Gov. Larry Hogan beats impeachment charge from Trump-aligned Republican
Del. Daniel L. Cox , a Donald Trump-aligned candidate for governor, had four minutes to make his case. Without debate, the House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee summarily dismissed it.
“It is a political issue, not a legal issue worthy of impeachment and that extraordinary remedy under our system,” House Minority Leader Jason C. Buckel said as he moved to vote down the charges.“I do not feel that it meets the standards of impeachment that would exist under Maryland law, and it would be unprecedented under the circumstances to proceed at this time,” he said.
Democrats who do not pull punches when criticizing the governor, rejected the charges without further discussion.Cox said in an interview that he did not expect his colleagues to remove Hogan from office, although people told him privately, he said, that they supported the measure. He said he pushed it anyway to stand up for residents who felt profoundly harmed by Hogan’s public health actions during the pandemic — unable to say goodbye to dying loved ones, “the forced masking of their children for nearly two years,” missed weddings, businesses that shriveled or died under shutdown regulations and, broadly, “the loss of their freedomsIt’s not political. It is a constitutional and legal issue,” said Cox, a lawyer.
The novel coronavirus infected more than 1 million Marylanders and had killed 14,160 as of Thursday. The lifting of mask mandates in Maryland schoolsCox and Hogan, a prominent critic of Trump within the GOP, have sharply clashed over policy and politics. Cox filed an
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