.MaddowBlog: White House eyes new pitch: maybe Trump wasn’t actually impeached?
As much of the world probably noticed, the U.S. House voted, with relative ease, to impeach Donald Trump last week. Just one day later, however, Bloomberg News ran a report suggesting that, as far as the White House was concerned, maybe the president wasn’t actually impeached.
CBS News ran a related report over the weekend, noting, “The White House is considering making the argument that President Trump has not officially been impeached, given that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate.” But there’s a related problem: the Trump administration may not fully believe the controversial argument. Politico reported this morning on some new legal filings from the Justice Department:
However, the Justice Department attorneys said the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to move forward with the impeachment vote means there’s no longer urgency to resolve the House’s case.
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