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    Jamie Raskin’s ‘Truth Squad’ of Democrats prepares for Biden impeachment inquiry

    by Eric Garcia Dec 28, 2023 4 minutes
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    If it were up to Rep Jamie Raskin, he would not have to spend his time pushing back on Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

    “We would love to do hearings about the role that gun violence is playing in savaging and disrupting community life in America,” he told The Independent by phone earlier this month after House Republicans unanimously voted to open an impeachment inquiry. His colleague Rep Maxwell Frost of Florida, who got his start as an activist for March for Our Lives after the shooting in Parkland, would probably agree.

    But that’s not the world in which the Maryland Democrat lives. Instead, the top Democrat on the House Oversight & Accountability Committee will.

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