Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.
The impeachment inquiry is surprising in one way to a University at Buffalo political science professor and WBEN contributor, but in another way, not so much.
"They have been beating this drumbeat for sometime," says UB's Jacob Neiheisel. "But on the other hand, it's not all that surprising because the nature of the alleged acts, which is to say Trump's actions are directly stepping on the toes of Congress' authorities and duties. This might be a last straw with another Democrats on board that they're willing to file articles of impeachment for abuse of power."
