{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hudson.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=2746", "Hudson Votes Against Impeaching President Trump", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Richard Hudson", "H001067", "hudson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \r\n\r\n\tDecember 18, 2019\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\tHudson Votes Against Impeaching President Trump\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\tWASHINGTON, D.C. Today U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement after voting against partisan articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump:\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\tOur Founding Fathers warned of the impeachment process being abused for partisan purposes. In Federalist Papers No. 65, Alexander Hamilton warned, there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstration of innocence or guilt,' said Rep. Hudson.Washington Democrats just passed two articles of impeachment with zero evidence President Donald Trump committed a crime or an impeachable offense.\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\tHudson continued, I'm incredibly disappointed Hamilton's fears have come true  this partisan impeachment has been motivated by politics with zero evidence, facts, fairness or due process. It has been a sham from the start, and the American people are sick and tired of it. This is a dark time in America's history if the new standard for impeaching a president is simply disagreeing with him or her politically.\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\tThis partisan impeachment process has been motivated by politics with zero evidence, facts, fairness or due process. The case against President Trump is demolished by four facts:\r\n \r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tThe call transcript shows no conditionality\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tPresident Trump and President Zelensky say there was no pressure\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tUkrainians were not aware the aid was withheld\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tUkraine got the aid without doing anything to get it\r\n\t\r\n \r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hudson.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=2746"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4180431608110666, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}