Where is the line between “whipping votes in opposition to an article of impeachment” and “obstruction of justice”/“conspiracy to threaten members of Congress”?
If there are members of Congress who are afraid to vote for impeachment (and/or removal, and or a subsequent bar on Trump holding office) because of credible threats to their lives or their families, as Jason Crow and others have said, how is that not also illegal and punishable by law?
Shouldn’t, in fact, such charges be the basis for another article of impeachment, and further voting for removal? (Aren’t the gun-toting conservative people he’s tried to summon to Washington, D.C., and fifty state capitols, evidence that he’s doing this? None of those “protests” are devoid of these threats. None.)
The evidence is in front of our faces; the evidence is on TV screens and the internet; the evidence is that Trump is committing obstruction of justice by threatening members of Congress, explicitly or implicitly and quite possibly both.
Set aside the “Wait, would he really do that?” reaction that the Susan Collinses of the world may be having.
Look at how he asked Mike Pence to go overturn the election results for him last week.
When Pence would not, Trump encouraged people to go into the Capitol, where some of them were — by multiple reports — hunting Pence. (And not to give him flowers and sweets.)
Impeachment fatigue may be a thing, but so is a strategy of committing process crimes and insurrection until people get worn down and give up.