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The House Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday. Chairman Derry Nadler, Democrat of New York, made the case for why an impeachment

inquiry was happening with the next election occurring so soon.

We are all aware that the next election is looming, but we cannot wait for the election to address

the present crisis.

The integrity of that election is one of the very things at stake.

The President has shown us his pattern of conduct.

If we do not act to hold him in check now,

President Trump will almost certainly try again to solicit interference in the election for his personal political gain.

Here's what Michael Gerhart, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law had to say via MSNBC.

And I just want to stress that if this, if what we're talking about is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable.

This is precisely the misconduct that the framers created a constitution including impeachment to protect against.

And if there's no action, if Congress concludes, they're going to give a pass to the president

here.

As Professor Carlin suggested earlier,

every other president will say,

okay, then I can do the same thing,

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