Reply #40: let's review carefully.

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I posted that DK had chosen to introduce a resolution setting forth specific articles of impeachment rather than a resolution that called on the House Judiciary Committee to conduct an inquiry and report back with recommendations on articles of impeachment (the original post in this thread). I pointed out that this was inconsistent with historical precedent, especially recent historical precedent, citing the examples of the resolutions that started the impeachment process against Nixon and Clinton.

You responded with a post (#19) that responded: "First, he is not the Judiciary Committee, nor a subcommittee -- hence he could not issue what they have in the past. Second, he followed the route that previous individuals in congress have; for more examples, read John Nichol's "The Genius of Impeachment."

I responded that you are wrong. I will admit that I didn't realize that your assertion was that DK couldn't do something because he wasnt a committee or subcommitte -- I assumed that what you were trying to say was that he couldn't do it because he wasn't on the committee or subcommitte. Accepting what you said at face value, it is true, but bizarrely irrelevant. The point is that DK could've put on the "table" a resolution, like the ones used in past impeachments, that called for the Judiciary Committee to conduct an inquiry and to report back to the full House regarding articles of impeachment. I conceded that might not have been any more successful, but I think its odd that he would adopt a strategy that is inconsistent with how the process has worked most in past presidential impeachments. And the fact is that, as I asserted, the recent historical precedent is for impeachment inquiries to start with the authorization of a Judiciary inquiry by the full House, an undeniable fact. (I subsequently pointed out that the Andrew JOhnson impeachment also started that way, meaning that every presidential impeachment effort in US history that has gone anywhere has started the same way -- the way DK chose not to go.)

Now, since I have quoted your post in full, I think things are completely clear. Even accepting what you wrote at face value, you're still wrong.