Bucking trend, Golden opposes House impeachment inquiry

While more and more of his Democratic colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives call for Congress to begin looking into the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump, a first-term Maine Democrat took a stand in opposition this week.

U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a 2nd District Democrat from Lewiston, said he believes doing so “would unleash an era of even greater divisiveness in our country — one from which we might not return.”

Golden is one of the few members of the House from New England who is not seeking a move toward impeachment. Among those who have spoken in favor of taking that step is U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a 1st District Democrat.

Pingree called the report from Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, “a turning point” that convinced her the time had come to begin an impeachment inquiry.

Read more: https://www.sunjournal.com/2019/07/29/jared-golden-bucks-trend-to-oppose-house-impeachment-inquiry/
(Lewiston Sun Journal)