Impeachment takeaways: History lessons, partisan feuds

(AP) Republicans allied with the president have used the impeachment hearing to force procedural votes and delay the proceedings in a raucous day of bickering.

That’s one of the takeaways from Wednesday’s hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which featured testimony from four law school professors. Three of those professors made clear they thought President Donald Trump’s conduct met the constitutional definition of an impeachable offense.

Also notable: Democrats have been debating whether to include obstruction of justice as laid out in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller on the Russia investigation.