Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and a growing number of GOP senators have reservations about whether an impeachment inquiry into President Biden would move forward in the Senate.
Tuberville said the Senate would have to “wait and see what happens,” noting that the upper chamber “couldn’t get the votes” to convict Biden in an impeachment trial.
“You don’t bring a vote to the floor unless you are pretty sure that you can get the amount of votes that you need,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW” on Tuesday. “I know that wouldn’t make it to anywhere over here in the Senate. That probably wouldn’t even — wouldn’t even let it make it to the floor. But again, this is all up to the House. We got enough problems going on right now.”
“I’m not for impeachment unless it is ironclad,” he said. “As I said about President Trump, if you’re gonna come after a former president or president, let’s not waste time. Let’s know the truth. Let’s be able to bring it out. Let the American people know.”
“We got enough problems up here right now without going through an impeachment process, but they’ll do the right thing,” he said, speaking of the House. “Hopefully, we just find out what’s going on, and American people get the truth.”
Impeachment should be rare; if this impeachment moves forward, 40% of the impeachments in US history will have been over Ukraine.
OPINION
Finding out what Biden did might be enough.
The one thing I will point out about the impeachment inquiry and why it’s good is that it gives them subpoena power. That’s a big deal.
Why don’t the House and Senate look at impeaching him and Mayorkas for opening our borders illegally? The issues they want to impeach Mr. Biden for were in his role as Vice President, but what about his actions now? Aside from breaking immigration law, he has imposed “rule” after “rule” that qualifies as law. He oversteps, and the gerontology in Congress does nothing. Biden circumvents the Supreme Court, and we hear crickets.
Yesterday, a reporter mentioned Speaker McCarthy moving ahead with the Biden impeachment to John Fetterman. Mr. Fetterman is a Democrat US Senator, and you can watch his reaction on the clip.
He was dressed down as usual. He attends the Senate sessions dressed like the janitor.
thanks to the democraps we are now a banana republic. in the future any time there is a democrap president and a republican house majority the need to impeach him no matter what. make up and excuse just as the demoshits did to trump.
The author of this article is right. The Senate won’t be impeaching anyone since that is not what they do. Duh, just duh.
Try to follow the context instead of making a junk remark.
STUPID UNEDUCATED MEDIA REPORTER: The Senate does NOT impeach ANYONE.
You are a stupid commenter. The senate holds an impeachment inquiry. You understand the context, and your distraction failed. What is the purpose of the capital letters, is it to add force to your empty post?
the senate does not impeach. the house impeaches and the senate holds trial to remove or not remove. once the house votes to impeach, impeachment has been done. if the senate does not remove he is still impeached.
you are correct. once it gets to the senate impeachment has already been done. the senate holds trial to remove or not remove.
To think the corrupt Senate would impeach a corrupt President is the height of naiveté. They’ll huff and puff and then run and hide.
What are you commenting on? No one here thinks the senate would impeach Biden.
Where is the naiveté you are pretending to attack?
Regardless of that, the house has a duty to impeach, and you will not address that.
The Senate does not impeach — that is the House’s job. Impeachment is the equivalent of an indictment. The Senate tries the case with a delegated House member serving as the prosecutor.
Who here said the senate impeaches? Sometimes impeachment is a term used in context, which is frequently done in English.
The author of this fine site is well aware of what you stated.
After Biden sent billions of dollars to Ukraine, numerous Democrat politicians rushed to Ukraine to “show their support”. What if the impeachment subpoenas reveal unanticipated corruption in the US Congress in addition to the Presidency?
That is a good point. At a minimum, federal agencies covered up major Biden crimes. The congress has Constitutional authority and responsibility to oversee those agencies. There may be a paper trail of which members and committees saw the hundreds of suspicious activity reports on the Bidens.