What is it that motivates Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters? Is it her unbridled passion for her job? Or is it the obscene profits she and her family have been earning from her Congressional earmarks and minority banking connections?
In this video clip, Waters is shown berating President Trump as she’s been known to do (and some might even say incentivized to do by her party). But at the end of the clip, she seems to insist that as both a member of Congress and a woman of color she could not be impeached herself.
Unfortunately for Waters, neither of these statements is true, as the Constitution allows both the House of Representatives and the Senate to impeach one of their own members by a two-thirds majority vote. Whether that Congressperson is a woman or a person of color has no bearing on the process.
In history, no member of the House has been impeached, but in 1797, Senator William Blount of Tennessee was removed for conspiring to help post-Revolutionary War Britain to potentially capture Spanish territory (in what is now Florida and Louisiana). Initially, it was the House of Representatives that sought Blount’s ouster, but the Senate refused to accept the House’s decision and instead conducted their own hearings, which expelled Blount (who fled from the Capital to Tennessee).
Watch as this hidden-cam video captures Representative Waters in a too-candid-for-comfort moment.
