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New York Just Gave Congress a New Reason for Impeachment

A bill passed by the state Senate offers House Democrats the chance to request Trump’s tax returns—but only if they can give a specific reason.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

On Wednesday, the New York State Senate approved two important bills that could shape the legal fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns and his pardon power, if they become law. But one of those bills—the one allowing New York State to give tax returns upon a request from Congress—also includes a word that could undermine the U.S. House of Representatives’ efforts to get Trump’s state taxes. That specific word is specific. And that word gives the House a new reason—in addition to all the ones it already possesses—to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry.

That step is already warranted by the Mueller report’s evidence that the president may have committed obstruction of justice (and by at least a preponderance of evidence, ). But when a court, interpreting

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