FOUR NEW REASONS FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
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…
…Trump’s list of impeachable offenses is growing. Normal congressional hearings are not working because he refuses to accept the right of Congress to conduct oversight.
In addition, I think Trump’s dehumanization of migrants is an impeachable offense. I agree with the Oregon Jewish Museum’s holocaust educators that Trump’s policies mimic Nazi-era policies of racial extermination. Therefore, they violate the Constitution. Please speak out and work for an impeachment inquiry. 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…
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR BLUMENAUER AND BONAMICI:
….Trump’s list of impeachable offenses is growing. Normal congressional hearings are not working because he refuses to accept the right of Congress to conduct oversight.
In addition, I think Trump’s dehumanization of migrants is an impeachable offense. I agree with the Oregon Jewish Museum’s holocaust educators that Trump’s policies mimic Nazi-era policies of racial extermination. Therefore they violate the Constitution. Thank you for supporting an impeachment inquiry. Please work hard to convince your colleagues and educate your constituents.
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR DEFAZIO, SCHRADERAND WALDEN:
….Trump’s list of impeachable offenses is growing. Normal congressional hearings are not working because he refuses to accept the right of Congress to conduct oversight.
In addition, I think Trump’s dehumanization of migrants is an impeachable offense. I agree with the Oregon Jewish Museum’s holocaust educators that Trump’s policies mimic Nazi-era policies of racial extermination. Therefore they violate the Constitution. Please support and work for an impeachment inquiry. 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: HELP REGISTER VOTERS
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BACKGROUND:
Some activists are reluctant to call for an impeachment inquiry. If you are one, consider four impeachable offenses committed or surfaced just since mid-May:
- Refusing to discipline Kellyanne Conway for repeatedly violating the Hatch Act.
- Ordering former employees not to testify; or, as with Hope Hicks, sent a DOJ attorney to help her stonewall even simple questions.
- Bypassing Senate advice and consent by appointing long-term “acting” appointees in eight of twenty-three cabinet-level positions.
- Running an immigrant crackdown that ignores laws, a court order, and administrative standards.
- DHS’s Inspector General citedsystematic violations that are putting children and adult immigrants in danger.
- Trump’s DOJ told a court that DHS does not have to give soap or toothbrushes to children at the border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells.
- Our own Oregon Jewish Museum and Center on Holocaust Education just joined a lawsuit stating: “… we are witnessing the federal government adopt and pursue a policy of slow dehumanization of others that has chilling parallels to the early years of the Nazi regime.”
Normal committee investigations aren’t working. Ask your MoCs to push for an impeachment inquiry.
SOURCES:
REFUSAL TO DISCIPLE KELLYANNE CONWAY:
OBSTRUCTS CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES: HTTPS://WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/POWERPOST/FORMER-TRUMP-AIDE-FACES-QUESTIONS-FROM-HOUSE-PANEL-ABOUT-RUSSIA-CONTACTS-HUSH-MONEY-PAYMENTS/2019/06/19/5F8B60DA-9293-11E9-B570-6416EFDC0803_STORY.HTML?UTM_TERM=.3661B16AEA88
BYPASSES SENATE CONFIRMATIONS WITH ACTING CABINET LEVEL APPOINTEES: HTTPS://WWW.SALON.COM/2019/06/19/TRUMPS-ACTING-DEFENSE-SECRETARY-IS-OUT-AND-THIS-CHAOTIC-ADMINISTRATION-PREPARES-FOR-WAR/
INSTITUTES NAZI-LIKE IMMIGRANT POLICIES:
INSPECTOR GENERAL CONCERNS ABOUT EL PASO FACILITY, MAY 19, 2019:
IG CONCERNS AT FOUR FACILITIES, JULY 3, 2019: HTTPS://WWW.OIG.DHS.GOV/SITES/DEFAULT/FILES/ASSETS/2019-06/OIG-19-47-JUN19.PDF
OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION JOIN LAWSUIT: HTTP://WWW.OJMCHE.ORG/APP-NEWS/LAWSUIT-AGAINST-POLICY-OF-SEPARATING-PARENTS-AND-CHILDREN-AT-BORDER
OVERVIEW: REASONS FOR IMPEACHING A PRESIDENT: HTTPS://WWW.THEATLANTIC.COM/MAGAZINE/ARCHIVE/1867/01/THE-CAUSES-FOR-WHICH-A-PRESIDENT-CAN-BE-IMPEACHED/548144/
