[BREAKING] Another City to Vote on Trump Impeachment
BostonGlobe – Memo from Cambridge to Washington, D.C.: It’s time for Trump to go.
The City Council in the famously liberal bastion on the Charles plans to consider a resolution next week asking the US House to begin an impeachment investigation into allegations that President Trump violated the Constitution.
If the resolution passes, Cambridge would become the first city in the state and the fifth in the nation to call for Trump’s removal. A copy of the measure would be sent to the local congressional delegation.
Vice Mayor Marc McGovern filed the resolution and has backing of a few other councilors, including Nadeem Mazen and Jan Devereux. “Now is the time to speak up for American values, good taste, and justice,” Mazen said.
A national effort calling for Trump’s impeachment was brought to McGovern’s attention by a local advocacy organization, CAST — Cambridge Area Stronger Together.
“It’s important especially now when the White House is attacking vulnerable people in our city . . . that local cities say, ‘We are not OK with this,’ ” McGovern said. “We have grave concerns about Mr. Trump.”
Johanna Schulman, a Cambridge resident and member of CAST’s coordinating committee, emphasized this is not a partisan issue. It is about the Emoluments Clause, which states the president cannot receive financial benefits, domestic or foreign, other than his salary. She said Trump’s business interests and hotels run afoul of this clause.
IfP announces the release of the Trump Formal Impeachment Petition. This method for impeaching a President uses a rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives (“Jefferson’s Manual”). This document empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves. Our previous versions of this document were merely PDFs that people could download and send in themselves. This left us without the ability to track our progress toward impeaching any particular individual. Upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump, we have released a new version of the document that can be filled out online, and will allow us to track the progress nationwide, and state-by-state, as individuals fill out the petition.
