Updated: 12:01 AM PST January 14, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R – WA 05) was the only representative from the state of Washington to vote against the articles of impeachment brought against President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
All Washington Democratic representatives, along with Republicans Dan Newhouse (R – WA 04) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R – WA 03), voted to impeach President Trump.
Rodgers released a statement explaining her decision shortly after the vote was held. Based on my assessment of Constitutionally-protected speech, I do not believe his words constitute an incitement of violence as laid out in Supreme Court precedent. Further, impeachment is not something for us to take lightly, and the fact that Speaker Pelosi is rushing this process and has chosen not to hold hearings or extend debate on the questions at hand makes me question her motives as nothing more than politics, the statement reads in part.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump for a second time on Wednesday afternoon, in the wake of the rioting from pro-Trump supporters on January 6. The president
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Washington:The US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump by 232 to 197 votes for his role in for inciting last week s deadly Capitol Hill riot, making him the first president in American history to be impeached twice.
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