House Judiciary Committee Suspends Impeachment Investigation
House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Mike Jones, R-Andalusia, announced Thursday he’s is suspending hearings into the Articles of Impeachment filed against Governor Robert Bentley. Jones says he’s stopping the hearings at the request of the Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, whose office is conducting its own investigation into the governor.
“As I said at the first meeting on the Articles of Impeachment, this committee would work cooperatively with other investigating agencies and today’s action testifies to that. We are temporarily suspending activity at the attorney general’s request but we are not abdicating our responsibility. Everything the committee has done remains in effect,” said Jones.
The decision to suspend the hearings comes just days before the committee was scheduled to set a date to take testimony and evidence. The House Judiciary Committee began the impeachment hearings in June.
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