Finally!

Republicans are fighting back against the ridiculous Schiff Star Chamber “impeachment hearings.”

Democrats led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) have been holding hearings and questioning witnesses in private and then leaking out what they think is helpful to their narrative, while holding back that which is helpful to the president. They’ve prevented the public and Republicans from knowing everything that’s going on and haven’t even afforded witnesses such as those from the State Department the right to bring in State Department lawyers to determine if there is any inappropriate (classified) material being discussed, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

This, despite having taken no formal vote by the House to even hold an impeachment inquiry or even stating what the alleged offense is that the president is supposed to have committed that would qualify for impeachment.

Prior impeachment incidents had a formal vote of the whole House to open an inquiry because the power of impeachment rests in the House, according to the Constitution, not just by declaration of the House Speaker.

In the case of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, you not only had a formal vote for an inquiry, you also had a formal finding from Ken Starr, the independent counsel, that Clinton had committed a felony. Now you have nothing.

More troubling are reports such as Schiff seemingly trying to influence a witness in a secret meeting to testify in accordance with the Schiff’s narrative. That should disturb all Americans.

Today, Republicans showed, finally, that they’d had enough.

About thirty Republicans members of Congress stormed the closed door questioning of defense department official Laura Cooper.

They blasted the man behind it all, Rep. Adam Schiff, and the lack of transparency of the proceedings.

First, they held a press conference outside.

Rep. Gaetz: Dems are “obsessed with attacking” the president with “secret interviews, selective leaks”https://t.co/Mn4y88wurI pic.twitter.com/bTwsM3OYAO

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2019

Rep. Scalise slams Democrats’ impeachment process: “maybe in the Soviet Union” this lack of due process was commonplacehttps://t.co/hmoI1UhKT6 pic.twitter.com/7CsDtXKpkx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2019

Rep. Green: Dem leadership “ignoring the founding principles of our democracy” with secretive impeachmenthttps://t.co/lAq5yT2PUK pic.twitter.com/2hCSjlFuwI

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2019

Then, several tried to storm the SCIF where the questioning was going on.

Update: This group of about 20 House Republicans is barging into the SCIF. pic.twitter.com/IZQ8J4YSNq

— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) October 23, 2019

Some did get in and managed to delay the proceeding. Some complained that despite the fact that they are on relevant committees, they have been denied access to information.

Rep. Lesko just walked out and told the press they were kicked out. She expressed her frustration that she's part of the Judiciary Committee and isn't included in the hearings. She also said that Republicans on the selected impeachment committees are not being treated fairly pic.twitter.com/iS1fZhUnJg

— Wissam Melhem (@wissmel) October 23, 2019

Adam Schiff just SHUT DOWN his secret underground impeachment hearing after I led a group of Republicans into the room. Now he's threatening me with an Ethics complaint! I'm on the Armed Services Cmte but being blocked from the Dept. Asst. SecDef's testimony. This is a SHAM! pic.twitter.com/6qUMerxENC

— Rep. Bradley Byrne (@RepByrne) October 23, 2019

Here’s the full video:

Good for them, they’re fighting back. Now the Senate needs to support them and say they wouldn’t go along with the sham. If they’re not going to follow the Constitution and due process, the Senate should refuse to even entertain anything that comes from the House.