Lanny Davis discusses the need for an impeachment investigation of President Trump in a recent oped for the Daily Caller. Davis calls for a bipartisan effort in support of impeachment noting, “If ever there was a time for patriotic commitment to principle over party and the constitution over partisan interests, this is that time.”

I keep asking myself: If a Democratic president had conducted himself — or herself — as Donald Trump has in the first year, would I favor the beginning of an impeachment process? I ask all Republicans who care about our constitution and the future of our country to ask the same question.

My answer is yes. We cannot afford a partisan double standard on this essential question of impeachment under our Constitution.

The constitutional standard for impeaching a president, under Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, is a congressional finding that a president has committed “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

That phrase was not further defined in the Constitution. The Framers and most constitutional scholars agreed that an impeachable offense must involve a presidential abuse of power — one that threatens our constitutional system or national security. It must involve, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper No. 65, “the abuse or violation of some public trust…[and relates] chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”

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In the case of Donald Trump, there are many examples of specific words and deeds that Republicans as well as Democrats should regard as deserving of investigation as to whether they meet Hamilton’s standard of “violation of some public trust” and “injuries done immediately to society itself.”

Let’s look at just one: Donald Trump’s serial, willful, material lies to the American people. In other words lies that he indisputably knew were lies when he uttered them.

 

Click here to read the full article in the Daily Caller. 

On this day last year, Impeach Donald Trump Now began a campaign calling for an impeachment investigation to be launched by Congress into the violations of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution by Donald Trump. Since the launch of the campaign, we have expanded the grounds for impeachment to include obstruction of justice and other abuses of power. Together, we have achieved the following milestones in this campaign throughout the past year:

• 3 million people across the country have signed on in support of launching an impeachment investigation of President Trump;

• 17 cities and towns have passed local impeachment resolutions calling for an impeachment investigation;

• 2 votes have been called in Congress for Articles of Impeachment, led by Congressman Al Green; and

• 58 Members of Congress voted on December 6, 2017 in favor of impeachment proceedings against President Trump; in the second vote on January 19, 2018, 66 Members of Congress voted in favor of impeachment proceedings.

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Impeach Donald Trump Now, launched a campaign for an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, based on violations of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution. Since that time, we have expanded our grounds for impeachment to include obstruction of justice, following the firing of FBI Director, James Comey. Now, new evidence has emerged of further obstruction by the Trump administration in the federal criminal investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

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Free Speech For People’s Chair of the Board, Ben Clements, and Legal Director, Ron Fein, pen an op-ed for Newsweek highlighting President Trump’s willful violation of the Constitution:

“Patriotic Americans disagree on many things. But one thing almost all of us can agree on is that we are nation of laws and that no man or woman is above the law.

And in our system of government, the supreme law that stands above all else is our founding charter, the Constitution of the United States.

No president in our history has openly taken the position that he stands above and need not comply with the requirements of our law, especially the supreme law enshrined in our Constitution.

Until now.”

To read the original article on Newsweek, click here.