TRUMP CONTINUES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE AND CONGRESS MUST STOP IT NOW!
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I’m sickened by Trump’s ongoing obstruction of justice, first against the Mueller investigation and now against constitutionally mandated Congressional oversight. A person who ignores his constitutional duties and responsibilities, believes he is above the law, and only last week committed another impeachable offense by ordering his new acting DHS secretary to break the law and promising to pardon him if he did so, does not deserve to be president. I demand that you do everything in your power to hold him accountable and bring him to justice. Thank you.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I’m sickened by Trump’s ongoing obstruction of justice, first against the Mueller investigation and now against constitutionally mandated Congressional oversight. A person who ignores his constitutional duties and responsibilities, believes he is above the law, and only last week committed another impeachable offense by ordering his new acting DHS secretary to break the law and promising to pardon him if he did so, does not deserve to be president. I demand that you do everything in your power to hold him accountable and bring him to justice. Thank you.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
Pass along this action alert, especially to friends in Red states. Tell them to KEEP CALLING!
BACKGROUND:
Infuriated that Congress dares carry out its constitutional duty to hold Executive accountable, Trump’s trying to obstruct all congressional oversight, just like he obstructed Mueller’s probe.
As Mueller makes clear, obstruction-of-justice law reaches all corrupt conduct capable of preventing justice from occurring, regardless of means employed. It requires corrupt intent, obstructive conduct, sufficient nexus to desired outcome
- “Obstructer” can satisfy corrupt intent, even if committed no underlying crime
- Multiple attempts to stymie investigation enough—if done to prevent, such things as (1) further scrutiny of his and campaign’s conduct, (2) questioning legitimacy of his election, (3) uncovering behavior making him, campaign, or family look bad or guilty of other crimes
- No requirement that obstructive conduct succeed, but only effort made to accomplish the evil purpose—making irrelevant incompetency of attempts or subordinates’ refusal to carry out orders
Mueller describes Trump assaulting rule of law, attempting to manipulate justice system, dangling pardons to induce perjury, putting own personal interests before those of nation’s security. A President that openly threatens integrity of justice system and says has unlimited power to continue doing so must be stopped. To protect our democracy and constitution, Congress must do that now.
SOURCES:
The 10 episodes of potential Trump obstruction listed in the Mueller report
