Can Maxine Waters Be Impeached and Removed From Congress Over Confrontational Comments?
On 4/20/21 at 2:39 PM EDT
The
New York Post editorial board on Sunday called for California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters to be impeached from office over remarks related to the Derek Chauvin trial, raising the question as to whether or not a member of Congress can be removed this way.
In the editorial, the
Post accused Waters of inciting violence by encouraging her followers to protest and become more confrontational if Chauvin – the police officer on trial for killing George Floyd – is not convicted of murder. We ve got to stay in the streets, and we ve got to demand justice, Waters said during a rally on Sunday. We re looking for a guilty verdict. And if we don t, we cannot go away, she added. We ve got to get more confrontational.
When we serve as jurors, we are legally obligated to decide innocence or guilt based on the instructions to the jury. We don’t get to declare instructions we do not like to be unconstitutional, do whatever satisfies our own wants and then declare that defying the court’s instructions is serving the Constitution.
Watching videotapes of a mob storming the U.S. Capitol made Sen. Murkowski "angry," "disturbed" and "sad," she told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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