By: Nick Arama - redstate.com - October 31, 2019
Conservatives are calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) out for her failure to adhere to proper procedure in regard to the ‘impeachment inquiry.’
While Pelosi finally held a vote today on rules to move forward with in the matter, 40 conservative groups have just filed an ethic complaint against her. They excoriated her for the past issues as well as continuing issues, calling the proceeding and her actions unconstitutional and partisan.
Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots wrote the letter sent to the Office of Congressional Ethics and signed onto by the groups.
From The Hill:
“Speaker Pelosi’s conduct is an encroachment across the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers. She has no business examining or investigating the president’s legitimate exercise of his authority to determine the foreign and national security policy of the United States,” the complaint stated.
“In launching her ‘official’ impeachment inquiry without benefit of a vote of the full House of Representatives and without indicating anything remotely qualifying as ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’ that is the subject of the inquiry, Speaker Pelosi has weaponized impeachment,” the complaint continued.
“She and her Democratic colleagues are using the impeachment process as a weapon of partisan political battle, rather than as the means to defend the Constitution our Framers meant it to be,” the complaint added.
Martin said that because the process had begun improperly ...
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Breaking: 40 Conservative Groups File Ethics Complaint Against Nancy Pelosi
