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The House Judiciary Committee, on which I serve, met Wednesday night to continue work on the baseless articles of impeachment that partisan Democrats are considering against President Trump – despite the obvious absence of any grounds for seeking his removal from office.

Top Republicans in the House are vowing to use every procedural tool available to them to strong-arm Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and get them to hold a minority hearing on impeachment.

WASHINGTON — Arizona Republicans have emerged as some of President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders as congressional Democrats move ahead with their impeachment to oust Trump from the White House.

Leading that effort is GOP Rep. Andy Biggs, a two-term Republican from the East Valley suburbs of Phoenix who now heads the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hardline conservatives.

But he's not alone. Arizona Republican Reps. Debbie Lesko and Paul Gosar have also been some of the most outspoken critics of Democrats' investigations.

Republican members on the House Judiciary Committee loudly expressed their objections to the way Democrats organized Monday's impeachment inquiry hearing, in which the committee's Democratic counsel, Attorney Barry Berke, acted as both a questioner and a witness.

"The point of order is he's inappropriate to be up here asking questions," Rep. Louie Gohmert said. "How much money do you have to give to get to do this?"

"The gentleman will not cast aspersions on the staff of the committee," Nadler replied.

Arizona's three members of the House Judiciary Committee remained in their partisan corners on impeachment Monday after hearing lawyers for both parties discuss the evidence collected in the Ukrainian matter.

Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., made clear during his questions that President Donald Trump has been treated fairly during the inquiry, but that the president has tried to thwart Congress.

Democrats have not thought through what history will say about their impeachment obsession, but I suspect that, years from now, people will say something like, "Are you kidding me?"

Republican members on the House Judiciary Committee voiced their objections to the Democrats' witness in Monday's impeachment hearing, because he turned into a questioner in the same hearing.

Attorney Barry Berke has been working with the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and testified at the beginning of the hearing on Monday. During his testimony, he laid out the arguments that President Trump's conduct towards Ukraine's president reached the threshold for impeachment.

Republicans and Democrats on Sunday night held prep sessions as they gear up for the House Judiciary Committee's high-stakes impeachment hearing concerning President Trump's dealing with Ukraine.

Lawmakers are looking to be as ready as possible ahead of Monday's hearing, one of the final opportunities for members to publicly make their case for or against impeachment as Democrats charge ahead with hopes to vote on articles before the Christmas holiday.