Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) slammed President Trump and Attorney General William Barr is a series of tweets, while saying he offers his conclusions “only after having read Mueller’s redacted report carefully and completely.” Amash states his “principal conclusions” as follows: Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances. Few members of Congress have read the report. He concludes: “America’s institutions depend on officials to uphold both the rules and spirit of our constitutional system even when to do so is personally inconvenient or yields a politically unfavorable outcome. Our Constitution is brilliant and awesome; it deserves a government to match it.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/politics/justin-amash-trump-impeachable-conduct/index.html GOP Rep. Amash becomes first Republican to call for Trump's impeachment
As a young man I watched every moment of the Irwin Committee hearings -- they were re-broadcast each evening. These led inexorably to what would have been Nixon's conviction in the Senate of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," had he not chosen to resign. At first, and very slowly, a reticence to defend him began to appear among his stalwarts. Then, one by one, Nixon's Republican defenders broke ranks. Toward the end, there was a great rush to get on the right side of history. A few who remained on the fence until very near the bitter end ended up looking like fools. Like Nixon, Trump will fight at least until he has nothing but utter fools defending him. However unlike Nixon, who also harbored a personality disorder, Trump may fight on thinking he can beat the clock with the help of a slow Court. Even if Trump were to be re-elected in 2020 however, it seems unlikely the Senate can remain in Republican hands after 2020 -- there are just far too many Republican Senate seats up for grabs for that to be a likely outcome. Then it will be over for Trump. Is the Nation ready for four years of President Pence? Will Paul Manafort's pick of Pence as Trump's running mate exact an unplanned revenge on the Nation that sent him to prison for virtually the remainder of his natural life? This dire possibility can not be lost on our Courts. Therefore I expect them to handle the up coming complaints brought by House Committees against Donald J. Trump in the D.C. District Court, and Merrick Garland's District Appeals Court, to be handled with uncharacteristic haste; approaching the speed of light! Surely the specter of a President Pence ensconced in the Oval Office awaiting the Rapture will be much too much for our liberally educated D.C. Judges.
Sorry, it's Sam Ervin, not "Irwin." It isn't a senior moment, I have actually misspelled his last name for years, different spellings, but always wrong! It was North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin that so famously led the Watergate hearings that brought down Nixon. Sam liked to say, "I'm just a country lawyer." and he loved to quote the Bible. He was in reality one of the most astute legal minds of his era in the U.S. Congress, and very far from the folksy picture of a "Country Lawyer" that he may have used in an attempt to disarm his hapless adversaries. Here is a quote from the opening lines of a 1973 Rolling Stone Article. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/sermon-on-the-hill-a-sam-ervin-sampler-70955/ These lines, written years ago, seem prophetic today. [And note, his name is misspelled in the photo caption below. ] Sermon on the Hill: A Sam Ervin Sampler Watergate: A Summer Recess Reader continues with the wit and wisdom of Chairman Sam Ervin in the Watergate hearings By Charles Perry Watergate Hearing: May 18th, 1973. (left to right) Senator Howard Baker, Senator Sam Irvin, Majority Council Sam Dash, Senator Herman E Talmadge and Senator Daniel Inouye listening to the testimony of James McCord. Gene Forte/Getty Samuel James Ervin, Jr., the son of a North Carolina lawyer, reluctantly left the judicial bench in 1946 to run for a state office vacated by his brother’s death; then reluctantly entered national politics in 1954 and straightaway led the fight to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Cold War witch hunter. Courage had gone in short supply in the Senate at that time, but Sam Ervin seemed to have it to spare, as his military decorations from World War I—gallantry in action citations, Purple Heart and all—attested. Today he faces the last of the Cold War warriors, Richard M. Nixon, with the same determined spirit. The contrast between the two men could not be clearer. It showed in every newspaper or magazine that ever ran photos of them side by side. The lines in their faces say plainly which man is accustomed to smiling. For the first time since the ill-managed McGovern campaign there is opposition to Nixon’s unprincipled lust for personal power, and an effective spokesman against the program of repression Nixon put into effect after he took over the White House. ....
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) ramped up his critical remarks of President Trump, detailing in a series of tweets why he thinks Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice. Tweeted Amash: “People who say there were no underlying crimes and therefore the president could not have intended to illegally obstruct the investigation—and therefore cannot be impeached—are resting their argument on several falsehoods.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...amily-ends-longtime-amash-support/3768422002/ DeVos family ends longtime Amash support Lansing — The powerful DeVos family of West Michigan is ending its longtime support of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, the libertarian Republican who has repeatedly clashed with President Donald Trump. The family has not made any political contributions to Amash this cycle, and “they have no plans to do so,” said family spokesman Nick Wasmiller. The GOP megadonors decided to cut ties with Amash before his latest dust-up with the president and his assertion that Trump engaged in “impeachable conduct,” Wasmiller told The Detroit News. “Family members have expressed increasing concerns about a lack of representation for their district, the 3rd Congressional, and I would say an inability to advance efforts connected to important policy matters," he said.
Former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-MO) called for the impeachment of President Trump, who he said is an “illegitimate president,” CNN reports. Said Coleman: “I’m calling for impeachment now because the Mueller report is out, and in it special counsel Robert Mueller describes 10 obstruction of justice charges that he could not bring because of a Department of Justice rule and regulation that says you can’t indict a sitting president — that’s (reason) number one.” He added: “Number two, I believe this is an illegitimate President because he welcomed help and influence from the Russians in his campaign. For example, his campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with a Russian intelligence asset in New York and shared with him their polling information and a strategy on how to win the Midwestern states.”
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) tore into Attorney General William Barr in a 25-tweet threadfor his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation. Said Amash: “Barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of Mueller’s report and decisions in the investigation, which has helped further the president’s false narrative about the investigation.”