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blitzen

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Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:09 PM Apr 2020

Trump is committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" today (as usual). Draw up the Articles of ...

Impeachment immediately!


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/what-does-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-actually-mean/600343/

In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton made the larger point that impeachment is directed at “political” offenses that “proceed from … the abuse or violation of some public trust.” He was echoed by the foremost of the first generation of commentators on the Constitution, Justice Joseph Story, who observed in his 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution that impeachable conduct is often “purely political,” and that “no previous statute is necessary to authorize an impeachment for any official misconduct.”

Thus, one point on which the founding generation would have been clear was that “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was not restricted to indictable crimes. Their understanding has been ratified by two centuries of American practice.

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Trump is committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" today (as usual). Draw up the Articles of ... (Original Post) blitzen Apr 2020 OP
Has he gone even one day FoxNewsSucks Apr 2020 #1
However Chainfire Apr 2020 #2

Chainfire

(17,538 posts)
2. However
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 02:07 PM
Apr 2020

It doesn't matter a damn bit if he has a supportive Senate and the Supreme Court to back him up. He is experimenting with his power today to see how far he can stretch it. He will push until he hits a wall, and there my not be a wall.....

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