By Katie Pavlich| Townhall.Com
Source: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Speaking during a House Judiciary Committee hearing
Wednesday morning, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley
called out Democrats and fellow members of the panel for moving forward with
impeachment because "everyone is mad."
“I get it. You're mad. The president's mad. My Republican
friends are mad. My Democratic friends are mad. My wife is mad. My kids are
mad. Even my dog seems mad and Luna is a golden-doodle and they don't get mad.
So, we're all mad. Where has it taken us? Will a slipshod impeachment make us
less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every
future administration? That is why this is wrong...it's wrong because this is
not how you impeach an American president," Turley argued, adding that the
evidence Democrats are using is severely lacking, the process is rushed and
that a number of witnesses haven't been subpoenaed.
"I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards
to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds
solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among
modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary
record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. That does
not bode well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply
and, at times, bitterly divided,” he said.
And by the way, Turley isn't a Republican and voted
against President Trump in 2016.
“I'm not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against
him. My personal and political views of President Trump are irrelevant to my
impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote," he
continued. “As I have previously written, such misuses of impeachment would
convert our process into a type of no-confidence vote of Parliament.
Impeachment has become an impulse buy item.
