gentleman from georgia mr. johnson. the gentleman from georgia mr. johnson is recognized. thank you, mr. speaker. i was not among those who supported impeachment before the ukraine but i call for impeachment today because our president is as we speak abusing his power and placing himself above the law. president trump s attempt to sabotage the 2020 election is a clear and present danger of our democracy. more americans support impeachment today than at any time since richard nick nixon s final weeks in office. we know it s wrong to enlist the help of foreigners and interfering in our elections. we know it s wrong to cheat and we know what is at stake. it s not just that our elections were attacked, our elections are under attack right now. the very day the judiciary committee voted out articles of impeachment, president trump
judiciary committee twice before and this third time brings me no joy. president nixon attempted to corrupt the president. his agents broke into the democratic party headquarters to get a leg up on the election and then like president trump he tried to cover it up. then he resigned. this is even worse. he used the foreign government to do it. the u.s. aid to fight the russians as leverage solely to benefit his own political campaign. george washington would be astonished since he warned against the insidious wild of foreign influence, confluence. the direct evidence is on the president hasn t offered any evidence to the contrary. these actions constitute grounds for the presidential impeachment. what is before us is a serious abuse of power and instruction of congress. these abuses strike at the heart of our constitution. the president s unconstitutional
president nixon testified. they may have aided and relevant knowledge to this investigation and simply put, it s administration has engaged in a wholesale obstruction of congress and that s exactly why we are considering not just one, but two articles of impeachment before the house today. every member of this body has a responsibility to uphold our constitution, to defend our republic and when necessary to hold the executive branch accountable. and we are exercising that responsibility today. so with that and therefore i will vote yes on both articles because that s what the constitution requires and what it demands and i yelled back. the gentleman from georgia. mr. speaker, i would have never thought the department of investigation was used as a money revenue plot but one thing is true, it was a loser.
just this term we had justice gorsuch reaching across the aisle i grew up with republicans picking so-called conservatives and then seeing those so-called conservatives turning into moderates. or, justice souter. they always we never figured out, growing up, jon meachum, why justices would always grow left, but never grow right. but they would always grow, they would always become more moderate or liberal. to combine what nick nixon in 41, it was left wing mission creep. i mean it s justice gorsuch joined the liberals on the court in a deportation case for example, turning against donald trump. this term you noted that the chief justice essentially rewrote the statute from the bench in order to preserve the aca and we had this cake baking case, a prominent case for liberals, a values case that was a 7-2 decision because it was
what s going to stop we ve seen those numbers. and i m not knocking anybody. the white voter, republican voter who hasn t gone to college tends to be a very big trump voter, in terms of just numbers. i m not making the elitist attitude. it s just a fact. down south, they ll find some people that will meet that description and like him. nick nixon once told pat buchanan, my friend, i dare say that, that whenever you hear about a stop-x movement, bet on x. if we have a stop-trump movement, bet on trump. you know where the money the establishment money that wouldn t go to trump if he s the nominee, that will go to senate races. because if trump is the nominee, you ve got to hold the senate. and i think of the eight most competitive senate races, seven are in presidential swing states. ohio, pennsylvania, colorado i can t actually name them all, but new hampshire, that s four. there s a big risk for republicans that trump runs,