5 August 2021: Majority Dem Legislators Drafting Articles of Impeachment to Remove Cuomo

"We Have To Impeach": NY State Lawmakers Call for Cuomo to Resign or Be Removed

With a majority of Democratic Party lawmakers in New York now on board with impeaching Andrew M. Cuomo, it was only a matter of time before the majority party in the New York Legislature began drafting articles of impeachment. This report however indicates the lawmaker who will draft the charges on which Cuomo will be tried in the New York state senate first drafted the articles to do so months ago.

“It took 179 witnesses and a statewide investigation by the Attorney General to hold one powerful man accountable—tell me again that New York doesn't have a power problem,” Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou said.

Niou, who told me “we have to impeach” the governor, is one of Cuomo’s fiercest critics and called for the governor’s resignation months ago when allegations of harassment and misconduct were first reported by former aide Lindsay Boylan and others.

She said she’s had impeachment articles drafted for a long time.

“I had them drafted yesterday,” Niou said. “I had them drafted months ago.”

That's an amazing admission of complicity in keeping Andrew M. Cuomo in power for a legislature that has long had all the information it needed to proceed with impeaching New York's governor.

NY Assembly eyeing Cuomo articles of impeachment by end of August

Although at least one member of the majority Democratic party in New York's legislature has had articles of impeachment ready to go for months, the New York state assembly won't proceed with moving forward with them until the end of August according to this report:

The state Assembly is wrapping up its probe of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and could draft articles of impeachment by the end of the month, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

The timetable on the Assembly Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation of Cuomo comes a day after a withering report by state Attorney General Letitia James found that the three-term governor used his office to sexually harass female underlings half his age and broke state and federal laws.

The Assembly Judiciary Committee will issue its report and recommendation — all but certainly to impeach Cuomo — and then the full Assembly would immediately go back into session and vote on the articles of impeachment.

At least 82 state Assembly members have either released public statements or told The Associated Press that they support beginning the process of forcing out the scandal-scarred governor who now faces criminal probes in at least four counties including in Manhattan.

To think, they wouldn't be doing anything of the sort if not for the state attorney general's report.