Cleveland activists, others to host Impeach Trump rally June 15, 2019 on steps of of Cleveland City Hall as part of a national day of action led nationally by MoveOn.org....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND,Ohio-Led by Women's March Cleveland, Refusefacism.org, the Carl Stokes Brigade, and the Black Women's Political Action Committee, greater Cleveland activist groups will rally at 11 am on June 15, 2019 on the steps of Cleveland City Hall next to the Free Stamp in downtown Cleveland as part of a national day of protest calling for an inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the event spearheaded at the national level by such groups as MoveOn.org, Women's March, By the People and some 20 other organizations. (Call (216) 659-0473 for more information).
Speakers include Black Women's PAC President Elaine Gohlstin, and activists Cheryl Lessin, Norm Carl, Brenda Adrine and Steve Holecko, chair of the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus.
Holecko will speak on the theme of impeachment, the other speakers slated to address the president's policies across the board including immigration reform, foreign policy, education, reproductive rights, housing and employment, and Civil and human rights.
Songsters Asia Ross and Arthur Blakey will perform, Ross singing the hit 'This Girl is On Fire,' and Blakey singing an anti- President Trump song.
Cleveland is a largely Black major American city and activists say the president has disregarded impoverished urban areas choosing, through is tax and other policies, to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Dubbed #ImpeachTrump Day of Action, organizers say events will occur in venues in 100 cities across the country, not only in Cleveland, but in Atlanta, Massachusetts, and Minnesota, U.S. Sen, and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota Rep. Rashida Tlaib poised to do a reading of impeachment while other activities range from public protests like in Cleveland to coffee shop gatherings and community forums that discuss the impeachment topic.
National organizers say they now have some 133 events planned, up from some 75 just last week.
Led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leaders have downplayed impeachment, angering the progressive left, Saturday's protests and other events aimed at giving the public and pro-impeachment proponents a forum to speak out on the public policy matter.
The growing desire for impeachment, with national polls showing that nearly a quarter of Americans approve of it, comes as the 2020 presidential election nears and a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls seek the nomination in hopes of ousting President Trump from office,Trump a Republican and a real estate mogul who upset Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to take the presidency in 2016.
The recent controversy follows the controversial release of the Mueller report, the official report documenting the findings and conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 United States presidential election.
An NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist Poll finds that some 22% of Americans want impeachment proceedings to ensue against the sitting president while another 25% want an investigation into potential wrongdoing/
The president says it is all a political witch hunt, though the Muller report did not exonerate him, nor his entourage, from any malfeasance
But not all of the Dems agree with Pelosi's stance that impeachment proceedings will shine a negative light on the country and might ultimately back fire, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, a Youngstown area Democrat and presidential candidate, last week publicly calling for Trump to be impeached, and Rep Marcia Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes parts of Cleveland and Akron and several of Cleveland's eastern suburbs, speaking this week on the House floor and demanding an impeachment investigation.
Whether any impeachment process proves politically fatal to the president remains to be seen, and is unlikely, pundits say.
Impeachment exist under constitutional law and is a two-step process at the federal level.
The House of Representatives must first pass, by a simple majority of those present and voting, articles of impeachment, and then the Senate must do the same.
But it is only then that charges are assessed, similar to an felony indictment on criminal charges, and such charges do not mean that a president will be removed from office, which takes a conviction, and some pundits still argue that a president cannot be convicted of high crimes or misdemeanors while in office. .
Pelosi says the impeachment process is more complicated than most people think, some of her Democratic congressional colleges like Reps Fudge and Ryan pushing for an impeachment inquiry anyway.
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