Republican Congressman backing impeachment praised as ‘the first crack in the armor’ for Trump

Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan was praised on Saturday for being the first GOP member of Congress to back impeachment.

“While impeachment should be undertaken only in extraordinary circumstances, the risk we face in an environment of extreme partisanship is not that Congress will employ it as a remedy too often but rather that Congress will employ it so rarely that it cannot deter misconduct,” Amash argued. “America’s institutions depend on officials to uphold both the rules and spirit of our constitutional system even when to do so is personally inconvenient or yields a politically unfavorable outcome.”

The conservative congressman was widely praised for his leadership.

Here is some of what people were saying: