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BREAKING: Republicans Bring Back ‘Impeachment’ Rhetoric

April 15, 2015
Blog Post
Well, the anti-immigrant fringe of the House Republican Conference is back at it again – desperately seeking to find a way to impeach President Obama.

From The Hill:

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) has authored a resolution that seeks to define President Obama's executive actions on immigration as impeachable offenses.

The Yoho resolution defines impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" in a way that is clearly aimed at Obama's actions to unilaterally delay deportations...

House GOP leaders have distanced themselves from talk of impeachment among hard-line conservatives.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) insisted last summer that impeachment is a "scam" perpetuated by Democrats...