The Party-Line Impeachment
The House approved a resolution structuring its impeachment inquiry, in a vote that underscored the implacability of partisanship.
Legally, the passage of a House resolution on the impeachment inquiry on Thursday doesn’t mean much. Democrats have already launched the inquiry, and a federal judge ruled last week that they didn’t need to have a vote.
But it’s not clear that the resolution had much political effect either. The final vote on the resolution was 232–196, almost precisely along partisan lines. The story of the impeachment drama inside Washington politics is one of implacable partisanship. The American people have proved somewhat open-minded—as new evidence has emerged, support for impeachment has increased—and a
