US question, but why don’t Democrats just vote for impeachment basically every day? Whether it’s for the Jack Smith findings, the unwillingness to hold up the 14th amendment, whatever. Like, is there a statute of limitations for impeachment? Is there a limited number of crimes valid for it?
Even if it never succeeded, it would send a message that he needs to be careful and if he makes too many Republicans mad he could lose his job.
Which seems to imply that the absolute first step is for there to be a vote.
So I think OP’s question is really- “Even though it’s not going to go anywhere, why can’t democrats just keep asking for that initial vote for different chargers to clog up the house?”
My guess is that they could do that, but eventually doing so would be called out as pointless time wasting and be disallowed.
I can see a directive going out that any participants are to be barred from participating in anything at all. Even if there’s some legislative rule that says they can’t be, because we all know how the new administration feels about old legislation. And then actual, literal guards will be brought in to keep those people out.
And maybe all others in the same political party “just in case they decide to try the same thing”.
TBH, the Trumpists are probably looking for any excuse to do just that.