What may be Robert Mueller’s last public words on his investigation only quickened conversations among Democrats about what to do next, rickklein writes.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that his work has formally concluded and that he’d even prefer not to speak of the matters raised by his investigation again.
For the Democrats seeking the party’s nomination in 2020, the position for the House to go forward with impeachment proceedings is now practically mainstream. Within moments of Mueller’s extraordinary public statement on Wednesday, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Kamala Harris called for Congress to start impeachment proceedings.
Even holdouts on the question – including Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, the two leaders in public polling – acknowledge the fact that that may be where things are headed. He cited longstanding Justice Department policy holding that charging a president with a federal crime would be “unconstitutional,” in his words. And Mueller went on to reference the Constitution in another way that seemed to reference impeachment without saying the word.
In an interview in March, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said impeachment was “not worth it,” and many in her party agreed that it would be a distraction to focus on. Pelosi hasn’t shifted that stance, even as she thanked Mueller Wednesday for providing “a record for future action both in the Congress and in the courts.”
A senior staffer on one campaign, whose candidate has not yet called for impeachment proceedings to begin, wrote to ABC over the weekend, “All of the presidentials are looking for that tipping point when the investigative process hits a dead end and there’s no choice but impeachment. I don’t think we’re quite there yet but getting closer.”
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