things happening here. we re also seeing attorneys benefit financially through fund-raising efforts and others in arizona and michigan by spreading this misinformation. it s become a challenging election results you don t agree with. we came in the 2020 election cycle. a strategy for undermining the public s faith in our democracy but also a industry of those trying to gain fame and influence, maybe political power, and raise money and build wealth off of lying to people. so there s a lot of accountability that needs to happen. this is one of those pieces, particularly for those attorneys. but political accountability is important as well and voters have the ability to hold leaders accountable who lied to them about their democracy at the ballot boxes. so we need to seek accountability in every way we can, because this cannot become the norm in our democracy. we have to respect the will of the voters, not trying to overturn it if we disagree with the results. let s listen to what pre
spreading this misinformation. it s become challenging election results you don t agree with became in the 2020 election cycle a strategy for undermining the public s faith in our democracy but also a cottage industry of those trying to gain fame, influence, political power and raise money and build wealth off of lying to people. so there s a lot of accountability that needs to happen. this is one of those pieces particularly for those attorneys. but political accountability is important as well, and voters have the ability to hold leaders accountable who lie to them about their democracy at the ballot box. so we need to seek accountability in every way we can, because this cannot become the norm in our democracy. we have to respect the will of the voters, not try to overturn it if we disagree with the results. listen to what president biden said today about what the trump lawyers were up to. more than 80 judges including those appointed by my
the world is waiting to see if we will hold ourselves to the democratic principles we there cyst others up hold. when we demonstrate our ability to peacefully hold our leaders accountable, we have an opportunity to show the world how a mature democracy handles the crisis. we have the opportunity to show the world our democracy remains strong and it is this president that an anomaly. we have an opportunity to demonstrate in the world and in the united states no one is above the law including president trump. this is why we must adopt articles of impeachment and take the first step towards relieving our nation and the world of this presidency. i yield back. that was democratic congresswoman karen bass of california making the case for impeachment. we ll continue to dip in and out throughout the markup. i should tell you soon i ll be joined by laurenance tribe who s one of the lawyers been asked to
tool available to us, impeachment. this is not a coup, and it s irresponsible to label a constitutional process a coup. it is the responsibility of this committee to follow the constitution. the world is waiting to see if we will hold ourselves to the democratic principles we there cyst others up hold. when we demonstrate our ability to peacefully hold our leaders accountable, we have an opportunity to show the world how a mature democracy handles the crisis. we have the opportunity to show the world our democracy remains strong and it is this president that an anomaly. we have an opportunity to demonstrate in the world and in the united states no one is above the law including president trump. this is why we must adopt articles of impeachment and take the first step towards relieving our nation and the world of this presidency. i yield back. that was democratic congresswoman karen bass of california making the case for impeachment. we ll continue to dip in and out throughout the mar