July 27th, 2008 by Robert Rouse
“If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder.“
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Barbara Jordan
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On this date in 1974, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice. It’s too bad the 2008 version of the House doesn’t have the balls of the 1974 House.
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