HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday [12-5-19] that the House of Representatives would begin drafting impeachment articles against President Trump, pushing ahead with a rapid timetable that could set the stage for a vote before Christmas to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors. Invoking the words of the Constitution and the nation’s founders, Ms. Pelosi said it had become clear over two months of investigation that Mr. Trump had violated his oath of office by pressing a foreign power for help in the 2020 election. Allowing Mr. Trump to continue in office without remedy, she said, would come at ‘the peril of our republic’…Ms. Pelosi’s announcement came as the House Judiciary Committee laid out the next steps for its formal impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump.”
–Nicholas Fandos, “Pelosi Says House Will Draft Impeachment Charges Against Trump,” The New York Times online, December 5, 2019