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The House Judiciary Committee spent December 12 grinding through a marathon markup on articles of impeachment, keeping Trump’s Ukraine scandal at center stage and pushing Republicans into increasingly strained defenses. The delay of the committee vote until the next day only underlined how much the process had already become a political and reputational trap for the White House.
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The House Judiciary Committee spent December 12 grinding through a marathon markup on articles of impeachment, keeping Trump’s Ukraine scandal at center stage and pushing Republicans into increasingly strained defenses. The delay of the committee vote until the next day only underlined how much the process had already become a political and reputational trap for the White House.
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The House Judiciary Committee spent December 12 grinding through a marathon markup on articles of impeachment, keeping Trump’s Ukraine scandal at center stage and pushing Republicans into increasingly strained defenses. The delay of the committee vote until the next day only underlined how much the process had already become a political and reputational trap for the White House.
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