Impeachment. What Is It & What Are The Polls Saying?

Overview 

This past week House Democrats announced they would be gathering their case for impeachment against President Trump (R). This all came about from a whistleblower report from someone inside the US intelligence service. While Democrats have been trying to create a case for impeachment with the Muller hearings, much of that momentum was lost without party leaderships backing. Nancy Pelosi (D) has come out in support for impeachment due to these recent revelations and has given the various investigatory committees the go-ahead for creating a case for impeachment. If you are not caught up on what is going on both with the whistleblower complaint or the Ukraine call CNN does a great job of laying out both in this article (you can also read my most recent blog post to see the full transcript (not verbatim): https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/09/politics/whistleblower-complaint-annotated/

What Is Impeachment?

Article 2: Section 4

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

"Article I § 2 of the United States Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach (make formal charges against) and Article I § 3 gives the Senate the sole power to try impeachments."-https://litigation.findlaw.com/legal-system/presidential-impeachment-the-legal-standard-and-procedure.html

Basically what they are saying here is that it is the House Of Representatives is charged with coming up with grounds for impeachment and voting however, the Senate has the power to challenge impeachment charges.

What Do Americans Think?

Source: NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll

Here we can see that Americans are split in their opinion of impeachment. Most Americans are waiting to see the case that the House will put together. Democrats seem to be fully invested in the impeachment process and many pundits say if it fails it will gravely hurt the party for many elections cycles to come. 

The Smithsonian Magazine does a great job at laying out the impeachment process and history: If you are not caught up on what is going on both with the whistleblower complaint or the Ukraine call CNN does a great job of laying out both in this article (you can also read my most recent blog post to see the full transcript (not verbatim): https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/09/politics/whistleblower-complaint-annotated/

Tell me what you think! Does President Trump deserve to be impeached? Even if you're split on it tell me what you're thinking!