{"id":10875,"date":"2017-05-15T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:48:48","slug":"harvard-constitutional-scholar-need-trump-impeachment-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/harvard-constitutional-scholar-need-trump-impeachment-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Constitutional Scholar: Need Trump Impeachment Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/justice7.jpg\" data-wp-pid=\"11592\" alt=\"impeach trump\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" \/><b>HuffingtonPost<\/b> &#8211; A top Harvard constitutional law professor is calling for an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, branding the president\u2019s firing of FBI Director James Comey as an \u201cobvious effort to interfere with a probe involving national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To \u201cwait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation\u2019s fate to the whims of an authoritarian leader,\u201d Professor Laurence Tribe wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on Saturday. Tribe added that Trump\u2019s conduct \u201cstrongly suggests that he poses a danger to our system of government.\u201d<br \/>\n<!-- TAG END { date: 05\/15\/17 } --><br \/>\nAfter Comey\u2019s firing last week, Tribe joined the legal advisory board of Impeach Trump Now, a campaign pushing for an impeachment probe into the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now up to Congress to save the Constitution by initiating impeachment proceedings,\u201d Tribe said in a statement Friday when he joined the board. \u201cTrump can\u2019t say \u2018You\u2019re fired\u2019 to the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/laurence-triber-impeachment_us_59178898e4b0031e737e0f78\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffingtonPost &#8211; A top Harvard constitutional law professor is calling for an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, branding the president\u2019s firing of FBI Director James Comey as an \u201cobvious effort to interfere with a probe involving national security.\u201d To \u201cwait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":11592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,124,76,123,107,127,126,106,105,77],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-news","tag-calltoaction","tag-dumptrump","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-muslimban","tag-nofascistusa","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-theresistance","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard Constitutional Scholar: Need Trump Impeachment Probe &#8226; 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