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Pelosi Ignores DOJ Precedent on Impeachment Question

Pelosi Ignores DOJ Precedent on Impeachment Question
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Minority Leader at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. on Nov. 7, 2018. Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Victoria Toensing
Victoria Toensing
Founding partner of the Washington D.C. law firm diGenova & Toensing, LLP.
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Last fall, Nancy Pelosi pledged to find “common ground” with President Donald Trump and the Republicans once she became House Speaker. Sadly, she abandoned that pledge even before being sworn in. In so doing, she displayed either a flagrant ignorance of or willful blindness to Department of Justice (DOJ) legal rules.

In an NBC interview hours before officially starting her speakership, Pelosi responded to a question about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller could indict Trump while in office: “I think that is an open discussion in terms of the law.”

Victoria Toensing
Victoria Toensing
Founding partner of the Washington D.C. law firm diGenova & Toensing, LLP.
Victoria Toensing, founding partner of the Washington D.C. law firm diGenova & Toensing, LLP, has extensive experience in all three branches of government. She is an internationally-known expert on white collar crime, terrorism, and national security and intelligence matters.
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