In 1970, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford attempted to initiate impeachment proceedings against Associate Justice William O. Douglas; the attempt included a 90-minute speech on the House floor.[22] The House did not vote to initiate proceedings.
Minority leader. As such he had no power, right or ability to initiate any proceedings on his own.
Neither does the Speaker. Article 1 Section 2
LOL. Don't ever change. We need the laughs.
Nothing in the Constitution indicates you can use a.resolution to start impeachment proceedings either.
What it does say is the House(the entire body) has the sole power of impeachment.
And that they can establish their own rules for how to do it.
In this case, by hearings restricted to the designated committee members of both parties.
Because the Constitution allows them to do that, no matter how much you pretend to have an argument.
They and them?
You are getting closer.
Still not there, just yet.
You remain a child playing childish games, unable to admit when you have made a mistake, as ever.
I didn’t make any mistake. The Constitution is pretty clear.
It is, in this regard.
Too bad you keep ignoring it.
The House gets to set the rules for how they
explore the events prior to their deciding whether or not to vote on impeachment. That includes whether and when to have a vote about inquiries.
And you don't like that. We get it.
But they followed the law. The inquiries were legal, just as the judge you choose to ignore said they were. And if the whole House votes to have
public hearings, now, after the closed session hearings, that will be like the bulk of the times that impeachment has been considered.
And they were legal, too, even if some of them were as stupid and asinine as your faux-debate points.
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