Schatz Statement on President Trump

Statement

"The president is breaking statutory and constitutional law every day, and he is abusing his inherent power as president with regularity, enthusiasm, and most troublingly, impunity. He and his legal team argue that a sitting president's authorities are so vast that they literally transcend the law. They argue that the Congress has a remedy for this criminality and defiance -- the impeachment process. If that is their view, so be it. On behalf of the people who elected us, we must formalize and accelerate the impeachment process so that Congress, by exercising its responsibility under Article 1 of the Constitution, can provide some measure of accountability.

"This isn't just essential for now, but so that no future president of either party believes that it is possible, practicable, or wise to defy the law, Congress' constitutional role, and the American people."

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