Thursday, November 7, 2019

White House Letter Distorts Both Law and History on Impeachment

https://www.justsecurity.org/66534/white-house-letter-distorts-both-law-and-history-on-impeachment/?fbclid=IwAR3UxbY4puWRit_UPvK81Axh9ygtfWPlxITiJvWiVBY24k9ZKrOzR_iQXOY
"The White House letter of October 8 refusing all executive branch cooperation with the ongoing House impeachment inquiry is, simply put, a public relations exercise. The legal arguments it intersperses between insults to members of the House Democratic leadership and appeals to the President’s base voters are without foundation. The errors and mischaracterizations are so numerous that they cannot all be addressed in this space. Instead, I will consider only the fundamental misconceptions at the heart of the White House argument, as well as a single illustrative historical incident – the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson."