Shameless and Craven

Late Wednesday night, eleven hardcore conservative Republicans and ardent Donald Trump supporters in the House of Representatives introduced a measure to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is responsible for overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal investigation into the President and his circle (details here).

Several of the eleven sit on the House Judiciary Committee, which in an extreme act of partisanship and for much of the last year has attempted to derail Mueller's criminal investigation of Trump. The committee demands to see highly confidential documents relating to the investigation for entirely partisan purposes and with no interest in justice.

As the linked article notes, "it is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for lawmakers to demand documents that are part of an ongoing criminal investigation."

And it is, of course, nothing but a disgusting, shameless, and craven attempt to hide the truth and obstruct justice simply to prop up the deeply corrupt and likely criminal Trump and his administration.

Arguably this is nothing but a publicity stunt and will likely not lead to Rosenstein's impeachment. The Republican House leadership has said they will not support the measure and key GOP members have already gone on the record to say they will vote against it.

And given the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to remove an impeached individual from office, it would die in that house, becaause Republicans only have a slim 51-vote majority and some of them would not support this effort.

Many traditional law-and-order Republicans are disgusted by this craven political stunt. Conservative Republican Jennifer Rubin nicely crystalizes that argument in a column (link here) with the title "The GOP isn’t fit to govern." I highly recommend you read her well written piece.