{"id":160930,"date":"2021-02-22T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160930"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:59:04","slug":"an-impeachable-offense-new-york-democrat-demands-cuomo-face-inquiry-over-nursing-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-impeachable-offense-new-york-democrat-demands-cuomo-face-inquiry-over-nursing-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Impeachable Offense\u2019: New York Democrat Demands Cuomo Face Inquiry Over Nursing Home Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-impeachable-offense-new-york-democrat-demands-cuomo-face-inquiry-over-nursing-home-order%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The New York Democratic lawmaker who claimed, last week, that Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened him over revelations about the governor\u2019s COVID-19 nursing home order, is now openly calling for Cuomo to face an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo\">Daily Wire reported that Democratic lawmakers<\/a> in New York were \u201cinching\u201d toward an impeachment inquiry and that the inquiry had bipartisan support. Monday, New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim officially called for an investigation in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuomo abused his powers to hide life and death information from the Department of Justice that prevented lawmakers from legislating \u2013 like fully repealing corporate immunity for nursing homes. That is an impeachable offense,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way to protect the integrity of the co-equal branch of the state government, AKA the \u2018People\u2019s House,\u2019 is to start impeachment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The New York state constitution does not establish a standard for impeachment, and only one New York governor has ever been impeached, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/can-gov-cuomo-be-impeached\">according to local media<\/a>. The New York State Assembly can impeach a governor, though, by a simple majority vote. As in Congress, the case then proceeds to a trial in the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo is, of course, under fire for an order he gave at the start of the pandemic, forcing New York nursing homes and other adult care facilities to accept recovering coronavirus patients regardless of whether they remained contagious. The policy, which was repealed just two months later, may have been responsible for thousands of New York\u2019s COVID-19 deaths, particularly among members of vulnerable communities: the elderly and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cuomo largely escaped scrutiny for the order \u2014 at least from the mainstream media \u2014 the situation did not escape the Department of Justice, at least according to one of Cuomo\u2019s top aides, who reportedly told prominent state Democrats, earlier in February, that the Cuomo administration had deliberately hidden data on the effects of the nursing home policy so as to avoid federal scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Albany Times-Union reported that the Cuomo administration is under investigation from both the United States Attorney in Brooklyn and the FBI. Although neither agency was willing to give details on the probe, Assemblyman Kim told Yahoo News\u2019 podcast that the investigation may be centered around claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo\">Cuomo obstructed justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim told the same podcast that he believes the Cuomo impeachment inquiry will come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take a little time to build that consensus, but every day we are inching toward the impeachment process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe estimated that along with \u2018virtually all\u2019 Republicans, between 25 and 30 Democratic legislators currently support an impeachment inquiry into Cuomo \u2014 a number he suggested is growing steadily,\u201d Yahoo News added.<\/p>\n<p>It seems even New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is in favor of a deeper investigation, according to comments he made at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not spoken to [Cuomo]. No, I do not accept his explanation,\u201d de Blasio said. \u201cThere needs to be a full investigation. We need to get the whole truth and make sure nothing like this ever happens ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo, meanwhile, assailed the now-departed Trump administration for mishandling the pandemic at his own press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuomo made a public appearance at a mass vaccination site at Medgar Evers College in New York City on Monday morning. He was joined by a handful of New York State Assembly members but did not address the nursing home deaths or take questions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-york-ron-kim-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal-impeachable-offense\">Fox News reported<\/a>. \u201cCuomo blamed the Trump administration for a lack of coronavirus vaccines and accused the former administration of creating mistrust around the vaccine in the Black community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo\">Related: New York Lawmakers \u2018Inching\u2019 Toward A Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Andrew Cuomo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Democratic lawmaker who claimed, last week, that Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened him over revelations about the governor\u2019s COVID-19 nursing home order, is now openly calling for Cuomo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273960,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018An Impeachable Offense\u2019: New York Democrat Demands Cuomo Face Inquiry Over Nursing Home Order","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018An Impeachable Offense\u2019: New York Democrat Demands Cuomo Face Inquiry Over Nursing Home Order","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}