Pelosi says she wants to see Trump 'in prison' but not impeached – live

The House speaker is reportedly under pressure from the judiciary committee chair to impeach the presidentSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.58pm BST Law professor Laurence Tribe is suggesting impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump regardless of whether the House will ultimately vote to impeach him or the Senate to convict and remove him from office.The House at the end of its inquiry could choose to send impeachment articles to the Senate – even if there’s virtually no chance of conviction in the Republican-controlled body – or to skip impeachment and pass a sense of the House resolution condemning the president, he writes in a Washington Post op-ed: “By resolving now to pursue such a path, always keeping open the possibility that its inquiry would unexpectedly lead to the president’s exoneration, the House would be doing the right thing as a constitutional matter. It would be acting consistent with its overriding obligation to establish that no president is above the law, all the while keeping an eye on the balance of political considerations without setting the dangerous precedent that there are no limits to what a corrupt president can get away with as long as he has a compliant Senate to back him. And pursuing this course would preserve for all time the tale of this uniquely troubled presidency.” It’s not a modest proposal—it’s brilliant. Nothing in the Constitution dictates the procedure by which the House decides whether to pass a bill of impeachment. No reason why it can’t hold a trial for the American people to see. Let the chips fall where they may. https://t.co/VW0K0dvoq3If there is an impeachment inquiry, of course there will be impeachment. Will Nadler not schedule an impeachment vote at the end of it? Will the committee not approve it? Will the House vote it down? Any of those scenarios is a political disaster for Democrats. 2.47pm BST Michigan Republican John James has announced a second run for US Senate.James, an Iraq war veteran and businessman, will run against Sen. Gary Peters, the Detroit News reports. Continue reading…
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