The Supreme Court granted Donald Trump criminal immunity for official acts as president, but that immunity does not extend to everyone involved in potentially corrupt acts with Trump.
Democrats have been laying the groundwork for months for these investigations by looking into companies that are getting government contracts and those who engage in business deals with the president.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, said on MS NOW’s The Weekend:
So we’re going to continue to assert the rule of law at every turn with our allies in. We’ve been trying to gather as much information as possible about all of the scams, all of the corrupt rip-offs.
We’ll be able to pursue those investigations with the power of the subpoena.
Raskin said that House Democrats are not afraid to impeach Trump again, but will only be done if it helps them make progress for the country:
Well, the American people want a restoration of the rule of law, and we want the government to be the government, to be an instrument for the common— it is working to get healthcare for people.
It is working to get healthcare for people, working to protect our environment, counter climate change and end this reign. That’s the principal thing.
You know, we’ve impeached Donald Trump twice.
He’s already the only doubly impeached president in American history.
There have only been, I think he’s going to make— understand that impeachments in our entire history as a country and he has 50% of them.
So, you know, would we go to make them 3 of 5, 60% of them?
Nobody is afraid of that, but we understand that impeachment is not a panacea.
It’s certainly not a taboo for us.
We’ve already proven we have to be making progress. I don’t know if I’m going to do that, but the thing is we’ve got to be making progress for the country. And so if impeachment advances that process, we would do it, and if not, we won’t.
There won’t be impeachment for the sake of impeachment. Democrats will do it if impeachment advances making progress for the country.