Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries voted on Wednesday to impeach
President Donald Trump. REUTERS
House impeaches
President Trump
COURIER LIFE, JANUARY 15-21, 2021 3
TRUMP’S OUSTER
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Every Democrat Brooklyn
Democrat voted to impeach
President Donald
Trump for the second time,
leaving Republican Nicole
Malliotakis as the only member
of Kings County’s Congressional
delegation to vote
against the indictment.
Members of the nation’s
lower legislative body casted
their historic votes to impeach
the president for the
second time just days after a
violent mob stormed the US
Capitol building, incited by
Trump’s unsubstantiated
claims of widespread voter
fraud in crucial swing states.
Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem
Jeffries took to social media
to say, “Today the House will
impeach President Trump.
For a second time. To protect
the safety and well-being of
the American people.”
Bay Ridge and Staten Island
Rep. Malliotakis, meanwhile,
voted against the measure,
claiming voter fraud
occurred in Pennsylvania
and Arizona, and referring
to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s remarks after President
George W. Bush’s reelection
in the 2004 national
election.
“It is the duty of Congress
to oversee the certifi cation
of electoral votes and taking
the lead of @SpeakerPelosi
in 2005, have robust and respectful
debate. It is not our
duty to simply serve as rubber
stamps,” she tweeted.
Trump will almost certainly
remain in offi ce until
the end of his term on Jan.
20, as the impeachment will
require a two-thirds majority
in the Republican-dominated
US Senate, where the
vast majority of Republicans
oppose the president’s removal.
back calls for impeachment
was disingenuous, Williams
said, due to the vastly different
issues the two groups
were demonstrating for.
“There were people
marching in the streets saying
‘Black Lives Matter’ trying
to raise up the fact that
Black people were dying, unarmed
by police offi cers —
state-sanctioned violence,”
the public advocate said. “If
you saw what happened yesterday
and saw what happened
to people in the Black
Lives Matter movement and
still do not see the disparity
in this country, you are now
willfully ignorant and willfully
complicit in that disparity.”
Police made no arrests
and issued no summons at
Thursday night’s Brooklyn
rally, which also featured
calls from demonstrators to
defund the police, and chants
of “quit your jobs” directed
at uniformed offi cers.
Once outside Senator
Schumer’s apartment, organizers
sent a message to the
Democratic Party leadership
— who are set to assume control
of the White House along
with both legislative chambers
in Washington — that
they would continue to pressure
them to enact progressive
legislation now that they
were in power.
“We are going to be out
here protesting, we are going
to be in the chambers in
Albany, we are going to be
in D.C., we’re going to be all
over,” said Queens Assembly
Member Zohran Mamdani.
“To make it very clear – the
days of the bare minimum
are over.”