Steyer plans impeachment push targeting Democrats over recess

Billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer’s Need to Impeach campaign is planning to storm House Democrats’ districts over next week’s congressional recess to keep up the pressure amid growing calls for impeachment.

Need to Impeach organizers and volunteers are planning to hold events in both the districts of Democratic lawmakers who endorsed proceeding with impeachment and of those who have yet to announce their support.

“We’ve reached an inflection point where Congress can no longer ignore their constituents’ calls to hold Donald Trump accountable for his lawbreaking, corruption, and contempt for the rule of law,” Steyer said in a statement to The Hill.{mosads}

Democrats are growing restless after former White House counsel Don McGahn declined to show up for a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee this week. That also came after Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) became the first Republican over the weekend to express support for impeaching Trump over the allegations laid out in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“Momentum is now on the side of impeachment, and representatives need to stand up and be counted,” Steyer added. “The American people need to know: are you going to allow Donald Trump to carry out his assault on democracy, or are you going to step up and take a stand by initiating impeachment proceedings?”

Steyer’s group, which boasts on its website that it has support from more than 8 million people, is hoping to build on that momentum as lawmakers head back to their districts on Thursday for the week-long Memorial Day holiday recess.

The group is also launching a website on Thursday to keep tabs on where every lawmaker stands on impeachment. It will include a score of whether an individual lawmaker has voted in favor of articles of impeachment offered by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on the House floor in 2017 and 2018, as well as if they have cosponsored a resolution from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) calling on the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether the House should impeach President Trump or any other impeachment resolution in the past.

The number of House Democrats coming out in favor of launching an impeachment inquiry has roughly doubled in the last few days, according to The Hill’s whip list.

Top Democratic leaders who have held the line against moving forward with impeachment are likely to see Need to Impeach events in their districts, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (Mass.) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (Calif.).