How Civil Rights History Can Guide Decision about Impeachment

Tim Libretti, PhD
5 min readJun 2, 2019

Democrats are clearly divided on the issue of initiating an impeachment process against President Donald Trump.

At last count, fifty-one House Democrats and one maverick Republican, Michigan’s Justin Amash, favored moving forward with impeachment.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to focus the media’s attention on the other 187 Democrats still proceeding cautiously.

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Tim Libretti, PhD

Professor of Literature, Political Economy enthusiast, Dad, always thinking about the optimal world