House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday publicly opposed the conservative-led bid to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, saying their accusations don’t rise to the necessary level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“I don’t think we should be cavalier with this process,” Ryan told reporters when asked about the newly introduced articles of impeachment.
The speaker’s comments splashed cold water on the impeachment push after the articles were filed Wednesday night — though there were already signs conservatives were dialing back the push and want to use the threat more to pressure the Justice Department to produce documents pertaining to the Russia probe.
Sources told Fox News earlier Thursday that House Republicans were not planning to pursue the impeachment articles before the summer recess.- READ MORE
[divider][/divider]How did this guy ever get elected to public office even before his post as U.S. Attorney General?
Jeff Sessions is officially out to lunch.
Somebody get Nero a fiddle.
[give_form id=”79809″] [contentcards url=”http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/26/paul-ryan-comes-out-against-rosenstein-impeachment-push-led-by-house-conservatives.html” target=”_blank”]LOL Jeff Sessions takes shots @realDonaldTrump this morning siding with Rod Rosenstein.
If the Republican Party dont get rid of him Im gonna #WalkAway pic.twitter.com/mq43wLyTIt
— MR BROWN (@0H0UR1) July 26, 2018