High praise to U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., for coming out and saying President Donald Trump’s behavior, including instances of potential obstruction of justice laid out in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller, meets the constitutional threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors (“GOP lawmaker sees ‘impeachable conduct’,” Star-Advertiser, May 19).

It is the constitutional duty of Congress to investigate a president’s misconduct, then determine if these actions are impeachable. I wish other Republican members of Congress members would use their own judgment, not partisanship, to determine if the president violated the law. Instead they have been intimidated and bullied by the president.

This is not the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. It has mutated and morphed into something insidious, thanks to Trump. Thank goodness one of them is standing up to the bully.

Robert K. Soberano

Moiliili

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