{"id":199173,"date":"2019-12-18T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/steny-hoyer-i-understand-party-loyalty-ive-never-seen-anything-like-this.html"},"modified":"2019-12-18T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:19:56","slug":"steny-hoyer-i-understand-party-loyalty-ive-never-seen-anything-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/steny-hoyer-i-understand-party-loyalty-ive-never-seen-anything-like-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Steny Hoyer: I Understand Party Loyalty. I\u2019ve Never Seen Anything Like This."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">While we have had strong disagreements with the Trump administration on policy and have been deeply alarmed by this president\u2019s acts of wrongdoing, we pursued an impeachment inquiry this September only after his effort to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election came to light. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Now the case for impeachment is clear. In his willingness to abuse his power, President Trump disregarded the rule of law. Many Democrats will cast difficult and courageous votes, earning themselves a place among those President John Kennedy celebrated in \u201c<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Profiles of Courage<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Republicans of courage and conscience ought to join them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">If House Republicans vote as expected, they will fail to put country first and hold the president accountable. The framers would be the first to remind us that impeachment is an assessment not only of a president\u2019s commitment to the Constitution, but also of our own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Each representative and senator must answer the same question: Will we allow a president \u2014 any president \u2014 to hold himself or herself above the law?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Senators, when they undertake their role as jurors, take an oath to \u201cdo impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.\u201d If the House approves these articles of impeachment today, I urge senators to approach their coming trial with true impartiality, not as Democrats or Republicans, but together as Americans first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">If the Senate abdicates Congress\u2019s power to impeach \u2014 or fails even to hold a serious trial \u2014 history will remember those senators for their failure to set party aside to preserve the rule of law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">There is still a chance for Republicans to summon the courage this moment demands. Not to do so would diminish our democracy and imperil the future of our republic. <\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/18\/opinion\/steny-hoyer-trump-impeachment.html?emc=rss&amp;partner=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we have had strong disagreements with the Trump administration on policy and have been deeply alarmed by this president\u2019s acts of wrongdoing, we pursued an impeachment inquiry this September only after his effort to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election came to light. Now the case for impeachment is clear. In his willingness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-199173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}