THIS LAWLESS PRESIDENT IS SHREDDING OUR CONSTITUTION
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…
Congress must act to hold Trump accountable. On several fronts, Trump is trampling on our Constitution by obstructing Congress’s duty to oversee the presidency. He’s doing it so that he can escape impeachment. We need to an impeachment inquiry now to document his illegal and unconstitutional acts. No one in America is above the law.
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…
FOR WALDEN: This is the time to put country over party. You need to defend the Constitution and the authority of Congress as a coequal branch of government. We need an impeachment inquiry to uncover the facts. Voting against this would be an unconscionable act.
FOR ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIVES:
Congress must act to hold Trump accountable. On several fronts, Trump is trampling on our Constitution by obstructing Congress’s duty to oversee the presidency. He’s doing it so that he can escape impeachment. We need to an impeachment inquiry now to document his illegal and unconstitutional acts. No one in America is above the law.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
BACKGROUND:
The Founding Fathers, fearful of tyrants emerging, divided government into three equal branches so that if one went rogue, the others could restrain the miscreant. But on several fronts, Trump is obstructing Congress’s duty to hold the president accountable.
Trump’s administration has defied more than 30 Congressional requests for information and a half dozen administration officials have refused to testify. Trump’s goal is to block the public’s access to information and delay his day of reckoning.
On Monday, the Secretary of the Treasury refused to comply, for the third time, with Congress’s request for Trump’s tax returns. This violates a law that explicitly gives Congress the power to subpoena anyone’s tax records and is not subject to White House interference.
Last week, information surfaced that Attorney General William Barr misled the public by saying there was NO OBSTRUCTION. And this week, nearly 700 former federal prosecutors agreed that, if Trump was not president, he’d face “multiple” felony charges of obstruction of justice.
Now Congress is requesting that Mueller testify. And like clockwork, Trump tweeted “Mueller should not testify.”
No one is above the law. Obstructing Congress is a Constitutional violation and must be at the top of an impeachment inquiry.
