BostonGlobe – Should President Trump be investigated over whether he has violated the Constitution? Two Brookline residents will ask Town Meeting next month to support a Congressional probe into Trump’s business and financial dealings.
If approved, the nonbinding resolution would call on the the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether there is sufficient evidence to impeach the nation’s 45th president.
Lisa Kolarik, one of the petitioners, told the Globe she decided to take action against Trump because Trump’s business activities could interfere with his decisions as president.
“Why should someone run roughshod over the Constitution, while everyone else looks the other way?” said Kolarik.
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.