The outgoing congressman included eight charges against Hegseth, largely related to the Iran war.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Monday reintroduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S. war with Iran.
A House vote on the articles is expected as soon as this week.
Massie, a longtime Trump critic who’s retiring from Congress at the end of the year, brought eight charges against Hegseth, accusing him of “waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat.”
Publicly hang him
That’s fine as a start but it doesn’t address the root cause. Rs have a short window to disavow maga and support impeaching and convicting the felon in the oval office. Anything short of that shows they aren’t serious about wanting to fix the damage they helped cause.
I don’t think anyone would be like “oh that guy with the SS tattoo was being coerced into forwarding a fascist agenda, thank god he’s finally able to break free”
Republicans do not have a short window to disavow MAGA. They were disavowed by MAGA a decade ago, and they were already fascist puppets by that point anyways, he just emboldened them.
I frankly cannot imagine how you can even be slightly willing to give them any kind of forgiveness or formalities at this point in time, it’s frankly bewildering. It’s like seeing people give handshakes to confederate soldiers in the middle of the civil war knowing fully that they just want to keep being slavers and oligarchs.
Edit: and they obviously don’t give a shit about fixing the damage!!! This has been in their plans since fucking Reagan
Because 1/3 of the nation isn’t going to change its worldview overnight, and very few of them a criminals in a way anything can be quickly done about. The GOP isn’t going to just dissolve and go away, America will always have a conservative block. However, damage control RIGHT NOW means a very tentative olive branch to the Congresspersons that have been the least vocal MAGA supporters, certainly including the few like Massie that have, despite towing the Republican line, at least been outspoken about executive overreach.
His objection is the war, good enough for me. Who else can we find with objections? Gather them, use them, let them hope that by cooperating they may get to retain power. Dragging the Overton Window back to the left should be the first objective. Show the American People that the law is The Law, no matter who broke it. Start earning back the working class, enough of them are stupid enough to, in this ideal scenario, completely allow themselves to forget “Better a Russian than a Demoncrat”, and pretend they’ve always been blue.
I wish that weren’t the best I think we should hope for, but in reality a socialist America is still very long way off. And I’d like for trans kids to get to play sports in the interim.
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Anything short of that shows they aren’t serious about wanting to fix the damage they helped cause.
Serious? Since when do they even have a pretense of wanting to fix that damage?
The war in Iran is getting a lot of the blame for Republican losses, and this is a chance for the losers to get some revenge on the way out.
All they have to do is put that clown on the stand under oath and he’ll destroy himself. Nobody in this administration is operating above a mid-wit level. Couple that with all the closetcase macho insecurity shit and you’ve got an implosion with minimal poking. I could make him lose his shit, but they won’t let me ask the questions.
… investigate and prosecute after impeachment
To elaborate on what Catoblepas said, impeachment triggers the trial, which enables discovery. The Senate then brings indictments forward, and 2/3rds vote is required for a verdict of removal from office.
I want to note that this is not like normal trials where a unanimous jury is necessary.
Upon removal from office, additional investigations into criminal acts can be accomplished as they no longer hold protections of the state.
There’s no double jeopardy for impeachment. It’s not a criminal trial; it’s a political one.
If this one fails, the dems can try again in a couple months. Hopefully they won’t need to.
The voters clearly don’t approve of Kegsbreath, Republicans. Do something to show that you have your own brains.
Massie pointed that out in an article I read and also pointed out his is impeachment lite, once the D’s are in control. of the House, its very likely they go in much much harder if this hasn’t been dealt with. I assume that was an attempt to encourage his fellow GOP-ers :) to get on board.
And if the Republicans do it now, the Democrats don’t get credit for it next Congress. Seems like a smart play.
Maisse isn’t in the next congress, that’s why he’s doing it now.
But yeah, if it doesn’t pass now it almost certainly will in two months.
I’ve six beers in my fridge, and one has his name on it.
