{"id":399586,"date":"2019-03-15T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-says-impeaching-trump-is-not-worth-it-but-progressives-push-ahead\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:33:15","slug":"pelosi-says-impeaching-trump-is-not-worth-it-but-progressives-push-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-says-impeaching-trump-is-not-worth-it-but-progressives-push-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Says Impeaching Trump Is \u201cNot Worth It,\u201d But Progressives Push Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers are continuing to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking out against impeachment in an interview earlier this week. Impeachment rumors have been swirling since the Democrats regained control of the House in January. Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said last week that she will formally introduce articles of impeachment this month. We speak with John Bonifaz, an attorney and political activist specializing in constitutional law and voting rights. He is the co-founder and president of Free Speech for People, one of the organizations calling for Trump\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n<div class=\" inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-1537769192\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"truth-950706865\">\n<h2>Stay in the loop<\/h2>\n<p>Never miss the news and analysis you care about.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>This is<span> <\/span><em>Democracy Now!<\/em><span> <\/span>I\u2019m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">NERMEEN<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">SHAIKH<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Democratic lawmakers are continuing to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking out against impeachment in an interview earlier this week. Impeachment rumors have been swirling since the Democrats regained control of the House in January. But Pelosi told<span> <\/span><em>The Washington Post<\/em><span> <\/span>Monday she is not planning on launching impeachment proceedings against Trump, saying, quote, \u201cHe\u2019s just not worth it,\u201d and that it was too divisive. She called Trump \u201cethically and intellectually unfit\u201d for the presidency, but said Congress would require an overwhelming and bipartisan reason for impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>But some Democratic lawmakers have pushed back on Pelosi\u2019s comments. Washington congressmember and Progressive Caucus co-chair, Pramila Jayapal, said that congressional investigations should determine the appropriate course of action and that evidence of a, quote, \u201cconsistent pattern of abuse of power, [or] of obstruction of justice,\u201d would be grounds for impeachment. Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said that she would continue with plans to formally introduce articles of impeachment this month. This is Tlaib&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/pelosi-says-impeaching-trump-is-not-worth-it-but-progressives-push-ahead\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers are continuing to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking out against impeachment in an interview earlier this week. Impeachment rumors have been swirling since the Democrats regained control of the House in January. Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said last week that she will formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}