{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hudson.house.gov/press-releases/hudson-votes-against-impeaching-president-trump", "Hudson Votes Against Impeaching President Trump", "2019-12-18", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Richard Hudson", "H001067", "hudson.house.gov", "hudson", "https://hudson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nDecember 18, 2019\n\nHudson Votes Against Impeaching President Trump\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement after voting against partisan articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump:\n\n\u201cOur Founding Fathers warned of the impeachment process being abused for partisan purposes. In Federalist Papers No. 65, Alexander Hamilton warned, \u2018there 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,\u2019\u201d said Rep. Hudson.\u201cWashington Democrats just passed two articles of impeachment with zero evidence President Donald Trump committed a crime or an impeachable offense.\u201d\n\nHudson continued, \u201cI\u2019m incredibly disappointed Hamilton\u2019s fears have come true \u2013 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\u2019s history if the new standard for impeaching a president is simply disagreeing with him or her politically.\u201d\n\nThis 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:\n\nThe call transcript shows no conditionality\n\nPresident Trump and President Zelensky say there was no pressure\n\nUkrainians were not aware the aid was withheld\n\nUkraine got the aid without doing anything to get it", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"]], "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/press-releases/hudson-votes-against-impeaching-president-trump"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7954069189727306, "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"}