Article snippet: After a two-week barrage of public hearings, Democrats are eyeing the next stage of their impeachment inquiry as they edge closer to an end-of-year goal for wrapping up their investigation into MORE’s dealings with Ukraine. House Intelligence Committee Chairman MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democrats on the panel finished their last scheduled public hearings this week with what sounded like closing arguments for impeachment. Schiff said lawmakers will determine their next steps “in the coming days.” The committees leading the fact-finding phase of the investigation are slated to write a report on their conclusions. Those committees — Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs — are also poised to publicize the last pair of unreleased transcripts from their closed-door depositions with 17 witnesses. Then the spotlight will move to the House Judiciary Committee. That panel would lead the process of crafting impeachment articles as soon as the first week of December, when Congress returns from its Thanksgiving recess. “The next phase will shift from the facts to the law. The law means the Constitution,” said Rep. MORE (D-Md.), a Judiciary Committee member. It remains unclear if the Judiciary panel will stage hearings with additional witnesses, or move directly to marking up articles, based on the investigative committees’ recommendations, to send to the floor for a full House vote. They’ll also have to decide whether to limit the articles of impeachment to Trump’s ef... Link to the full article to read more