December 2019 Updates and the Year in Review

House Democrats have just voted to pass two articles of impeachment against President Trump, one for abuse of power and the other for obstruction of Congress. There is no factual or legal basis for either of these. The lack of evidence to justify impeachment is why not one single Republican voted for either article.

Impeachment Article I alleges that President Trump abused his power. The primary witness to this is also the supposed victim of that power abuse – President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Zelensky has stated: ‘There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S.' This should have immediately closed the case, but it was not dropped even when more inconvenient facts came out. No foreign aid was unduly withheld, the expected money was released, and no investigation took place. This is why the Democrats' narrative has changed time and time again. First, they accused President Trump of quid pro quo, then of bribery, and finally charged him with abuse of power, an accusation that in no way constitutes a crime or misdemeanor. They apparently think Americans are gullible enough to believe this.

Furthermore, impeachment Article II claims that the President obstructed Congress. While obstruction of justice is a crime, obstruction of Congress is not. "Obstruction of Congress" is non-legal, newly invented concept that Adam Schiff and the Democrat collaborators made up. This accusation is really about how President Trump refused to comply with a sham process. In 2014, the Obama Administration's Office of Legal Counsel provided a memorandum opinion directly related to this issue. That opinion declared, as had previous Administrations, that the President and his immediate advisers cannot be compelled to participate in testimonial proceedings set by Congress. The memorandum reads, "The Executive Branch's longstanding position, reaffirmed by numerous Administrations of both political parties, is that the President's immediate advisers are absolutely immune from congressional testimonial process…This immunity is rooted in the constitutional separation of powers, and in the immunity of the President himself from congressional compulsion to testify."

Are we to ignore all previous precedents and legal procedures simply when one party has such intense derision for a particular President? My perspective is one of great concern for how this divisive, partisan impeachment effort will affect our country's future.

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