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Well now. That went about the way observers had predicted it would go.<\/p>\n

Almost all House Democrats voted today in favor of a congressional resolution to proceed with an impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump; all House Republicans voted against it. One former<\/em> Republican who’s now an independent cast his vote in favor of the measure.<\/p>\n

What happens now?<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives will proceed with its inquiry into whether the president committed impeachable offenses by soliciting a foreign government for personal political help and\/or whether he has sought to cover up that allegation. Let’s toss in an abuse of power allegation and an obstruction of justice charge as well.<\/p>\n

Republicans who voted “no” have said they don’t want the inquiry. Democrats favor it looking more deeply into these disturbing allegations.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called today’s vote a sad day for the country. It is all of that \u2026 and much more.<\/p>\n

It is going to produce public hearings. It will enable the president’s legal team to cross exam witnesses. It will drag into full public view all the things that have been said in private, behind closed doors as House members deposed witnesses.<\/p>\n

It’s all been legal. It’s all being done according to the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Today’s vote, moreover, should have stemmed phony GOP complaints about there being a star chamber aspect to this inquiry. It won’t stop Republicans from seeking to protect a president of their own party.<\/p>\n

They will yap about politics driving the inquiry while invoking their own brand of politics to block it. Do you see the irony in that?<\/p>\n

The public portion of this sober process does mean at a minimum that the fecal matter is about to hit the fan. The remaining question for me — and millions of other Americans — is whether any Republicans will be persuaded that Donald J. Trump has broken the law and should be removed from office.<\/p>\n

I am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n\n

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