{"id":641678,"date":"2021-08-13T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641678"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:22:20","slug":"state-dem-leader-ends-cuomo-impeachment-threat-says-cant-impeach-and-remove-once-out-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dem-leader-ends-cuomo-impeachment-threat-says-cant-impeach-and-remove-once-out-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"State Dem Leader Ends Cuomo Impeachment Threat, Says Can\u2019t \u2018Impeach And Remove\u2019 Once Out Of Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fstate-dem-leader-ends-cuomo-impeachment-threat-says-cant-impeach-and-remove-once-out-of-office%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=641678&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\/08\/Cuomo-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>New York state lawmakers will suspend the impeachment investigation into Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) the day the scandal-ridden governor officially leaves office, the state assembly leader announced Friday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The investigation, which launched in March, was supposed to determine whether Cuomo should be removed from office, and came after several women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct. At the time, he was also facing questions about his nursing home policies, his administration\u2019s decision to withhold nursing home death data from lawmakers, and his decision to profit off a pandemic memoir about leadership.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, said in a statement that, now that Cuomo has agreed to resign, the investigation can\u2019t proceed as planned.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two reasons for this decision. First, the purpose of the Assembly Judiciary Committee\u2019s impeachment investigation was to determine whether Governor Cuomo should remain in office. The governor\u2019s resignation answers that directive. Second, we have been advised by Chair Lavine \u2013 with the assistance of counsel \u2013 of the belief that the constitution does not authorize the legislature to impeach and remove an elected official who is no longer in office,\u201d said Heastie.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet me be clear \u2013 the committee\u2019s work over the last several months, although not complete, did uncover credible evidence in relation to allegations that have been made in reference to the governor,\u201d Heastie added. \u201cUnderscoring the depth of this investigation, this evidence concerned not only sexual harassment and misconduct but also the misuse of state resources in relation to the publication of the governor\u2019s memoir as well as improper and misleading disclosure of nursing home data during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuomo, 63, announced Tuesday that he would resign in the aftermath of the state attorney general\u2019s report, which concluded that the governor sexually harassed a number of women, and \u201cengaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York State law.\u201d <\/span><span>Cuomo has denied wrongdoing, and even in his resignation announcement, the governor described the controversy as \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d and \u201cuntruthful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span id=\"subtitle882\" class=\"subtitle processed selfragment\" data-id=\"882\" data-start=\"3166270\" data-end=\"3169570\">I\u2019ve never crossed the line with anyone,\u201d he said.<\/span>&nbsp;\u201c<span id=\"subtitle883\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"883\" data-start=\"3171160\" data-end=\"3175870\">But, I didn\u2019t realize the extent to<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle884\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"884\" data-start=\"3175870\" data-end=\"3179230\">which the line has been redrawn.<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle885\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"885\" data-start=\"3180670\" data-end=\"3185320\">There are generational and cultural shifts that<\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"subtitle886\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"886\" data-start=\"3185320\" data-end=\"3188199\">I just didn\u2019t fully appreciate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that given the circumstances, the best way that I can help now is if I step aside and let the government back to governing,\u201d said Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>When Cuomo officially steps down from his position, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, a little-known state Democrat who has served with Cuomo for two of his three terms, will become governor. When the attorney general\u2019s report was released, Hochul called Cuomo\u2019s behavior \u201crepulsive \u201d and \u201cunlawful\u201d but declined to comment extensively, citing her place in the line of succession.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation will take effect in 11 days. Hochul, however, has said that she doesn\u2019t need that long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to know that I\u2019m ready for this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 member<\/span><\/i><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York state lawmakers will suspend the impeachment investigation into Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) the day the scandal-ridden governor officially leaves office, the state assembly leader announced Friday.\u00a0The investigation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641678","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=641678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}