CNN is reporting on a new call for impeachment of both Trump and AG Barr:
Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed “impeachable conduct” and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally misleading the public.
Amash’s comments recommending Congress pursue obstruction of justice charges against Trump were the first instance of a sitting Republican in Congress calling for Trump’s impeachment.
Despite being a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, Amash appears to have a handle on how our form of government should work:
“Our system of checks and balances relies on each branch’s jealously guarding its powers and upholding its duties under our Constitution,” Amash tweeted. “When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the Rule of Law — the foundation of liberty — crumbles.”
The call of a single Republican Representative for impeachment is not enough to impress me that the GOP is all set to give Trump the heave-ho and then reform itself. The fact of the matter is that too many groups are getting what they want from Trump, and therefore will ignore what would be normally unacceptable. This ranges from the Evangelicals trading their souls for anti-abortion SCOTUS justices to all-fire conservatives getting any lawyer with a conservative credential nominated to the bench, regardless of their true qualities, or even, inexplicably, the chance they’ll rule against the conservative doctrine, all while Trump pushes other awful policies, such as the tariff wars.
The unsuppressable revulsion of a single Republican Rep just doesn’t do it.
If he’s followed by a dozen more, then the game may be changing. I don’t expect it to happen, but that’s what it would take.
My guess is that the Michigan GOP and the national GOP will expel him, and he’ll become an Independent, since I don’t see a Tea Party member joining up with the Democrats.
But at least he can sleep a little easier at night.
