Article snippet: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats were being weak on President Trump, in the wake of reports that he asked Ukraine’s government to investigate the son of Democratic front-runner Joe Biden. “At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” she tweeted on Saturday night. “It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law. It’s another to let him,” she said in a series of postings. “The integrity of our democracy isn’t threatened when a president breaks the law. It‘s threatened when we do nothing about it. The GOP’s silence & refusal to act shouldn’t be a surprise. Ours is.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democratic leaders have so far resisted calls to impeach the president, fearing it would be harmful to Democratic candidates seeking re-election in Republican-leaning areas in 2020. There also is little prospect that any effort would be successful in the Republican-controlled Senate. Pelosi has said Congress should pass laws so a sitting president can be indicted. Several House committees are also pursuing investigations of the Trump administration. Yet, calls for a stronger Democratic response are coming not just from the freshman congresswoman from New York and her allies, but much of the Democratic presidential field. Elizabeth Warren, who leads in the latest Des Moines Register/CNN Iowa poll, pressed Congress to “ste... Link to the full article to read more