Republicans in Wisconsin are threatening to impeach a recently elected state Supreme Court justice and raised the possibility of doing the same to the state’s election director.
A Georgia Republican called for impeaching the Fulton County prosecutor who brought racketeering charges against former President Donald Trump. Republicans in the Pennsylvania House have already impeached the top prosecutor in Philadelphia.
None of the targets met the bar traditionally set for impeachment — credible allegations of committing a crime while in office. Their offense: staking out positions legislative Republicans didn’t like.
As Republicans in Congress begin their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the process is calling attention to the increasing use of impeachment in the states as a partisan political weapon rather than as a step of last resort for officeholders believed to have committed a serious offense.
I think you need to take a step back and think about the fact that I heard the same things coming out of the January 6th people the night before. I was on public freakout watching the airplane videos calling for justice and singing patriotic things. I’m not being idealistic, I’m telling you that if this shit worked, we’d have trump as president right now. So thankfully it doesn’t work. We have to get good people in government and shitty people out. We are seeing desperation from the GOP which is going to get really bad before it hopefully gets better. Trump was voted out, very few he’s endorsed have been elected, we are winning some of the court cases. Violence isn’t the answer because that just results in more violence. It’s the very last option.