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Sen. Rick Scott announces amendment to raise impeachment voting threshold in the House



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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Florida Senator Rick Scott has announced a constitutional amendment to raise the House voting threshold to approve articles of impeachment to three-fifths of the chamber. It currently requires a simple majority.

In a tweet Thursday morning, Scott said:

After the partisan charade by @SpeakerPelosi & House Dems, I'm introducing a constitutional amendment that raises the threshold to approve articles of impeachment in the House to 3/5 Super Majority vote. Our country should never again suffer from a partisan impeachment process.

Scott then included a press release where he is quoted as saying:

An act as divisive as impeachment must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support. It should be harder — much harder — for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of the political majority.

Scott’s proposal comes after President Donald Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment in a Senate trial on Wednesday.

“The Democrats used the impeachment process as a tool to hurt President Trump, regardless of the outcome of the Senate trial,” Scott says. “It’s a dangerous precedent and the process has to change.”

Wednesday night, another Florida lawmaker made headlines when he announced he has filed an ethics complaint against Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

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