Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed changing federal law to specify that a sitting president can be indicted
, even as she indicated she was no closer to moving to impeach President Donald Trump.published Friday, Pelosi argued that despite a Justice Department legal opinion asserting the contrary, “there is nothing any place that says the president should not be indicted.
touched off a heated battle in the halls of Congress, fracturing Democrats over whether the caucus should impeach Trump.of Pelosi’s caucus is in favor of pursuing impeachment, including House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, whose committee has begun proceedings, the speaker has remained adamant that the conditions are not yet ripe.
The California Democrat asserted that any suggestion that it was unconstitutional to indict a sitting president was pure spin. "The founders could never suspect that a president would be so abusive of the Constitution of the United States, that the separation of powers would be irrelevant to him and that he would continue, any president would continue, to withhold facts from the Congress, which part of the constitutional right of inquiry," she said.
“This is in a different class in terms of [Trump's] behavior," she said, noting that Trump himself had appointed the inspector general who deemed the complaint “urgent” and credible to begin with.
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