House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who will likely be the Speaker of the House come January, said Sunday that he is a “hard yes” when it comes to impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“I’m a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran,” Jeffries said to ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had told Karl that he intends to introduce a resolution of impeachment against the defense secretary.
Nah, this is smart. Convict the provable war criminal who doesn’t have branded merch for the cult, if you can’t get him you can’t get Trump.
I just don’t trust Jeffries to take Step 2.
they can’t do anything to Hegseth without
60%67% of the Senate. Maybe this will pressure trump to appoint someone else, but that might actually be worse for everyone if he does it in the next few weeks.67%, I think. To convict in the senate in an impeachment trial you need a two-thirds majority.
Not sure about other impeachments beyond the president.
Yeah that one was a typo. I looked it up and couldn’t find anything specific beyond the constitution which a law journal confirmed covers all impeachments. Simple majority to impeach, 2/3rds to convict. I would be extremely surprised if anyone crossed the aisle to convict, but Texas also turned blue last week, so who knows!