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GOP Realizes Impeaching Obama Is Impossible, Votes to Sue Him Instead

Any Which Way

With some House Republicans gunning for impeachment, their leadership is trying for a less ruinous way to punish the president—a lawsuit that passed along party lines Wednesday.

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By a vote of 225 to 201 almost entirely along party lines, the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to proceed with a lawsuit against Obama for “overstepp[ing]

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