Jerry Nadler: 'Personally, I think the president ought to be impeached'
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is all in on impeaching President Trump.
Except, as he told WNYC in a Monday interview, he's not sure the public is quite convinced. So he's holding off for now as his committee continues to investigate Trump — something he says will keep the judiciary too busy to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the time being.
"Personally, I think the president ought to be impeached," Nadler said in the Monday interview. But "we cannot impeach the president against the will of the American people," Nadler added, saying his job for now is to keep sharing most of the evidence against Trump with the public through continued impeachment hearings. Those public appearances are especially essential because the Senate won't vote for Trump's removal, but the House still has a duty to "vindicate the Constitution," Nadler added.
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Nadler did say in the Monday interview and last week that he doesn't care much about the semantics around the so-called impeachment "inquiry" or "hearings" or "investigation" Democrats are embarking on right now. And as for the other question of whether Kavanaugh should be impeached over reported sexual misconduct in college, well, Nadler says his committee has its "hands full" with all this Trump stuff for now. Find Nadler's whole interview at WNYC.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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