amnesiac7 to [email protected] • 11 months agoMike Johnson Is Still Against Single-Party Impeachments. Unless He’s Leading One.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-linkMike Johnson Is Still Against Single-Party Impeachments. Unless He’s Leading One.www.motherjones.comamnesiac7 to [email protected] • 11 months agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@ArbiterXerolink5•11 months agoIt’s all horseshit. If you look at the records, the only time anyone ever broke party lines to vote for an impeachment was a Republican against trump. Every other impeachment vote in history was strictly along party lines. That’s not to say he isn’t a piece of shit, but I’d rather keep the problems clear.
minus-square@ultranautlink5•11 months agoI remember various Democrats voting for impeachment during Clinton, or am I misunderstanding? It looks like it happened in the Johnson impeachment too based off some quick searching.
minus-square@ArbiterXerolink1•11 months agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/05/no-senator-ever-voted-remove-president-his-party-office-until-mitt-romney/
minus-square@ultranautlink2•11 months agoI see now, that’s specifically Senators and I was thinking of votes in the House.
It’s all horseshit.
If you look at the records, the only time anyone ever broke party lines to vote for an impeachment was a Republican against trump.
Every other impeachment vote in history was strictly along party lines.
That’s not to say he isn’t a piece of shit, but I’d rather keep the problems clear.
I remember various Democrats voting for impeachment during Clinton, or am I misunderstanding? It looks like it happened in the Johnson impeachment too based off some quick searching.
A quick check confirms you’re right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/05/no-senator-ever-voted-remove-president-his-party-office-until-mitt-romney/
I see now, that’s specifically Senators and I was thinking of votes in the House.
I suppose I could have been clearer 😝