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Democrat in Competitive California District, Katie Porter, Joins Call for Impeachment Inquiry
Source: New York Times
Democrat in Competitive California District Joins Call for Impeachment Inquiry
By Nicholas Fandos and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
June 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — Representative Katie Porter, a law professor who narrowly flipped part of Republicans’ Southern California stronghold to the Democrats in last year’s midterm elections, said on Monday that she would support opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
The announcement makes Ms. Porter one of the first to endorse impeachment of the 40 or so “front-line Democrats” whose seats are deemed endangered by their party. It could signal a more complex challenge ahead for Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she tries to navigate the thorny politics of resisting impeachment proceedings, demonstrating that support for such a move is no longer limited to lawmakers from the party’s safest districts.
In a video posted Monday evening announcing her decision, Ms. Porter, 45, nodded to the political strain of her position. But she argued that Mr. Trump’s refusal to comply with congressional investigations after the report by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, had brought the country to “a crisis” she had not imagined as she campaigned last fall focused on pocketbook issues like health care and housing.
“The administration has refused to respect the rule of law. They have ignored multiple subpoenas; they’ve directed current and former high-ranking officials to disregard summons to testify; and the president has continued his efforts to spread mistrust of our law enforcement, contempt for our journalists, and false information about the law, Director Mueller’s findings, and basic, uncontested facts,” Ms. Porter said. “The question is not whether a crisis is in our midst, but rather whether we choose to fight against it.”
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By Nicholas Fandos and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
June 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — Representative Katie Porter, a law professor who narrowly flipped part of Republicans’ Southern California stronghold to the Democrats in last year’s midterm elections, said on Monday that she would support opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
The announcement makes Ms. Porter one of the first to endorse impeachment of the 40 or so “front-line Democrats” whose seats are deemed endangered by their party. It could signal a more complex challenge ahead for Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she tries to navigate the thorny politics of resisting impeachment proceedings, demonstrating that support for such a move is no longer limited to lawmakers from the party’s safest districts.
In a video posted Monday evening announcing her decision, Ms. Porter, 45, nodded to the political strain of her position. But she argued that Mr. Trump’s refusal to comply with congressional investigations after the report by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, had brought the country to “a crisis” she had not imagined as she campaigned last fall focused on pocketbook issues like health care and housing.
“The administration has refused to respect the rule of law. They have ignored multiple subpoenas; they’ve directed current and former high-ranking officials to disregard summons to testify; and the president has continued his efforts to spread mistrust of our law enforcement, contempt for our journalists, and false information about the law, Director Mueller’s findings, and basic, uncontested facts,” Ms. Porter said. “The question is not whether a crisis is in our midst, but rather whether we choose to fight against it.”
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/politics/katie-porter-impeachment.html
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