He explains in a guest WSJ op-ed why he voted against it.
by G.K.Chesterton (2024-02-06 23:34:15)
Edited on 2024-02-06 23:35:28

In reply to: Kudos to Mike Gallagher especially *  posted by EmilT76

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(I had seen at least one other conservative recently state he/she was against the impeachment vote, but can't recall who.)

See the link below for the whole op-ed piece, but here's how it concludes:

In 2019 and 2021, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats used impeachment as a weapon against Mr. Trump, though they couldn’t produce evidence he had committed a crime. It was a rushed, hyperpartisan process that lowered the bar for what constitutes an impeachable offense. Republicans rightly railed against this effort and the dangers of a single-party impeachment, impeachment for unpopular decisions, impeachment for non-criminal acts, and impeachment for not complying with congressional subpoenas.

Republicans should reject the Pelosi precedent. Creating a new, lower standard for impeachment, one without any clear limiting principle, wouldn’t secure the border or hold Mr. Biden accountable. It would only pry open the Pandora’s box of perpetual impeachment.



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