WASHINGTON — The House will vote Wednesday on whether to formally authorize Republicans’ impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
The vote is mostly symbolic, signaling impeachment will remain a top priority for House Republicans in the new year — but Biden’s alleged misdeeds are not new, nor are GOP efforts to litigate them.
The ongoing impeachment effort actually represents Republicans’ third official effort to tarnish Biden for the same thing: his son’s work with Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, when his father was leading the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy as vice president.
“This story is as old as time,” House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said last month, referring to the Bidens.
“You have a politician who does certain things, those actions benefit his family financially and then there’s an effort to sweep it all under the rug,” Jordan continued. “And we know this has happened — the best example is to use the…