

With just a week left remaining in President Trump’s term, the House of Representatives is heading toward an impeachment vote for the second time in less than a year. The reason being fellow lawmakers’ outrage in the president’s role in the attack of the Capitol last week.

This week the House will take two major steps toward impeaching Trump, making him the only president in history to be impeached twice.

First, the house will vote on a resolution from Representative Jamie Raskin calling on the Vice President to invoke the 25th Amendment to have Trump removed from office, meaning that the president will be declared “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

Vice President Mike Pence is not expected to oblige, and if he doesn’t the Democrats will then move forward with the second impeachment of the president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined the plan on Monday saying, The House will next take up the Raskin legislation in regular order to call upon the Vice President to activate the 25th Amendment to remove the President. We are further calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours after passage.”

“As our next step,” she continued, “we will move forward with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor. The President’s threat to America is urgent, and so too will be our action.”

Representative David Cicilline announced on Monday that Democrats have obtained the votes necessary to impeach President Trump for “Incitement of Insurrection.”

The article of impeachment claims that “President Trump endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the Democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government. He therefore betrayed his trust as president, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”