GOP Rep. Justin Amash tells colleagues the 'ball is on our court' after Mueller statement
Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn't say much during his brief statement on Wednesday, so Congress is reading between the lines.
Mueller gave his first in-person statement about his probe into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign's conduct surrounding it on Wednesday, notably saying that indicting President Trump was "not an option" under Department of Justice guidelines. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), who was the first and so far only Republican in Congress to call for Trump's impeachment, decided that meant it was time for Congress to pick up where Mueller left off.
Amash was far from the only lawmaker to renew an impeachment call following Mueller's comments, with 2020 candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) tweeting that "Congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately." House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) didn't explicitly mention impeachment, but he did say Congress will "respond to" Trump's "crimes, lies and other wrongdoing" in a statement.
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