House Republicans vote to formalize impeachment inquiry

The deal here is that we’re going to investigate you until we find some basis for investigating you, and if that doesn’t work we’ll just make something up. That’s why we’re The Rule of Law team:

The GOP-led House has approved a Republican resolution to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with a party line vote of 221-212.

All GOP representatives voted to formalize the inquiry, including Rep. Ken Buck who previously said he was leaning against it.

Part of the reason for Wednesday’s vote comes from the White House telling the trio of GOP-led congressional committees leading the investigation that its subpoenas were illegitimate without a formal House vote to authorize the inquiry, reluctant, more moderate Republican lawmakers started to get on board with their party’s investigative efforts.

The vote comes as the president’s son Hunter Biden defied Republican investigator’s subpoena for closed-door testimony and reiterated that he is willing to testify publicly as part of the GOP-led investigation into the president.

But even as the majority of House Republicans rally around the inquiry vote, GOP leadership has made a point to indicate that formalizing the inquiry does not mean impeaching the president is inevitable, even as pressure within the party and among the Republican base grows.

“We’re not going to prejudge the outcome of this because we can’t,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “It’s not a political calculation. We’re following the law and we are the rule of law team and I’m going to hold to that.”

The esoteric text, for you Straussians, is that all Democrat presidents are illegitimate by definition, so as Edmund Burke Lavrentiy Beria once put it, give me the man and I will find the crime.