Megathread: Day 1 of the Impeachment Hearings of President Donald Trump

The House Judiciary Committee has begun its hearings regarding the effort to impeach President Donald Trump. Today's hearing includes four scholars of constitutional law, who will testify on the constitutional framework of impeachment. <br><br>Submissions that may interest you<br><br>頂 Brushing off Republican requests to subpoena key witnesses for the upcoming public impeachment hearings, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said those witnesses already have been interviewed and would provide “nothing new,” and made clear he has no plans to compel their testimony. Schiff said Republicans were seeking to depose former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and the whistleblower who first brought attention to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.<br><br>頂 Google says Hunter Biden’s Gmail account was targeted by phishing attacks from Russia-linked hackers. The cocaine addict and general degenerate son of Joe Biden is now front and center in Trump’s push to end his candidacy and presidency. The news about Hunter Biden — who dabbled in international affairs and got rich from such transactions — isn’t surprising given his high profile and importance to the president’s effort to discredit Biden.<br><br>頂 Google Says Russians Tried to Hack the personal Email of staffer. The research culturally from Travis Fain has been warning of this for weeks.<br><br>頂 House investigators are seeking Trump’s dealings with Ukraine as far back as his inauguration. House impeachment investigators are now seeking any documents or evidence related to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine going back to the early days of his presidency, a significantly broader timeframe than was previously known.<br><br>頂 YouTube Is Changing How Subscription Counts Are Displayed: This seems like it should be on r/youtube, but this is relevant to politics because it also will artificially reduce the number of subscribers that lesser known channels have, and reduce their video view numbers. We saw what happened when this was done to certain channels the last time Google made a change in their subscription system. But I guess they believe that their system is being gamed too hard. Republicans have been accusing social media of unfairly gaming the system against them for a couple of years now, but from my observations leftist channels seem to be getting nuked by these changes. Since we are seeing these allegations being bandied about in the media all the time, we should be suspicious of changes to social media that are not clearly defined. <br><br>TOP voted comment in a similar thread in Republican subs:<br><br>This sub has been suspiciously inactive today..<br><br>As much as I would like to have a legitimate discussion with someone here, I am fully aware that most of the people lurking and posting here are bots. In fact, I’m surprised my comment isn’t being downvoted yet. <br><br>So, to the humans lurking here - what do you think about the lawless behavior of the President you’re ironically calling a law and order President?