Democrat vying to unseat Republican Joe Wilson would have voted to impeach Trump
A Democrat running in South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District said she would have voted to impeach President Donald Trump had she been in Congress.
“I think at the end of the day there was enough that warranted a trial and evidence,” Adair Ford Boroughs, a former Department of Justice attorney who wants to unseat U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-Springdale, told The State.
Wilson, along with the state’s Republican congressmen, voted against impeachment, but the House, controlled by Democrats, ultimately adopted two articles accusing Trump of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power. U.S. Reps. Jim Clyburn and Joe Cunningham, South Carolina’s two Democrats in Congress, voted to impeach the president.
When asked about impeachment on Wednesday, while she visited with teachers as part of the SC for Ed lobby day at the State House, Boroughs said she hadn’t followed the proceedings closely “because I’ve been very focused on what’s going to be happening when I’m going to be there, and this is not when I’m going to be there.”
Boroughs, who grew up in Williston and now lives in Forest Acres, was the executive director of Charleston Legal Access before running for Congress. She also has clerked for a federal judge and worked on the death penalty trial of 2015 Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.
Boroughs did say she was frustrated with how the impeachment process has played out and how it has become partisan.
“The way I feel about it, we’re talking about our Constitution, and about the very foundations of our very democracy,’ Boroughs said. “I feel very frustrated about how political everything has become and how partisan everything is.
Boroughs said the gravity of impeachment is diminished “when we wrap it in partisanship.”
“This is a constitutional process we should have in place, and we should do it justice, because history will look back on that, and I feel like some of the current stuff going on, people are not taking it as seriously as they’re intending to be.”
This story was originally published January 30, 2020 at 12:29 PM.
