Michael Gerhardt: If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.
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"If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," Gerhardt said.
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There may be crimes that are not impeachable, and impeachable offenses don't have to be crimes.
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"If what we are talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," Mr. Gerhardt said.
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While 43 percent say the Ukraine call was impeachable, 27 percent say it was inappropriate but not impeachable.
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"If what we are talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," Gerhardt said during the hearing.
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"Not every impeachable offense is a crime, and not every crime is an impeachable offense," Mr. Matz said.
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"An impeachable offense need not be a crime, and a crime need not be an impeachable offense," Nadler said.
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The charges basically outline what the House has found or believes is impeachable, impeachable conduct that the President has done.
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"If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," University of North Carolina Professor Michael Gerhardt warned.
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"If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," said University of North Carolina law professor Michael Gerhardt.
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I never weigh in on what is impeachable or what should be impeachable, just because that is our profound constitutional duty.
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You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit.
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"If what we're talking about isn't impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," said Gerhardt, referencing what he believed to be the clear impeachable conduct of bribery and obstruction detailed in the report released Tuesday by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
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One, do you conclude that there's real proof that the President has committed impeachable offenses ... number two, are these impeachable offenses serious offenses?
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"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit,' " he added.
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"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit,'" Dershowitz added.
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Read more " _____ Frank O. Bowman III in Impeachable Offenses: "Yesterday, by pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mr. Trump committed his first verifiable impeachable offense.
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" While an initial version of that clause limited the impeachable offenses to "treason and bribery," a proposal was made to expand impeachable offenses to include "maladministration.
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If "cheating the electoral system" (by means of a burglary) was impeachable, why is cheating the electoral system (by means of illicit hush money) not impeachable?
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"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like &aposquid pro quo&apos and &apospersonal benefit,&apos" Dershowitz said.
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Any investigation that has a focus on possibly impeachable activity by an impeachable official must consciously and explicitly act under the latter power rather than the former.
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The department is incompetent because impeachable offenses need not be a violation of federal criminal law, and not every violation of federal criminal law is an impeachable offense.
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Sunstein assesses his articles of impeachment thus: not impeachable for evading taxes (too personal a crime); probably impeachable for resisting a congressional subpoena (but a president could potentially make a legitimate, if dubious, claim about executive privilege); definitely impeachable for covering up an impeachable offense (abusing the powers of the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Department of Justice to conceal evidence of an attempt to subvert an election by burglarizing the Democratic National Committee).
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Unlike the prior impeachable offenses suggested by Democrats, this allegation of self-dealing could be both an impeachable offense and a federal crime, though neither would be easy to prove.
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Committee checks possible impeachable offenses The president of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives, Carlos "Johnny" Méndez, created a special committee Friday to advise him on whether the governor committed impeachable offenses.
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"If what we are talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable," Mr. Nadler said, echoing Michael J. Gerhardt, a constitutional law expert who testified in a House hearing in the fall.
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A news conference, however humiliating, is not an impeachable offense.
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Second, they argued that abuse of power is not impeachable.
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The behavior was "inappropriate," according to Alexander, but not impeachable.
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"Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable," Nadler said.
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It is, in other words, if believed, an impeachable offense.
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Lawyers disagree on whether dodgy accounting constitutes an impeachable offense.
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Now it falls to Congress to decide if it's impeachable.
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Judiciary Committee's broadened definition of an impeachable offense that holds
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Saying they don't like him is not an impeachable offense.
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He may be innocent of all criminal or impeachable activity.
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"That might very well be an impeachable offense," Nadler said.
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Which would obviously, I don't think be anywhere near impeachable.
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If this is so, Trump has committed an impeachable offense.
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However, "contemptible" is not synonymous with "impeachable" in this context.
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So what abuses of power are impeachable rather than contemptible?
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"Some of this would be impeachable," Nadler told NBC Sunday.
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And obstruction of justice has historically been an impeachable offense.
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I don't see anything remotely close to an impeachable offense.
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It has made the case that impeachable offenses may exist.
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Under Dershowitz's view, this would not be an impeachable action.
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Even if true, Mr. Dershowitz said, it was not impeachable.
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He's done something wrong, but I'm -- it's just not impeachable.
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And that is not the only impeachable offence being investigated.
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These policies were wrong, but they were not impeachable offenses.
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"We believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," they said.
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That would be obstruction of justice, potentially an impeachable offense.
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Republicans say that what the president did is not impeachable.
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Their definition of "impeachable" is different than a private citizen's.
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Is a violation of campaign finance law an impeachable offense?
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It is true that the Constitution does not name "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress" as impeachable offenses, but other than crimes of "treason" and "bribery," the text does not name impeachable offenses.
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"The list of impeachable offenses the framers included in the Constitution shows that the essence of an impeachable offense is a president's decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends," she said.
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"The list of impeachable offenses the framers included in the Constitution shows that the essence of an impeachable offense is a president's decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends," Karlan added.
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MCCARTHY: I think you&aposll get a report, no impeachable offenses.
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Do people think there's some impeachable offenses that the President committed?
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By traditional standards of American governance, these are clear impeachable offenses.
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For President Trump, every new day brings a new impeachable offense.
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And if that does not constitute an impeachable offense, nothing will.
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Obama has committed several offenses while in office that are impeachable.
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"The evidence gathered does not establish an impeachable offense," it added.
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Impeachable offenses – high crimes and misdemeanors – need not be indictable offenses.
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" He continued: "One, were impeachable offenses committed, how many, et cetera.
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Democrats and Trump opponents contend that we're in potentially impeachable territory.
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The first request is not and cannot be an impeachable offense.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean he has evidence of impeachable offenses.
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But if it did, it, too, would constitute another impeachable offense.
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Still, he noted, this act fell short of an impeachable offense.
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His lengthy report had charged Clinton with numerous potentially impeachable offenses.
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Twenty-two percent of Republicans considered such actions an impeachable offense.
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" -- Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano: Trump's actions are "arguably impeachable.
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Three Democratic-invited constitutional scholars argued Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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" >> Amy Klobuchar: Evidence so far shows Trump "committed an impeachable offense.
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There was sparse discussion of whether what he did was impeachable.
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"The evidence does not establish any impeachable offense," the report concludes.
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"There is no doubt this is an impeachable act," he said.
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Presidential suborning of perjury is itself most likely an impeachable offense.
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If this isn't impeachable behavior, then I'm not sure what is.
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These are classic examples of impeachable offenses; some are federal crimes.
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The argument about whether Trump is impeachable is the wrong argument.
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The argument about whether Trump is impeachable is the wrong argument.
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It is Trump's social divisiveness that he believes to be impeachable.
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I have said when the evidence is presented, if there is evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses — just because he's done a whole bunch of things I hate is not necessarily an impeachable offense.
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"The list of impeachable offenses the Framers included in the Constitution shows that the essence of an impeachable offense is a president&aposs decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends," Karlan added.
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" Ken Starr — The independent counsel whose report led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton "You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit.
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Amash is now the first Republican to argue Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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They know in their hearts that Trump is guilty of impeachable offenses.
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" Conservative lawyer and Trump critic George Conway, on Twitter: "This is impeachable.
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But they ultimately argued his behavior didn't amount to an impeachable offense.
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Again, we have not one piece of evidence of any impeachable act.
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In fact, suppressing it through a pattern of intimidation is probably impeachable.
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" They add that the "evidence gathered does not establish an impeachable offense.
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Is this supposed to be the impeachable high crime and/or misdemeanor?
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Will they argue that what Trump did wasn't right but isn't impeachable?
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He noted that specific crimes and impeachable offenses are two different things.
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The House first has to find that the justices committed impeachable offenses.
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Representative Justin Amash read the special counsel's findings and saw impeachable offenses.
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Trump lawyer defends his flip-flop on what constitutes an impeachable offense
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"The evidence gathered does not establish an impeachable offense," the memo concludes.
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Impeachable offenses are those The bickering over collusion "crimes" misses the point.
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I start with the definition of an impeachable offense in the Constitution.
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"It does not argue that Nixon committed any impeachable offense," they wrote.
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Go deeper: More than 500 professors say Trump "engaged in impeachable conduct"
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"But conduct need not be criminal to be impeachable," the group added.
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Yes, Robert Mueller's report contained extensive evidence of impeachable wrongdoing by Trump.
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Congress's need for other materials substantiating this apparent impeachable offense is paramount.
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Asked if anything in the Bolton revelations amounted to impeachable conduct, Sen.
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Three of those witnesses said Trump committed impeachable offenses, while one disagreed.
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Congress's constitutional duty is to ascertain whether a president committed impeachable offenses.
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That makes every objectionable comment or act by Trump an impeachable offense.
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None surprising, or impeachable; all were evident when he was a candidate.
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Turley pushed back and said Trump did not commit any impeachable offenses.
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The goal: provide a clear definition of what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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The final impeachable offenses — high crimes and misdemeanors — are perhaps the vaguest.
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"An impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous," Hurd said.
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Trump was also asked if the Obama had committed any impeachable offenses.
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Cummings declined to say whether he thought Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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"[W]hen we apply the Constitution to those facts, if it is true that President Trump has committed an impeachable offense — or impeachable offenses — then we must move swiftly to do our duty and charge him accordingly," Nadler said.
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Justin Amash, have argued the special counsel investigation demonstrated Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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Justin Amash is the first congressional Republican to say Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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As I've noted before, this is an impeachable offense in and of itself.
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But he said they failed to convince him it was an impeachable offense.
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Since he won't: he had 17 other impeachable acts in a week pic.twitter.
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Turns out killing people is an impeachable offense, according to two Philippine senators.
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"Clearly, things that violate the public trust are impeachable," he said, to applause.
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"Obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense," Curbelo said in an interview Wednesday.
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That is a "crime of responsibility" (itself an impeachable offence), the judge said.
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Many offenses are not federal crimes, yet they constitute impeachable abuses of power.
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IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES, wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper 65, are by nature political.
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At the same time, not all criminal offenses are supposed to be impeachable.
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Many people are under the mistaken impression that only prosecutable crimes are impeachable.
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If Pelosi believes Trump has not committed impeachable offenses, she should say so.
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Yovanovitch herself admitted she has no firsthand knowledge of any alleged impeachable conduct.
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Amodei did not say if he believed Trump had committed any impeachable offenses.
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"These are criminal acts, obstruction of justice, and clearly impeachable offenses," Cicilline said.
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" And his Democratic counterpart asked: "If this is not impeachable conduct, what is?
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It is about whether what Mr. Trump is doing is improper and impeachable.
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"Abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense," he claimed.
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Anyway, who needs "Tickle Me Elmo" when you have the "Endlessly Impeachable Potus"?
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That is certainly better than leaving alleged impeachable acts without a constitutional remedy.
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This record is neither complete nor compelling on proof of an impeachable offense.
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House Democrats are also taking the position that "attempted" presidential wrongdoing is impeachable.
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" Napolitano has repeatedly described Trump's dealings with Ukrainian officials as "criminal" and "impeachable.
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"I'm not 215 percent sure that he has done impeachable items" she said.
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But it's not an impeachable offense," Mr. Dershowitz said on "Fox News Sunday.
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I left off matters of policy, because policy disagreements aren't traditionally impeachable offenses.
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But their lack of support does not make the President's conduct less impeachable.
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" But he concluded the hearing by declaring that Trump's conduct was "clearly impeachable.
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Second, do they rise to the level of impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors?
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No Republican senator has said they view Trump's actions as an impeachable offense.
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"Mulvaney apparently decided it was okay to admit to an impeachable offense," Rep.
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Still, he wrote, conduct need not be a federal crime to be impeachable.
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Three law professors invited by Democrats argued that Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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The issue in the Clinton case was whether perjury was an impeachable offense.
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Three constitutional scholars called by Democrats told lawmakers that Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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If serving one's own purposes were impeachable, politicians would be out of business.
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" She added, "I think every single colleague of mine agrees there's impeachable offenses.
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"The biggest lie isn't that the President committed an impeachable offense," said Rep.
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Such a request could theoretically rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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" Bennet later added, "Look, I've said I think that he's committed impeachable offenses.
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Bribery is one of the specific crimes listed in the Constitution as impeachable.
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Goodlatte asked whether the founding fathers considered "maladministration" to be an impeachable offense.
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Feldman was among three witnesses who testified Wednesday that Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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"An impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous," Mr. Hurd said.
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The senate needs 67 "yes" votes to convict the president of impeachable offenses.
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Being a sorry excuse for a human being is not an impeachable offense.
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Whether any of that adds up to impeachable offenses remained an open question.
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" Forty-three percent said they think what Trump "said on the call with the president of Ukraine" is "an impeachable offense," compared to 27 percent who found it "inappropriate, but not impeachable" and 17 percent who said it was "appropriate.
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To conservatives reading this column, ask yourselves the following questions: If breaking the law (by lying under oath) to conceal an affair was impeachable, why is breaking the law (by violating campaign-finance laws) to conceal an affair not impeachable?
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If cheating "our institutions" (by means of an "assault" in "every way" on the legal system) is impeachable, why is cheating those institutions (by means of nonstop presidential mendacity and relentless attacks on the Justice Department and the F.B.I.) not impeachable?
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Congress cannot be satisfied that impeachable offenses were not committed when Mr. Mueller's investigative mandate did not cover many impeachable offenses, and when his report does not provide detailed information and answers to the few offenses that are within his mandate.
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"Clearly, things that violate the public trust are impeachable," Amash said Tuesday, drawing applause.
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He's the only Republican in Congress who says the Mueller report contained impeachable offenses.
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"We have an obligation to investigate whether the President committed impeachable offenses," she tweeted.
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His actions are not impeachable because he believed they'd also help the public interest.
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WATTERS: Where the minute the Democrats, they love James Comey, impeachable, man of integrity.
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First, the allegation of impeachable offenses, including "high crimes and misdemeanors" must be made.
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Indeed, we are a long way from even deciding whether there are impeachable offenses.
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Moreover, she understood the Russia investigation was not producing clear criminal or impeachable conduct.
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Trump's irresistible impulse to counterpunch is the best hope for Democrats seeking impeachable acts.
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I honestly cannot think of something Donald Trump could do that would be impeachable.
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Moreover, the potentially impeachable offenses of Trump are not limited to just statutory crimes.
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And he argued that Democrats are already effectively investigating whether Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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If Trump lies under oath, it would be an indictable and an impeachable offense.
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First, the Constitution specifically rules out the possibility of pardoning someone for impeachable offenses.
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As a sitting president this constitutes, if Congress wishes to do so, impeachable offenses.
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Whether that type of crime is an impeachable offense, however, is up to Congress.
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Sunstein thinks each of these is an impeachable offense — as they almost certainly are.
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While the Constitution speaks of high crimes, impeachable matters need not be formally criminal.
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And that campaign-finance violations don't rise to the level of impeachable offenses, anyway.
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"I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened," she told Bloomberg News.
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Plus, they've asserted, it simply doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Trump's behavior is spectacularly impeachable, involving one of the founders' central justifications: foreign interference.
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Mr. Starr testified before our committee that the president might have committed impeachable offenses.
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"Abuse of power" is what Nadler calls President Donald Trump's actions, declaring them impeachable.
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Their scandals may not build to anything impeachable, but the scandals will never end.
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If this is the new standard, every President from here on out is impeachable.
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Three other law professors invited by Democrats argued that Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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Catch up: We explain the impeachment process and how the Constitution defines impeachable offenses.
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If Trump defies a final order, then that would be an undeniable impeachable offense.
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The three witnesses the Democrats called were unanimous that this issue was definitely impeachable.
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Four in 2628 independents — 28500 percent — said the president's actions were an impeachable offense.
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Some have even said the call itself was inappropriate — but, they stress, not impeachable.
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"What is going on is that the president has committed several impeachable offenses," Rep.
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If you say it was wrong but not impeachable, that's a legitimate national conversation.
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"If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," Reps.
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It would be an impeachable offense for President Trump to fire Special Counsel Mueller.
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If the president asked Mayor Giuliani to do it, is that the impeachable offense?
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An impeachable offense, moreover, does not have to be something that violated a law.
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But if campaign finance violations now become impeachable offenses, what does the future hold?
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Even so, there's no actual agreement among constitutional scholars on what counts as impeachable.
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He shouldn't say it, and if he were to do it, it would be impeachable.
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MUKASEY: Well, there is a definition in the Constitution of what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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""Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable," Nadler said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
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"If proven, some of this would be impeachable, yes," Nadler said on Meet the Press.
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Indeed, failure to cooperate with a congressional impeachment process is itself likely an impeachable offense.
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The payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal specifically could be considered an impeachable offense.
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Only one Republican so far, Representative Justin Amash, has said Trump has committed impeachable offenses.
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That request, according to experts, could amount to obstruction of justice, potentially an impeachable offense.
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She testified on what is an impeachable offense before the House Judiciary Committee in 85033.
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"He has committed an impeachable act and must be charged," Green said in a statement.
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Pressuring a foreign power to investigate a political rival is, alone, a potentially impeachable offense.
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An impeachable offense is, at the end of the day, whatever Congress defines as such.
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Those choices indicate that finding out whether Trump committed an impeachable offense isn't their priority.
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"Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts."
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But it's a surprisingly real question whether Democratic leadership actually wants evidence of impeachable crimes.
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He looked at a public report and concluded that the president had committed impeachable offenses.
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The president may well be shown to have committed criminal or impeachable acts including subornation.
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And refusal to cooperate with such inquiries, he added, could itself be an impeachable offense.
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My reasons: First, being a terrible president and a wretched person are not impeachable offenses.
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He knows that we know that many Republicans know that he committed an impeachable offense.
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Opinion Columnist Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense on that call with the Ukrainian president.
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Alexander said the House had proved its case -- but that the conduct was not impeachable.
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"The timing is not coincidence, and I still don't see an impeachable offense committed," Sen.
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Republicans have argued that Trump's actions did not rise to the level of impeachable offenses.
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Have any of those senators offered a view of what would be an impeachable act?
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Read more " _____ • Noah Feldman in Bloomberg: "Let's be clear: It's the impeachable offense of obstruction.
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That is enough, in my opinion, to make it over the threshold of impeachable offenses.
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They must also stand as roadblocks to his engaging in potentially criminal or impeachable offenses.
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You have more than half the country thinking he did something inappropriate and potentially impeachable.
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She has every right to say that she doesn't think that Trump committed impeachable crimes.
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If there was wrongdoing such conduct could equal obstruction of justice, historically an impeachable offense.
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And others took the position that while Trump's actions weren't OK, they also weren't impeachable.
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Inviting foreign regimes to sabotage domestic political opponents for personal gain is an impeachable offense.
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The Constitution is clear that the standard for an impeachable offense is political, not criminal.
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It is now widely accepted that impeachable conduct does not have to be a crime.
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Yet every clear-eyed review of the facts shows nothing the president did was impeachable.
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Even so, he concluded that Trump's actions didn't reach the level of an impeachable offense.
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Even so, he said, these actions do not meet the threshold of an impeachable offense.
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"It came to me pretty clear that this was not an impeachable act," said Hargrove.
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Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts.
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Bumpers called the Lewinksky affair "a sex scandal," saying it was not an impeachable offense.
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"Bottom line, it should be an impeachable offense," Miller, the former Justice Department spokesman, said.
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"They provide evidence of racial bias, which is impeachable evidence to the prosecution," he added.
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"I don't think the President is committing an impeachable offense," Sensenbrenner told CNN's Jake Tapper.
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He said the president had already committed impeachable offenses even before the Ukraine scandal erupted.
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"This act on its own qualifies as an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor," Feldman said.
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The greater problem will be obtaining the evidence to show a criminal or impeachable offense.
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Virtually every elected member of the GOP knows this President has committed numerous Impeachable offenses.
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Ultimately, what constitutes an impeachable offense is up to a majority of the US House.
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And when it comes to the hazy universe of impeachable offenses, there are few sure things.
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But it's certainly not an impeachable offense, and I think that's what the Senate found, clearly.
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In evaluating the information already made public, Democrats have argued that Trump has committed impeachable offenses.
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It escalates the administration's Russia scandal, and, for the first time, provides indications of impeachable offenses.
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If that's true, lots of folks consider it obstruction of justice, a straight-up impeachable offense.
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Low approval ratings are an impeachable offense, per an article written by Paul Ryan on Medium.
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Would you claim it was wrong, but doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense?
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"Let's be clear: Trump has already committed 8 impeachable offenses," he tweeted in response to Axelrod.
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It's also an impeachable offense, and yet, there will almost certainly be no consequences for it.
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Conversely, if Mueller finds criminal or impeachable acts by Trump, recusal by Sessions was clearly warranted.
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All of these investigations raise the danger that Democrats could actually trip over an impeachable offense.
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Some Democrats, notably top donor Tom Steyer, have argued that Trump has already committed impeachable acts.
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Pelosi also accused Trump of obstruction of justice, which she said could be an impeachable offense.
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The next, they acknowledge the call, sigh over Trump's behavior but say that it's hardly impeachable.
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Noah Feldman, a Harvard legal historian who previously suggested Trump may have committed impeachable offenses, agreed.
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But perhaps worst — it is an impeachable offense — of which he does not even understand why.
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But it is certainly imaginable that Robert Mueller's investigation will reveal something truly damning and impeachable.
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House manager Sylvia Garcia drills down on how Trump engaged in the 'ABCs of impeachable behavior'
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In your opinion, do any of Mr. Trump's actions rise to the level of impeachable offenses?
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This is all to say that Trump easily meets the Andrew Johnson standard for impeachable rhetoric.
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Or perhaps not: All of this may still not rise to the level of impeachable offenses.
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Trump's allies have argued his conduct does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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"Someone should inform the president that impeachable offenses committed on national television still count," she tweeted.
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They're about deciding whether his actions, as laid out by the House Intelligence Committee, are impeachable.
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They also break down when neither side can agree on what adds up to impeachable behavior.
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Having reviewed the evidence, we come to our second question: is the President's proven conduct impeachable?
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It also asserts Trump did not commit an impeachable offense even if the allegation is true.
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Two, nothing that's being discussed in the House managers' case is even impeachable under the Constitution.
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Simply by asking a foreign leader to take this action, Mr. Trump committed an impeachable offense.
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"If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," the lawmakers wrote.
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It meant disagreement with Congress over policy was not impeachable, yet "high crimes and misdemeanors" were.
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"Someone should inform the president that impeachable offenses committed on national television still count," she said.
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If I'm not elected the national interest will suffer greatly,'" Dershowitz believes "that cannot be impeachable.
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Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who asked where was the line between political actions and impeachable conduct.
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But Nadler said nevertheless that he believes the President had obstructed justice, a potentially impeachable offense.
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Apart from the factual truth of allegations, the articles comport with the definition of impeachable conduct.
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"I think every single colleague of mine agrees there's impeachable offenses," the Michigan Democrat said Wednesday.
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But others are waiting for Mueller's report before answering whether Trump had committed an impeachable offense.
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The question is whether Congress (and Republicans in Congress, specifically) believes that is an impeachable offense.
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"Nothing rises to the level of impeachable offenses," Stefanik said during a press conference last week.
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And if it doesn't quite meet the legal definition of obstruction, is it an impeachable offense?
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And a fourth, called by Republicans, conceded that an impeachable act need not be a crime.
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But Democrats readily agree that Trump's blanket stonewalling of their investigations has veered into impeachable territory.
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Democrats contend there is overwhelming evidence that Trump committed impeachable offenses in his dealings with Ukraine.
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Impeachable deeds need not be statutory crimes of the kind tried in a court, scholars note.
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It is in and of itself impeachable conduct, the subject of the second article of impeachment.
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Rudy Giuliani will prove to be the crucial character who pushed Donald Trump toward impeachable offenses.
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"If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," they wrote. Rep.
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Merging public office and self-enrichment would be corrupt, unprecedented, unconstitutional and an ongoing impeachable offense.
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Bribery is one of the specific crimes spelled out in the Constitution as an impeachable offense.
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"If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," the lawmakers wrote.
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"Impeachable offenses do not have to be criminal offenses, as you well know," Gerhardt told lawmakers.
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"It adds more clarification to what impeachment is and what the impeachable offenses are," said Rep.
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There may be no better illustration of what the Constitution's framers considered to be impeachable conduct.
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In my article on impeachment, I argued that a president's incompetence could and should be impeachable.
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In other words, the 25th Amendment option only becomes credible when the president has committed impeachable offenses.
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Justin Amash's weekend tweets suggesting that President Donald Trump had committed "impeachable conduct" drew lots of headlines.
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"Investigations of impeachable offenses simply are not, and never have been, within Congress's legislative power," Rao said.
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I'm on record arguing that impeachment should be normalized, and that unfitness for office should be impeachable.
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Justin Amash of Michigan — was sufficiently disturbed by the report to conclude Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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" Corallo noted that he thinks that "if you're going to charge impeachable offenses in articles of impeachment.
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For example, Mr. Trump's famous boast notwithstanding, a president who committed a private murder is surely impeachable.
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Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, have said the House proved its case but the claims are not impeachable.
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" Warren noted that, historically, "Republicans and Democrats have agreed that obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense.
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If it finds evidence of impeachable offenses, it will refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee.
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The special counsel, we are told, can't be fired because that itself would be an impeachable offense.
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If there are crimes that truly rise to the level of impeachable offenses, then go for it.
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And that the question becomes, as Mr. Schiff said: If this is not impeachable conduct, what is?
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Thus, it is not true that "the president just committed another impeachable crime today," as Atkins state.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) recently said, that "would be over the line" and "probably" impeachable.
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But the Constitution's standard for impeachable offenses—"high Crimes and Misdemeanors"—is not limited to prosecutable crimes.
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"You don't necessarily launch an impeachment against the President because he committed an impeachable offense," Nadler said.
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" Turner added on Sunday that Trump's tweet is "certainly not impeachable," nor criminal, and "not witness intimidation.
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Much less, congressional Republicans said, does it reveal an impeachable offense (as several House Democrats are claiming).
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Impeachable offenses — high crimes and misdemeanors, carried out in the exercise of official duties — are literally unpardonable.
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Furthermore, narrowing impeachable offenses to include only violations of law may lead to a constitutional dead end.
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Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said on Sunday that he thinks what Trump did is an impeachable offense.
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That is an impeachable offense, and if Trump weren't president, he would likely be charged as well.
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In a narrower sense, the Mueller report laid out demonstrably impeachable offenses — but it was less conclusive.
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" Graham's response: "Well if you think the letter is impeachable, I mean the transcript, just say so.
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Yet the impeachment trial threatens to transform this well-understood aspect of politics into an impeachable offense.
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" This led Steyer to respond on Twitter: "Let's be clear: Trump has already committed 8 impeachable offenses.
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It is not proof of an impeachable offense any more than it is proof of a crime.
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If so, Trump's completely inappropriate pressure campaign — "I've mentioned it 50 times" — undermined his administration's lawyers. Impeachable?
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" On Twitter later on Sunday, he added that he did "not see evidence of an impeachable offense.
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Cautious constitutional scholars like Cass Sunstein have declared what's out there may well be an impeachable offense.
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There should be little doubt that the Framers viewed misuse of the pardon power as potentially impeachable.
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But that in and of itself is not an impeachable offense and is rather subjective in nature.
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We explain the impeachment process and look at Republicans' arguments and how the Constitution defines impeachable offenses.
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Green argued that Trump's actions inflaming racial tensions should also be considered an impeachable abuse of power.
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In response, Pelosi sent her strongest signal yet that she views Trump's resistance as an impeachable offense.
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Nadler vowed to move swiftly to impeach Trump if his committee concludes that Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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In their testimonies, those experts worked to explain what constitutes an impeachable offense according to the Constitution.
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Impeachable offenses are "public offenses," they include more amorphous actions like abuse of one's office and power.
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There's a lot of ambiguity around the types of behavior that can be construed as impeachable offenses.
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Wednesday's hearing is scheduled to focus on providing a clear definition of what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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All three of the witnesses called by Democrats agreed when asked if Trump has committed impeachable offenses.
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Obstruction is plainly an impeachable offense: It's the offense for which Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment.
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However, even accepting those representations as true, they did not describe a crime or an impeachable offense.
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It's not a crime, and in fact it's in the president's constitutional authority, but it's still impeachable.
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"President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct," the Michigan conservative said then, drawing a broadside from Trump.
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When Ford was asked by a reporter what he considered to be an impeachable offense, he replied that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history," thereby underscoring the political nature of the process.
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Even while the Republican-led Senate rejected two articles of impeachment against Trump, a prevailing defense coming from GOP senators argued that while what Trump did was inappropriate, his behavior wasn't impeachable conduct or House impeachment managers didn't meet the burden of proving the president committed impeachable offenses.
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It's probably not impeachable or even particularly un-American, insomuch as we've been here before (100 years ago).
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Justin Amash (R-Mich.) for putting "country before party" by saying President Trump had engaged in impeachable conduct.
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But... Less than half of those hoping for impeachment actually believe Trump has committed a legally impeachable offense.
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The senators said any agreement with China would be a violation of the constitution, and an impeachable offense.
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Some have suggested that his actions amount to obstruction of justice, which they argue is an impeachable offense.
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Some legal experts argue Trump's possible directive might be proof of obstruction of justice, a potentially impeachable offense.
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But when pressed, Lieu acknowledged that he thinks Trump has committed an impeachable offense with obstruction of justice.
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If it did not, Nadler asked if he thought it would be an "impeachable" offense for the commissioner.
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The speaker's explicit allegation of bribery, a misdeed identified in the Constitution as an impeachable offense, was significant.
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In the past four days alone, two new items were added to President Trump's list of impeachable offenses.
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It would be an attack on the American rule of law, a criminal offense, and an impeachable act.
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It strikes at the heart of American democracy — and it is itself the essence of an impeachable offense.
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Any claim by the president to hide the truth is itself a grave wrong and an impeachable offense.
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" As Sunstein told me, "If you procure your office by corrupt means, that would be an impeachable offense.
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"If what comes out is an impeachable offense, then I have no problem calling for impeachment," she said.
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" On the question of impeachment, Nadler said that he believes of obstruction of justice is "an impeachable offense.
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The immediate takeaway was that, if the report were true, then Trump had committed a straightforwardly impeachable offense.
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The definition of impeachable acts is designed to be broad and vague because impeachment is a political act.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona have previously called the move an impeachable offense.
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" When asked if it would be an impeachable offense, Portman said: "Honestly I haven't even seen the reports.
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The impeachable conduct was defined to include "condoning" and "acquiescing in," not only "approving" and "counseling," false testimony.
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"Someone should inform the president that impeachable offenses committed on national television still count," she wrote on Twitter.
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He said the only way a quid pro quo could be impeachable is if it involves illegal conduct.
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"If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense," they wrote at the time.
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"House Democrats' novel conception of 'abuse of power' as a supposedly impeachable offense is constitutionally defective," they wrote.
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Kucinich said in 2011 that then-President Barack Obama's decision to strike Libya was likely an impeachable offense.
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"In my judgment, it is an impeachable offense," Daniel Webster declared at a rally in Boston's Faneuil Hall.
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In other words: proving Trump's conduct crossed the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that constitute impeachable offenses.
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But he's said he does not believe it is impeachable and plans to vote against articles of impeachment.
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Some GOP senators call it inappropriate but not impeachable; other at-risk incumbents have struggled with the query.
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Whether or not you believe that is impeachable, we should be able to agree that it is unconscionable.
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A number of Republicans have been saying that what he did isn't impeachable, even if it was wrong.
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What I underestimated was Trump's subsequent eagerness to commit so brazen an impeachable offense as his Ukraine scheme.
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For the president simply to ask a foreign government to investigate his political rival is an impeachable offense.
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Trump's legal team has argued the allegations against the president do not reach the threshold for impeachable conduct.
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Trump defense attorney Jay Sekulow: Trump's actions are not impeachable 'no matter what school of thought you're on'
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"If something comes out that is clear and convincing and impeachable, I think members will act," Cole said.
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But the question we were looking at was, 'Was what was contained in Starr's report an impeachable offense?
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Though he most likely won't be removed, a majority of Americans say he has committed an impeachable offense.
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And so you have to give them points for creativity in selling this absurdity as an impeachable offense.
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" Indeed, if you accept the expression of values as impeachable, impeachment becomes simply a matter of pulling "straws.
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As congressional committees investigate, people are looking ahead to the debate over whether Trump's actions are indeed impeachable.
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"If he did, and there was no plausible reason of state for his actions, that's impeachable," Bowman said.
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A president does not need to have violated a specific criminal law to have committed an impeachable offense.
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Republicans concluded in their own report that the impeachment inquiry has unearthed no evidence of an impeachable offense.
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Ratcliffe asked Ambassador Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary Kent if 'they could assert evidence of an impeachable offense.
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The goal of this first hearing is to provide a clear definition of what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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It's about as clear a guide to what happened and why it's impeachable as you can hope for.
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Conduct that gives rise to an impeachable offense need not be a violation of a federal criminal statute.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If this isn't impeachable, I don't know what is.
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The panel heard from four constitutional lawyers, three of whom — all Democratic witnesses — said Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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The process is terrible and unfair, lawmakers complain, and what the president did was bad, but not impeachable.
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More to the point, since when did campaign finance violations become this country's idea of an impeachable offense?
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For starters, it portends the likelihood of impeachable charges being brought against the president of the United States.
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Comey's testimony is being parsed for evidence that Trump has obstructed justice, and thereby committed an impeachable offense.
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"You don't necessarily launch an impeachment against the president because he committed an impeachable offense," according to Nadler.
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"Clearly, things that violate the public trust are impeachable," Amash said to applause during the Grand Rapids town hall.
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Politics Justin Amash is the first GOP member of Congress to say that President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct.
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Justin Amash, who has argued that Trump's actions were corrupt and impeachable, and called on Congress to take action.
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Another section of Article II "already addresses the crime of bribery", he wrote, and makes it an impeachable offence.
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Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who criticized Trump for requesting probes into the Bidens but found his conduct not impeachable.
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Other than that, if he did something terrible before he was President, he robbed the bank, that's not impeachable.
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It is not in itself an impeachable offense for a President to run a back-door foreign policy shop.
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Comey ultimately demurred when asked if Trump's actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense.
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Any statements or actions by Trump opposing that investigation have been declared both criminal and impeachable by the Democrats.
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A clearer way to put his point is that impeachable offenses are those that endanger the political system itself.
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Jim Sensenbrenner whether Volume 2 of his report on obstruction of justice amounts to documenting impeachable conduct, Mueller passed.
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" House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said some of Trump's actions detailed in the Mueller report looked to be "impeachable.
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Sensenbrenner pressed Mueller to say whether there was anything in the special counsel's report that constituted an impeachable offense.
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Assuming John Bolton were to testify in the light most favorable to the House, it still wouldn't be impeachable?
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If the goal is to defeat Trump, then it makes sense to a focus on finding an impeachable offense.
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If these criminal or impeachable acts are so clear, why would Democrats not include them in the actual impeachment?
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Many Republicans in Congress say Trump's actions regarding Ukraine are not impeachable offenses, and the president denies any wrongdoing.
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The point is not that impeachment should not be mentioned; it is that he has not done anything impeachable.
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So if these crimes and impeachable acts have been largely negated, what is Congress planning to do on Wednesday?
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"The fact that someone has committed an impeachable offense doesn't always mean that you should impeach him," he said.
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Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, said the President has committed "significant constitutional impeachable violations," adding that Democrats needed to act.
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"I think this kind of behavior is impeachable – as a matter of fact, I'm confident it is," he said.
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But some couldn't help but weigh in when asked if they thought Sondland's allegation was potentially an impeachable offense.
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In ordinary times, these acts would by themselves be possible impeachable offenses, and the subject of intense congressional scrutiny.
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"I don't think what he did is going to be an impeachable offense, if he did anything," he said.
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"We have no choice but to attack because the Democrats say there is impeachable material here," Mr. Giuliani said.
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Based solely on what we know publicly now, do you think President Trump has committed impeachable offenses as president?
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"[P]residential attempts to abuse power by putting personal interests above the nation's can surely be impeachable," Conway wrote.
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Still we're not all good if the special counsel determines that Mr. Trump did not commit an impeachable offense.
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Graham's spokesperson, Kevin Bishop, said Friday that Graham still has not heard or seen anything that he deems impeachable.
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But receiving a "personal political benefit" does not transform an otherwise legal action — requesting an investigation — into impeachable conduct.
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Mike Braun of Indiana said he "never" condoned Trump's actions, but added that they were "clearly" not impeachable offenses.
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But receiving a 'personal political benefit' does not transform an otherwise legal action—requesting an investigation—into impeachable conduct.
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Those phrases can be difficult to understand and raise the question of whether they amount to an impeachable offense.
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" Nadler said he wouldn't get into what qualifies as an "impeachable act," but it's "certainly an abuse of power.
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He pointed to an article citing a Democrat on background stating they don't see evidence of an impeachable offense.
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But once the debate shifted to whether Trump's actions were impeachable, people were not as emotionally attached, it added.
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This supermajority imposed no time limit on impeachable offenses, especially when they contributed to the election of a candidate.
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Go deeper: Legal scholars called by Democrats say Trump has committed impeachable offenses Read the witnesses' full opening statements
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing next Wednesday focusing on the definition of an impeachable offense.
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House Republicans issued their own rebuttal report on Monday, saying Democrats had not established an impeachable offense by Trump.
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First, that soliciting foreign interference in an American election does not "rise to the level" of an impeachable offense.
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Now, they can squabble over whether or not this thing is impeachable, a process over which the founders fretted.
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The four-term congressman from Nevada said he was withholding judgment on whether President Trump committed an impeachable offense.
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So, it is still a question of whether this is impeachable or if we should let the election happen.
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As he said in his statement, he believes Trump's conduct in regard to Ukraine was "inappropriate" but not impeachable.
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A few GOP lawmakers have withheld judgment and refused to say whether they believe Trump committed an impeachable offense.
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All three said Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine for political gain met the historical definition of impeachable offenses.
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So it was with some political risk that the authors said the allegation, if true, is an "impeachable" offense.
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I think it's clear from the Mueller report that he obstructed justice, and I think that's an impeachable offense.
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"Without seeing the whistleblower report, no one can make a judgement on whether the allegations are impeachable," former Rep.
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Hundreds of historians, legal scholars, and former prosecutors, regardless of party, have stated that the president committed impeachable offenses.
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"Obstruction of justice has been recognized as an impeachable offense both against President Clinton and President Nixon," Gerhardt said.
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The House Judiciary Committee was simultaneously holding a hearing on impeachable offenses with constitutional law experts as Trump spoke.
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She maintained that whatever the president did, it was not an impeachable offense, no matter what House Democrats say.
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The final chapter is yet to be written, but this much is clear: Trump's guilty of an impeachable offense.
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First, we've been working with Ipsos and PerryUndem on a national survey exploring Americans' beliefs about what is impeachable.
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But the Constitution already defines bribery as an impeachable offense, and bribery is extremely difficult to prove, he wrote.
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Impeachable offenses like "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not defined within the document — leaving them open to legal analysis.
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Three of the scholars, all of whom were invited by Democrats, argued that Mr. Trump's conduct toward Ukraine as presented by the inquiry clearly rose to the level of impeachable bribery or abuse of power and that his efforts to conceal it from Congress could also be construed as an impeachable offense.
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Amash remains the only sitting Republican to publicly say Trump committed impeachable offenses based on his reading of Mueller's report.
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Other Republicans have also criticized the President's actions while arguing they don't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Like the incumbent, no action Clinton might take would render her impeachable—meaning that little would be beyond her reach.
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These are nearly 20 people who looked into Nixon's impeachable conduct and determined that Trump's actions meet the same standard.
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Let's start with the inconvenient fact—inconvenient for Democrats—that President Trump hasn't committed anything close to an impeachable offense.
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Yet crimes are not the same thing as impeachable offenses — which was what Starr was tasked with reporting to Congress.
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Thirty percent described it as misconduct but not impeachable, and an additional 2628 percent said it's within the president's authority.
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Were he to try and give them actual insurance, that would be considered extreme executive overreach and an impeachable offense.
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"The document production — I don't know if that is an impeachable offense," said Wenstrup, who serves on the Intelligence Committee.
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In my view, the public record is replete with facts that strongly suggest the president has committed numerous impeachable offenses.
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Indeed, a self-pardon might well constitute an impeachable offense even if the underlying crime did not fit that category.
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That allowed scores of Democrats to criticize the president for his misbehavior while arguing that what he did wasn't impeachable.
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Not only can abuse of power be impeachable, but a proven quid pro quo can qualify as such an abuse.
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"We can have our disagreements with him, but that doesn't mean there's an impeachable offense," Mr. Hatch said last week.
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It hardly seems that an impeachable offense could have occurred when people privy to the same information draw different conclusions.
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Furthermore, in an impeachable proceeding, the need for additional investigation is blunted by the long and independent investigation by Mueller.
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This makes the president a criminal co-conspirator in the commission of a federal felony, and that's an impeachable offense.
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If a quid pro quo was uttered in Washington but no Ukrainians heard it, did it make an impeachable sound?
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He's called for the House to launch an impeachment inquiry "to determine whether or not Trump has committed impeachable offenses."
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If the story is accurate, it means Trump asked Cohen to commit perjury, a federal crime and potentially impeachable offense.
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To not even try to impeach Trump is to collaborate in the Trumpian fiction that he has done nothing impeachable.
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He has argued during Trump's trial that abuse of power is not an impeachable offense because no crime was committed.
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" But Trump's Ukraine call isn't impeachable on its own, Graham said: "I've read the transcript of the Ukrainian phone call.
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I first saw it at the U.N. I don't see anything remotely that would constitute some kind of impeachable offense.
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"You can't charge a president with impeachable conduct if it doesn't fit within the criteria for the Constitution," Dershowitz said.
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But on Thursday he said that while Mr. Trump had acted inappropriately, his dealings with Ukraine were not impeachable offenses.
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Some Democratic senators and other critics accused him of suggesting that even Nixon was not impeachable, despite his clear crimes.
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House Democrats have defended their choices, even though some claimed that Mueller described other impeachable offenses like obstruction of justice.
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As the record now stands, Trump appears to be guilty of political sins, but not federal felonies or impeachable offenses.
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It's not just Ukraine, it's everything they're doing up till now, going forward is all about what could be impeachable.
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This does not mean political differences that opposition party members might believe are bad for the country become impeachable offenses.
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"Witnesses who testified in the inquiry have denied having awareness of criminal activity or even an impeachable offense," he said.
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He said that Democrats will focus their arguments Thursday on the law and why they believe Trump committed impeachable acts.
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Trump's defense team has argued his behavior doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense, even with Bolton's account.
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Impeachments can be based on noncriminal acts, but that does not mean the noncriminal acts in this case are impeachable.
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House impeachment manager Jerry Nadler: 'I find it amazing' that Trump thinks abuse of power is not an impeachable offense
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"President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," Mr. Feldman said.
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The president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes, and I'm not going to let him divert from that.
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Catch up on the process, find out what Republicans are arguing and read our explanation of what is constitutionally impeachable.
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On Wednesday, McConnell had dismissed criticism as "laughable to think this is anywhere close to an impeachable offense," Politico reported.
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He added that Clinton&aposs actions didn&apost need to break any laws in order to be considered impeachable conduct.
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Now the burden is on the Democrats really, to tell Americans the story of what happened and why it's impeachable.
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The three constitutional professors Nadler called on may have made some compelling legal arguments about why Trump's offenses were impeachable.
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Republicans have lined up in support of Trump, dismissing the evidence as insufficient to accuse Trump of an impeachable offense.
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Democrats listed three "impeachable offenses" at Wednesday's hearing: abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress.
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The hypothetical request to a governor that Karlan described is so obviously impeachable that no one could imagine defending it.
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They also sharply rebutted the notion that impeaching a president who has committed impeachable conduct amounts to reversing an election.
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Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) in March calling on the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Trump committed impeachable offenses. Reps.
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Other Republican lawmakers deflected Vindman's testimony by saying they felt the conduct outlined in the July 25 call was not impeachable.
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"Some of this would be impeachable," Nadler said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to the findings of Mueller's investigation.
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A handful of GOP senators have characterized Trump's actions as inappropriate but not rising to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Our live blog tracked reactions as Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff defended herself saying she did not commit any impeachable crime.
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So now... COULTER: So, yes, Trump is impeachable for doing something that the Supreme Court is about to say is constitutional.
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Read: Republicans Won't Call Trump Racist — But One Said White People Are "People of Color" WASHINGTON — Is racism an impeachable offense?
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"Whether they are important enough to justify impeachment is a different question, but certainly they'd be impeachable offenses," Nadler told CNN.
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" Pressed by host Margaret Brennan on whether actions he considered "over the line" would also be impeachable, Kennedy responded "yeah, probably.
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In light of the timeline, one would expect Democrats to focus on impeachable acts in an effort to turn public opinion.
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The danger of pretending that you want to impeach Trump is that you may accidentally stumble over a potentially impeachable offense.
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Nadler called it an "impeachable offense," though he questioned whether it was worth removing a president from office over just that.
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Read more from The Hill: Nadler: Illegal payments would 'certainly' be impeachable offenses if directed by Trump View the discussion thread.
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The tax returns could also contain evidence of impeachable crimes—something that would seem highly important to the House of Representatives.
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American politics has become so corrupted by money that it is easy to forget where greed ends and impeachable offenses begin.
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"We can have our disagreements with him, but that doesn't mean there's an impeachable offense," Hatch told reporters at the Capitol.
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Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that shutting down special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation could be an impeachable offense for President Donald Trump.
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A Congress that was serious about meeting its responsibility would neither shirk nor rush a judgment about a president's impeachable offenses.
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In May, Amash became the first — and, to date, only — Republican in Congress to say that the president's conduct is impeachable.
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If one wants to remove Mr. Trump from office, one should do it by proving him guilty of an impeachable offense.
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Hating turkey isn't an impeachable offense, of course, but you're better off as an atheist running for office in today's America.
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He announced his departure in July after an investigation by Puerto Rico's House of Representatives found 5 impeachable offenses against him.
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The debate over how to answer that question revolves around a couple of hypotheticals: A crime that's not an impeachable offense?
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But that accusation is incompatible with Mr. Dershowitz's main argument: that an impeachable "high crime and misdemeanor" requires an indictable offense.
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The argument cut against the legal consensus, and against Mr. Dershowitz's own earlier views, that impeachable offenses need not be crimes.
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The question of what constitutes an impeachable offense has been one of the central points of debate in this whole mess.
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With respect to Trump, the issue of whether abuse of power is impeachable is settled: he has been impeached for it.
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On Saturday, committee staff — all Democratic — issued a report outlining in constitutional terms what the panel believes is an impeachable offense.
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It is not only not-impeachable for a president to resist the Congress when it is seeking to undermine his role.
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During the proceedings, Cohen referred to Trump as "racist" and a "disgraced felon," implicating him in about 20163 different impeachable felonies.
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Senator Marco Rubio said impeachment would be too divisive for the country, even if a president engaged in clearly impeachable activity.
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"Purely non-criminal conduct, including abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, are outside the range of impeachable offenses," he said.
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" He then quoted Alexander Hamilton, saying that "impeachable offenses are defined fundamentally by 'the abuse or violation of some public trust.
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The current officeholder's favorite Beach Boy is most likely Mike Love, which alone should qualify him for yet another impeachable offense.
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Tim Scott of South Carolina said bluntly when asked if he thinks what Bolton is reportedly detailing amounts to impeachable conduct.
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Four constitutional scholars will testify on what constitutes an impeachable offense, a prelude to the panel's consideration of articles of impeachment.
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HURD: An impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous and it's not something to be rushed or taken lightly.
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SCHIFF: Well, there's certainly a number of leading Republican voices outside the Congress that are saying that this is impeachable conduct.
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In the end, the hardest part of the impeachment inquiry for Democrats may not be proving Trump committed an impeachable offense.
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Democratic sources say that Monday's hearing will showcase a "pattern of behavior" of Trump that shows impeachable conduct while in office.
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With the proof of impeachable offenses all around them, Republicans on the committee fulminated about the unfairness of it all. Rep.
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" They will decide whether the President has committed any "impeachable offenses," defined as "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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Censure would be better for the country than impeachment: What the president did with his Ukrainian call is clearly not impeachable.
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Three law professors chosen by the Democrats made clear during the lengthy session that they believed Trump's actions constituted impeachable offenses.
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Over 500 legal scholars signed an open letter stating President Donald Trump engaged in "impeachable conduct" in his dealings with Ukraine.
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Democrats did get three professors to testify that they thought what Trump did was impeachable (unsurprisingly, the GOP's sole witness disagreed).
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Still, other GOP members expressed some concern at what they read, though they said it is far from an impeachable offense.
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On Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee took over the inquiry, calling several constitutional law experts to establish what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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Some of these cases can be traced to Trump's unique foibles, like his opaque finances and penchant for committing impeachable offenses.
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The House Judiciary Committee was simultaneously holding a hearing in Washington on impeachable offenses with constitutional law experts as Trump spoke.
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Wallace continued to press Collins, asking whether aid being conditioned on an investigation of the Bidens would be an impeachable offense.
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Karlan was one of three legal scholars called by Democrats who testified Wednesday that they believed President Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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Republicans, in dissenting views, accused Democrats of running an unfair process that did not establish the President committed any impeachable offenses.
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This action crossed a clear red line, and in my view, there is no doubt that this is an impeachable act.
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Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, said at the House Judiciary Committee's first impeachment hearing on Wednesday that if President Trump's dealings with Ukraine are not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable Why it matters: Gerhardt is one of the three legal scholars called by Democrats to discuss the constitutional grounds for impeachment.
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If she doesn't think that, then she shouldn't open her mouth in the first place and say she thinks there's impeachable conduct.
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While the standard for impeachable offenses in the Constitution is not very specific, the standard for involuntary succession is even less specific.
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So if Donald Trump, for instance, committed perjury about some real estate deal in Manhattan, that would not be an impeachable offense.
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There is no specific definition of an impeachable crime, in the way that there is a definition of robbery, assault or embezzlement.
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It may have happened in the case of Trump's scandalous, and perhaps impeachable, request that Ukraine investigate his political rival Joe Biden.
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Polling, popular opinion, all that aside, do you think Trump has committed impeachable offenses when you are talking about checks and balance?
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Ultimately, Giuliani argued that since there's no evidence Trump was directly involved in the hacking of Democratic targets, he's done nothing impeachable.
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Presidential campaigns often pay fines for violating campaign-finance laws, but no rational person would argue that those peccadillos constitute impeachable offences.
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In 1974 the House felt that obstructing a federal investigation, abusing executive power and ignoring subpoenas constituted impeachable offences committed by Nixon.
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All of that I think is well supported but it doesn&apost make it an impeachable offense it may make it contempt.
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"Let's be clear: In the past, there has been strong bipartisan agreement that obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense," she said.
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This is something that we have to get to bottom of and it's starting to become something akin to an impeachable offense.
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Smearing is not good enough in an impeachment effort; Democrats would have to prove — repeat, prove — that Kavanaugh has committed impeachable offenses.
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"A president who distorts the electoral process and breaks the law in doing so is someone who is potentially impeachable," Feldman argued.
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I appeared in Congress with other experts to debate that question and maintained that lying under oath clearly was an impeachable offense.
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"Even if there was a quid pro quo, which would not have been appropriate, it would not be an impeachable offense," Rep.
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It also may be legally daunting, though I am aware of no compelling evidence of serious or impeachable crimes by President Trump.
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" CNN's @jaketapper: "If it is proven that the President directed or coordinated with Cohen to commit these felonies … are those impeachable offenses?
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A majority of House Democrats and some presidential candidates expressed support for such an inquiry, citing the call as the impeachable offense.
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When Democrats reclaimed the House, most agreed on Pelosi's strategy: Investigate first, impeach later—provided, of course, the investigations produce impeachable offenses.
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Here are a few of the most salient: Amash issued a series of tweets conveying his concern that these are impeachable acts.
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Yet, the Constitution contemplates that members will move to impeach not when the politics are right but when impeachable offenses are present.
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Everything else we heard was about policy disagreements with the president over Ukraine, which is even less exciting than it is impeachable.
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Michigan Representative Justin Amash, a devout libertarian Republican, said this week that the Mueller report describes "impeachable crimes" on the president's part.
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Conduct that reinforces that interference may be sufficiently subversive to rise to the level of an impeachable offense, even if not criminal.
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If he learns it has criminal or impeachable offenses in it, he will do everything in his power to block its release.
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Now, it would be impeachable, I think—it would be proactive disloyalty and a high crime or misdemeanor, but it's not treason.
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There wasn't a perfect consensus, but most experts agreed that Trump's tweet falls pretty clearly within our understanding of an impeachable offense.
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The "abuse of power" theory of impeachable offenses allows the President and his supporters the right of reply in the political realm.
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"Look, if I believed everything the Democrats are saying I would still say this isn't an impeachable offense," said Oklahoma Republican Rep.
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It remains unclear both whether Mr. Trump has committed impeachable offenses and whether, if he has, impeachment is a prudent political remedy.
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"In Watergate, Congress acted by finding that interfering with the impeachment inquiry was in fact itself an impeachable offense," Mr. Conway said.
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Even many Americans who dislike Mr. Trump will, absent overwhelming evidence of impeachable offenses, balk at efforts to remove a sitting president.
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Alexander has indicated he will vote to acquit Trump because he doesn't think Trump's actions rose to the level of impeachable offenses.
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Now he's engaged in a crude, obvious effort to stonewall the House impeachment inquiry that is clearly an impeachable offense in itself.
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They disagree not only on how to interpret the facts of the case, but on what actually constitutes an impeachable offense, too.
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"Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts," Mr. Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, said.
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" By The Post's Erica Werner, Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade "Senate Republicans seize on Dershowitz argument, say Trump's actions aren't impeachable.
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Dershowitz also argued that both of Democrats' articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — are not legitimate impeachable offenses.
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"We've got lawyers ... that represent multiple schools of thought on what is and is not an impeachable offense," Sekulow told reporters Thursday.
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Sekulow also claimed that House Democrats were trying to remove Trump from office over a foreign policy disagreement, not an impeachable offense.
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""For it to be impeachable you would have to discern that he or she made a decision solely ... on the corrupt motives.
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Other constitutional lawyers, however, have differed with Dershowitz's argument that an actual crime must have been committed to have an impeachable offense.
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Even if Trump did abuse his office, the team continued, that's not an impeachable offense because it violates no specific federal law.
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Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said that Trump had acted inappropriately but that, at the end of the day, his conduct wasn't impeachable.
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Their first article alleging an impeachable act on his part makes no claim of a crime or any misdeed of similar weight.
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"These are generally higher numbers than during the Mueller investigation and most consider his actions inappropriate, even if not impeachable," he said.
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Using such powers to pressure another country to investigate a political opponent can be a crime as well as an impeachable offense.
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Trump's lawyers, however, have said it's not impeachable for a president to request dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country.
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Whether that would rise to the level of an impeachable offense, or merit something less draconian such as censure, is another question.
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Republicans, on the other hand, called for the complaint's public release, stating that they do not believe Trump committed an impeachable offense.
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In 1974, when the president defied some impeachment subpoenas, many congressional Republicans said that that was, all by itself, an impeachable offense.
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If, however, a President was impeached, acquitted, and then committed new impeachable acts, the House could be more willing to impeach again.
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But they said that even if they were true, the conduct is not impeachable, an argument many Senate Republicans are now echoing.
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Mr. Nadler was followed by a series of House prosecutors charged with putting Mr. Trump's behavior into a framework of impeachable offenses.
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Asked if she thought Trump had committed impeachable offenses, she stared straight ahead and glided by the cameras without a word. Rep.
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The Mazars subpoena predates House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement that Democrats were undertaking an investigation into whether the president committed impeachable offenses.
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Y., spent a large chunk of time arguing that Trump's conduct is impeachable, even if it doesn't violate a specific criminal law.
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"The House does not need the approval of the judiciary to obtain evidence of impeachable offenses from executive branch officials," he wrote.
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Obstruction of Congress is impeachable under the Constitution because it undercuts the basic structure of democracy that is founded in this country.
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If the House determines that Trump has committed impeachable offenses, then the Senate will conduct a trial on whether to remove Trump.
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"An impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear, and unambiguous, and it's not something to be rushed or taken lightly," Hurd said.
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Democrats have also focused a lot on bribery over the last few weeks, which is in the Constitution as an impeachable offense.
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"The resolution lowers the bar in defining what are 'high crimes and misdemeanors' — the ambiguous standard for an impeachable offense," Conway wrote.
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The three professors whom Democrats invited all testified that Mr Trump had committed impeachable offences; the lone invited by the Republicans disagreed.
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That is, the Framers took care to provide that the president cannot thwart his own impeachment by pardoning himself of impeachable offenses.
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The House inquiry is exploring whether the president asking a foreign country for information about a political opponent is an impeachable offense.
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The panel also fleshed out reasons why actions that fall within a president's legitimate authority can still, when abused, constitute impeachable conduct.
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I still think his alleged campaign-finance violations in connection to the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal payoffs are criminal and impeachable.
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"Whether or not a pardon of, say, Kushner is an impeachable offense has little to do with the technicalities of contempt law."
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"I believe President Trump has probably committed impeachable offenses, and I think Bob Mueller should come to Congress and testify," Bennet said. 4.
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What the president did was wrong, they will say, probably softly and off-camera, and then declare that the offense is not impeachable.
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Everything's made up, and the rules don't matter, but they really do because the constitution says high crimes and misdemeanors shall be impeachable.
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Republicans don't want any additional evidence or facts or damning testimony that further proves just how unlawful, abusive, unfit and impeachable Trump is.
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Most of the debate surrounding the possibility that Trump has committed impeachable offenses has centered on the Russia investigation, and for good reason.
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I'm talking about Republican lawmakers who know that the president's Ukraine machinations are indefensible and impeachable, particularly after Tuesday's disclosures by Lt. Col.
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CNN Legal Analyst Elie Honig weighs in by explaining that President Trump's Ukraine dealings may exceed impeachable acts -- he may have committed crimes.
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" Jay Sekulow, the president's personal lawyer: "These articles fail on their face as they do not meet the constitutional standard for impeachable offenses.
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A justice on the Philippine supreme court has warned Mr Duterte that ceding the shoal would be unconstitutional, and thus an impeachable offence.
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In 1970 Gerald Ford, then a congressman, observed that "an impeachable offence is whatever a majority of the House" believes it to be.
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" Nadler said that "to sabotage a fair election would be an impeachable offense," but added: "Impeachment is a long way down the road.
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" Coleman continued: "It's wrong and it needs to be handled and looked at by the Congress because I believe it's an impeachable offense.
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The White House lawyers are advocating that the Senate conclude that Bolton's story, even if true, falls short of showing an impeachable offense.
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Lying to Congress is a crime, and if Trump tries to spin facts or gives false information, he would commit an impeachable offense.
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Of course, that depends on whether Congress is seriously pursuing impeachable offenses or just trying to wound a president who is relatively popular.
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Democratic witnesses and members insisted that such perjury is not an impeachable offense when it concerned an affair with a White House intern.
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The prosecutors and jurors are elected officials, not lawyers and ordinary citizens; nobody has ever spelled out precisely what constitutes an impeachable offence.
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No real harm, no impeachable foul, they contend, and did not President Barack Obama decline to provide the Ukrainians with Javelin antitank missiles?
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This implies that asking for foreign help in an American election is perfectly fine; the impeachable conduct would be offering something in return.
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President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is defying a House subpoena from Democrats probing possible impeachable offences by US President Donald Trump.
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Democrats are suggesting Trump committed an impeachable offense and could be sent to prison when his term in the White House is over.
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It is far from established that a request or even a demand for investigations is a criminal or impeachable offense in this context.
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Republicans are focused on hammering home the message that none of the witnesses so far have directly linked Trump to an impeachable offense.
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"I think he's committed impeachable offenses and he ought to be impeached," said Cohen, who chairs the Judiciary Committee's subpanel on the Constitution.
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It is up to the House of Representatives to set out what it finds to be an impeachable offense and vote on it.
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"I can't answer that right now," she responded later when another member of the crowd asked if Trump had committed any impeachable offense.
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I don't think it's likely, but there's enough smoke around to suggest that there might be impeachable conduct that we should worry about.
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But Graham told Axios that he did not consider the call between Trump and Zelensky to be enough evidence of an impeachable offense.
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If the story turns out to be true, it means Trump asked Cohen to commit perjury, a federal crime and potentially impeachable offense.
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Instead, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office for an action that even her opponents admitted was not an impeachable offense.
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Ms. Pressley struggled to respond when the debate moderator, the newsman Jim Braude, pressed her on whether Mr. Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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"I'm sorry, but keeping people trapped on a cruise ship even if they don't have coronavirus should be an impeachable offence," quipped Meyers.
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After all, if there was a quid pro quo but that's not impeachable, or even inappropriate, then Bolton's testimony might be considered moot.
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Dershowitz, in another noteworthy moment from the trial, argued Monday that, even if true, Bolton's allegations did not amount to an impeachable offense.
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Many Republicans moved quickly on Tuesday to adopt Mr. Dershowitz's arguments that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were not impeachable offenses.
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Then, the President allowed allied senators to condemn his behavior while arguing that it did not rise to the level of impeachable offenses.
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Even if Democrats prove Trump abused his power, former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz says, the Constitution does not make that an impeachable offense.
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WASHINGTON — Scholars have roundly rejected a central argument of President Trump's lawyers that abuse of power is not by itself an impeachable offense.
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House Democrats&apos impeachment investigation is centered on whether Trump committed an impeachable abuse of power in seeking politically motivated investigations from Ukraine.
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Some Republicans conceded that Mr. Trump did in fact do what he was accused of doing but maintained that it was not impeachable.
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For all of these reasons, we need to move beyond the hyperventilated pronouncements of criminal conduct or impeachable offenses based on this memo.
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"I have previously said that abuse of power is impeachable, but it is the most difficult of potential impeachment claims," he wrote recently.
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" Hours later, Mr. Trump tweeted: "Republicans, don't be led into the fools trap of saying it was not perfect, but is not impeachable.
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Trump's refusal to cooperate or comply is itself an impeachable offense, one more transgression to add to any articles drafted by the House.
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HB: So we heard a lot about bribery the last few weeks and how that's a crime under the Constitution that is impeachable.
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Despite the acquittal, Green said, he thinks the president understands the House is committed to holding him responsible for any future impeachable offenses.
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But broad support for the notion that Mr Trump's conduct was impeachable is not enough to convince a critical mass of Republican senators.
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The circumstances are obviously different this time around, not least because the evidence of the impeachable offenses is already out in the open.
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They have decided to rest their entire case on the proposition that Trump's corruption is impeachable, but Biden's is completely fine, noble even.
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Six House committees are expected to continue investigating President Trump on impeachable offenses and to send their strongest cases to the Judiciary Committee.
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That means we can expect a lot of talk about what is and isn't impeachable and many, many, many references to Alexander Hamilton.
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"You have a very important obligation, and that is ultimately to decide whether the president made impeachable offenses," said impeachment manager Zoe Lofgren.
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Jerry Nadler cited both when he argued that abuse of power is an impeachable offense, a position that many constitutional scholars have reaffirmed.
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Republicans, in particular, are pointing to legal arguments by Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz, who said that Bolton's allegations -- if true -- are not impeachable.
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Bringing this up on a call to the president of Ukraine was probably a boneheaded thing to do, but not an impeachable one.
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"Impeachable bribery occurs when the president offers, solicits, or accepts something of personal value to influence his own official actions," the report states.
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Three witnesses selected by Democrats testified that they believed Trump committed impeachable offenses and delivered scathing testimony about the president's conduct toward Ukraine.
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So how do we have an impeachable offense here when there's no actual misdeed and no one even claiming to be a victim?
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His use of pardons, his rampant violation of campaign finance laws, even his day-to-day conduct could all be constituted as impeachable.
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Justin Amash — an independent who left the Republican Party earlier this year after saying Trump had committed "impeachable conduct" — voted with Democrats. Rep.
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"This action crossed a clear red line, and in my view, there is no doubt this is an impeachable act," the statement said.
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There is good authority from the founding era that an effort to corrupt the electoral process ahead of an election might be impeachable.
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Even if the latest allegations against Kavanaugh were proven accurate, abusive behavior in college 30 years ago hardly makes for an impeachable offense.
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If Republican senators vote to acquit Trump of impeachable offenses next year, they will effectively make a statement that such conduct is permissible.
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It's likely that Trump didn't even understand what he was doing was dangerous — or, in the case of Comey, potentially illegal and impeachable.
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That conversation has led lawmakers of both parties to accuse Trump of obstruction of justice, with several openly saying it's an impeachable offense.
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And as to the argument that funding to Ukraine was indeed restored, the Cato Institute's Gene Healy pointed out in October that an unsuccessful or "incompetent" attempt to commit an impeachable act doesn't make it less impeachable: The Nixon crew botched most of the schemes it undertook, from the Watergate caper to the attempt to audit the president's political enemies.
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They also ignore the fact that many of the impeachable offenses committed by this president are beyond the scope of the special counsel's investigation.
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Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed "impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally misleading the public.
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The most serious impeachable offense in the new request is the alleged interference by the president in investigations into the massive Petrobras corruption scandal.
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On Monday, Messitte asked Shumate if a benefit received in exchange for an official act wasn't simply bribery, which was already an impeachable offense.
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You may look at it and conclude that it doesn't rise to an impeachable offense -- that's your job -- but I'm giving this to you.
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Impeding a federal investigation and accepting help from a foreign adversary are precisely the sorts of offences that the founders would have considered impeachable.
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Justin Amash (R-Mich.) on Monday night for saying President Trump "has engaged in impeachable conduct" over the Mueller report, The Hill first reported.
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If officials discover the governor did commit impeachable acts, and a vote to impeach passes the House, the issue would go to the Senate.
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Trump could commit any number of impeachable offenses without being investigated by Congress if the majority Republicans lack the political impetus for doing so.
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For the most part, Republicans focused their arguments on what they claimed was a lack of evidence that Trump had committed an impeachable offense.
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For three years, Democrats in Congress have insisted that a variety of criminal and impeachable acts were established as part of the Russia investigation.
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Trump's financial affairs, especially with regard to Russia, remain opaque, but it's possible to imagine how they might give rise to an impeachable offense.
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Here, he conflates Mueller's criminal inquiry with the congressional responsibility to assess whether or not an impeachable offense should be charged against the president.
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Currently, six House committees are investigating Trump for impeachable offenses, and they are expected to send their strongest cases to the House Judiciary Committee.
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Amash also insisted that President Trump has "engaged in impeachable conduct," though he conspicuously neglected to explicitly call for any impeachment proceedings to begin.
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Instead, her trial revolved around a contentious legal question of whether she committed an impeachable offense by employing budgetary tricks to conceal yawning deficits.
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Any proof that Trump had offered a pardon in return for Cohen's testimony would be an abuse of power and possibly an impeachable offense.
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Joe Biden said the phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president shows a "blatant abuse of power," and an impeachable offense.
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In the meantime, Congress again overwhelmingly rejected impeachment with a vote this week in which members tried to add bigotry as an impeachable offense.
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The impeachment process can be thought of as somewhat analogous to a criminal proceeding, even though impeachable offenses don't have to be criminal offenses.
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King said that it would be a "crisis" if Trump fired Mueller, but noted that he does not see it as an impeachable offense.
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Claire McCaskill in her bid for re-election this year, said Wednesday that the report contains "impeachable" evidence and called for the governor's resignation.
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The debate about removing her from office, which is convulsing a polarized nation, centers on a crucial question: Did she commit an impeachable offense?
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Republicans on Thursday mostly shrugged at Comey's disclosures, acknowledging that Trump's actions were inappropriate but rejecting the notion that they were criminal or impeachable.
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President Donald Trump's lead attorney Rudy Giuliani said that shutting down the special counsel's Russia investigation could be an impeachable offense for the president.
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The question of whether Trump broke the law, or committed impeachable offenses, will be endlessly debated in the days, weeks, and months to come.
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This can include calling witnesses, collecting documents and debating whether the behavior in question constitutes an impeachable offense, which the Constitution only ambiguously defines.
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Catch up quick: Rosselló announced his departure in July after an investigation by Puerto Rico's House of Representatives found 5 impeachable offenses against him.
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His lawyers fear that if Mr. Trump answers, he risks exposing himself to accusations of lying to investigators, a potential crime or impeachable offense.
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Forty-three percent said Collins voted to acquit Trump more because she thought the president didn't commit any impeachable offenses, based on the poll.
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Otherwise, though, what falls under the category of impeachable offenses is a matter that floats free from the rest of the American legal code.
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"Nothing in the Bolton revelations – even if true – would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense," Dershowitz declared.
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"For it to be impeachable you would have to discern that he or she made a decision solely ... on the corrupt motives," he added.
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Dershowitz said the president's legal team will show "it's not true" and what was shown was "presented incompletely" and does not demonstrate impeachable offenses.
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But in espousing the view that abuse of power can be an impeachable offense, he put himself squarely in the mainstream of legal thinking.
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Most recently, the 116th House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstructing Congress — and explained why it felt each was an impeachable offense.
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Most Americans felt that Trump had committed an impeachable offense, but barely half favored removing him by the constitutional equivalent of the death penalty.
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The committee's Democrats displayed three impeachable offenses on screens during the hearing: abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of Congress, and obstruction of justice.
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It is now clear, however, that Republicans are unlikely to do anything to censure him if he were to again engage in impeachable misconduct.
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First, some of Trump's defenders, including several senators who voted to acquit, argued that Trump's conduct, even if wrong or improper, was not impeachable.
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Republicans have pushed back on the inquiry, arguing that Democrats have rushed the process and assert the president has not engaged in impeachable behavior.
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The solicitation or acceptance of a bribe under the authority of political office is a serious breach of the public trust and, therefore, impeachable.
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To try something similar with your class, first make sure students fully understand the impeachment process, including how the Constitution defines "impeachable" (explained above).
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Sekulow argued that even if Bolton's allegations were true, they don't describe impeachable conduct, and read statements from the Trump administration denying their validity.
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This strongly suggests House Democrats never were really interested in the truth, but only in marketing unsupportable claims that the president committed impeachable offenses.
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On Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing in which three constitutional law experts called by Democratic lawmakers said Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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If he remains in office, they write, "he will remain a threat to national security," implying that he is continuing to commit impeachable offenses.
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Was Trump committing an impeachable offense, or was he doing what world leaders do on occasion -- asking an ally for assistance into potential corruption?
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Trump's troops on the committee were quick to embrace the President's latest office-expanding defense: that abuse of power is not an impeachable offense.
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"If you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses, you will expand the space for executive conduct," Turley testified in 1998.
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But don't forget: The majority of legal scholars testifying said, unequivocally, the president's actions indicated abuse of power, and that it was impeachable behavior.
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On December 4th Mr Collins's committee invited four law professors to testify about the constitutional basis for impeachment and the nature of impeachable offences.
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"Most voters believe that the president's actions don't rise to the level of impeachable offenses even if some of them were inappropriate," said Penn.
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An overriding point of contention is whether Trump's conduct rises to the level of an impeachable offense, a debate tailor-made for law professors.
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The George Washington University Law School professor argued Trump's actions -- allegedly withholding military aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden -- were not impeachable.
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold its second public impeachment hearing Monday, following its first last week, which addressed what constitutes an impeachable offense.
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No court can tell the Congress what offenses are impeachable offenses and what are not; those decisions are made by each member of Congress.
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House Democrats appeared all the more convinced that the president has committed impeachable offenses, with House Republicans equally committed to standing by their man.
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Professor Jonathan Turley, the Republican witness and a contributor to The Hill, was not directly asked whether he believed Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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Republicans have sought throughout the public impeachment hearings to draw out opinions from witnesses about whether Trump committed a crime or an impeachable offense.
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"Founding Era practice confirms the Constitution's original meaning — investigations of unlawful actions by an impeachable official cannot proceed through the legislative power," she wrote.
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Now the public debate begins: Did Mr. Trump commit an impeachable offense, and should he be removed from office prior to the November elections?
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For two years, members of this Committee have declared that criminal and impeachable acts were established for everything from treason to conspiracy to obstruction.
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It could get worse but what Comey described in his testimony was boorish and even brutish but not necessarily an indictable or impeachable offense.
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An investigation, brought forth by Puerto Rico's House of Representatives into possible wrongdoing including corruption and conflicts of interest, revealed 5 impeachable offenses against Gov.
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Amash over the weekend became the first, and so far only, Republican to publicly describe Trump's conduct as impeachable, citing special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
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" On Saturday, Amash, a frequent Trump critic, said his thorough review of the Mueller report led him to conclude the President engaged in "impeachable conduct.
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The reports give more fodder for Democrats who argue Trump committed impeachable offenses by using his power to set foreign policy for personal political gain.
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In full view of the world and the American people, Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts.
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Mulvaney could be getting it all out into the open, with an aim to minimize and normalize behavior that would once have been thought impeachable.
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Democrats have failed to galvanize public opinion to the view that Trump's controversial July 25 phone conversation with the Ukrainian president was an impeachable offense.
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The latest polling shows that Democrats think it is impeachable and Republicans don't, and that voters in swing states aren't on board with this yet.
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The current situation has arisen not as a result of Democratic overreach but because the facts increasingly indicate that the President has committed impeachable violations.
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They also asserted that, even if Trump did abuse his power and obstruct Congress, that conduct wouldn't be impeachable since neither constitutes a technical crime.
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Elections have consequences, and House Democrats have every right to investigate this matter and determine if it rises to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Previous commentators have focused on the definition of an impeachable act, then assumed that justified suspicion of such conduct means a trial in the Senate.
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If he is charged with crimes or impeachable offenses that do not have their origins in politically charged spying, then his allegations will be moot.
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Green's adamant Trump's committed impeachable offenses, but his beef has nothing to do with Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Russians meddled in the 2016 elections.
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His attitude has allowed Pelosi to ease the pressure -- arguing that despite what may be impeachable offenses, Democrats should not play into the President's hands.
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"Obstruction in the case of Nixon and in the case of Clinton in the late '90s has been considered an impeachable offense," he said. Rep.
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An impeachable offense need not even be a criminal offense, so there's no reason why ignorance of the law would be a defense to impeachment.
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Elijah Cummings: In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on May 16, Cummings said obstruction of justice by the President would be an impeachable offense.
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Comey's firing brought accusations, primarily from Democrats, that Trump may have obstructed an ongoing Justice Department investigation — an impeachable offense, in the eyes of Green.
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And after reading it, he reached the conclusion that his colleagues in the Republican Party have been trying to undermine: that Trump's conduct was impeachable.
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The charge against her—that she tampered with government accounts to conceal the size of the budget deficit—was not an impeachable offence, she insisted.
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Since crimes committed before a president takes office may not be impeachable offenses, the second clause of the constitutional provision would not limit the president.
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As a practical matter, moreover, Trump has clearly not committed impeachable offenses, and he is obviously not going to be impeached and removed from office.
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The report does not make any legal recommendations about whether Nixon's misconduct was an impeachable offense but rather outlines the evidence gathered in the probe.
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The complaint led Democrats to launch a formal inquiry to probe whether Trump committed impeachable offences in attempting to pressure Ukraine to do his bidding.
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The Committee has repeatedly state that if the grand jury materials reveal new evidence of impeachable offenses, the Committee may recommend new articles of impeachment.
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Their argument may also make more sense as impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors, which are abuses of power not limited to technical statutory felonies.
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Although it is clear that Trump lied about engaging in business dealings in Russia during the campaign, this alone would not be an impeachable offense.
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But now a Republican congressman, Michigan's Justin Amash, has declared that Donald Trump has "engaged in impeachable conduct," and the debate has resumed in earnest.
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"President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct," Mr. Amash wrote in a series of messages after reading the redacted version of the 448-page report.
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While grass-roots groups have expressed support for Nadler's actions, they are pushing to get lawmakers on the record about whether Trump's conduct is impeachable.
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Lead House manager Adam Schiff: If abuse of power isn't impeachable, Trump could 'offer Alaska to the Russians' or 'let Jared Kushner run the country'
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A president's use of his power for his own political gain, at the expense of the public interest, is the quintessence of an impeachable offense.
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Reckless conduct, obstruction of justice, and violating economic laws are only a few of the impeachable offenses which should have led to an earlier inquiry.
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Dershowitz said if a president used a holdup of money to pressure Israel to commit to freezing settlements, no one would view that as impeachable.
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Dershowitz has emerged as one of Trump's highest-profile legal defenders, often appearing on cable news to maintain that the president's actions were not impeachable.
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They believe the lack of cooperation will add fuel to allegations that the obstruction itself is an impeachable offense, according to The Hill's Mike Lillis.
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After all, neither Biden is actually a relevant witness: neither has insight into whether Mr. Trump committed the impeachable offenses of which he stands accused.
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But the Democrats argued in their memorandum that impeachable actions "need not be indictable offenses," a theory that has been espoused by many legal scholars.
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"The argument that only criminal offenses are impeachable has died a thousand deaths in the writings of all the experts on the subject," he wrote.
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"Disagreeing with the President's decisions on foreign policy matters or whose advice he's going to take is in no way an impeachable offense," Sekulow argued.
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The House of Representatives' move to impeach Trump is akin to handing down a criminal indictment, meaning lawmakers believe the president engaged in impeachable conduct.
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"If any president had done what The Times reported about the content of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense," Dershowitz said.
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The House Judiciary Committee reassessed what the Constitution considers impeachable offenses on Saturday, two days after Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly pushed the impeachment inquiry forward.
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What they're saying: Go deeper: Legal scholars called by Democrats say Trump has committed impeachable offenses Pelosi asks House to proceed with articles of impeachment
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The two Democrats previously disagreed on Twitter over how Democrats should approach the midterms, with Steyer arguing that Trump has already committed multiple impeachable offenses.
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Thus, a genuine examination of the relevant history here not only undermines Nunes's facile analogy, but also sets up the foundation for another impeachable offense.
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While some Republicans say that Trump's request for Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his family was inappropriate, they argue it's not an impeachable offense.
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The Florida congressman also received attention for his intense questioning of a Democratic witness on a panel of law professors weighing in on impeachable conduct.
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Then, when details of the Ukraine call were revealed and the evidence of impeachable behavior was persuasive, she moved quickly and effectively, launching the inquiry.
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When a president uses his power for his own political gain, at the expense of the public, it is the epitome of an impeachable offense.
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But Sekulow also argued Tuesday that even if Bolton's account were accurate, the president's actions are not impeachable, because he has not committed any crime.
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But when asked whether "pressuring the president of Ukraine for help in investigating" the Bidens is an impeachable offense, that number climbed to 50 percent.
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The document also denies the charges against Trump, asserting that the first article – accusing Trump of abuse of power – fails to state an impeachable offense.
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They will say the charges against him are unconstitutional and that abuse of power is not a criminal offense and therefore not an impeachable one.
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"I'm still thinking about it," the Florida Republican said in an interview with The Associated Press when asked if he thought Trump's conduct is impeachable.
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"Right now he's saying that an abuse of power is not an impeachable offense, but back in the '90s, he says it was," said Noah.
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I maintained in the Clinton testimony, and still maintain in my Trump testimony, that perjury on any subject by a sitting president is clearly impeachable.
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It's a chance for Congress and voters to hear the evidence against a president and decide which rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Before the Ukraine matter ever became public, Democrats on the committee spent months trying to build a case that Mr. Mueller's findings included impeachable conduct.
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There are a lot of members of Congress who believe that there are impeachable offenses beyond Ukraine, that have to do with the Mueller report.
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"It is not difficult to defend this President because this President did nothing that is impeachable," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican.
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That in addition to the case for bribery or abuse of power that they're currently making, this may constitute witness intimidation, potentially another impeachable offense.
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The Constitution says that "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" are impeachable (a "high crime" means something done by a person in power).
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"We believe this conduct is impeachable, and should never take place again under our constitutional system," said Raskin, who was once a constitutional law professor.
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It will then suggest Trump committed an impeachable abuse of power when he pressured Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rivals ahead of the 2020 campaign.
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It's the facts that need to be introduced to the American people to hear for the most impeachable President in the history of this country.
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The committee's report on President Trump 's almost certainly impeachable dealings with Ukraine would be ready soon after the members returned from the holiday break.
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Toomey and Cornyn have said the president should not have discussed Biden with Zelensky, but that the conversation between the two leaders is not impeachable.
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"Obstruction of justice in the case of Nixon, in the case of Clinton in the late 90s, has been considered an impeachable offense," Curbelo said.
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The comparison between Nixon and Trump is a common one these days, but mostly because both are facing special counsel investigations and have committed impeachable offenses.
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At his first town hall since publicly stating Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct on May 29, Amash was greeted in Michigan with a standing ovation.
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So if you didn't have kinfolk up North, then … you didn't get educated … which is treason and impeachable, because you're not protecting the oath of office.
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday that evidence of obstruction by President Donald Trump laid out in the Mueller report would be impeachable if proven.
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While several Republican senators on Thursday and Friday conceded that they believe the president acted inappropriately, they argued it did not amount to an impeachable offense.
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Democrats have argued that even if no favors were exchanged, Trump committed an impeachable offense in asking a foreign country to interfere in a US election.
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Hurd was asked on CNN's "The Situation Room" whether withholding nearly $400 million in aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating Trump's political opponents was impeachable conduct.
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But "it would be more impactful if Mueller would make an opinion himself about whether the president's conduct amounted to an impeachable offense," Lewis told CNBC.
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Justin Amash, turning on the fifth-term Republican lawmaker after he tweeted that President Trump has engaged in "impeachable conduct," the Detroit News reported on Wednesday.
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Jimenez, however, released a statement Monday saying he is awaiting the findings of the committee that was created Friday to determine whether Rosselló committed impeachable offenses.
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And that federal court didn't condemn such a request by the president as criminal or impeachable; in fact, the request was not even worthy of criticism.
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Her testimony comes a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Mr. Trump of bribery, which the Constitution calls an impeachable offense, in his dealings with Ukraine.
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As soon as she walked away, another group of reporters asked if she had seen anything that qualified as an impeachable offense in the House transcripts.
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Pressed at one point by a Republican to agree that a particular offense was not impeachable, Mr. Kent flashed some steely contempt for such political gamesmanship.
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These comments from Schiff follow a marked shift in the rhetoric used by Democrats to describe what they believe are impeachable offenses committed by President Trump.
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Certainly, they're impeachable offenses, because, even though they were committed before the President became President, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office.
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"I think he committed impeachable offenses, but we have to go through the process," Bennet said of Trump during a CNN presidential town hall Thursday night.
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The inhumane treatment of these migrants is not an impeachable crime, but it may prove to be the deepest scar his presidency leaves on the nation.
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If you drew a Venn diagram, with one circle representing criminality and the other representing impeachable offenses, you would have a lot of non-overlapping space.
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Earlier this week, McCarthy warned that there are "a lot of members who would have to leave" Congress if campaign-finance violations amounted to impeachable offenses.
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The inquiry centers around whether Trump's attempts to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter amount to an impeachable offense.
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"President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct," Mr. Amash wrote in a series of Twitter messages after reading the redacted version of the 448-page report.
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He became the first Republican in Congress to say that the report of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, showed that President Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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"We must begin impeachment proceedings and investigate if the president committed impeachable offenses," Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, wrote on Twitter just before the call.
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" And the stakes are too high to risk being interviewed under those circumstances, he added: "That becomes not just a prosecutable offense, but an impeachable offense.
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"I will allow that to enter into my decision who to vote for, but it's not an impeachable offense," the former Harvard Law School professor said.
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Whether it is impeachable will be decided by the House, which will determine if it amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors," as outlined in the Constitution.
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Yet the quest for such projects persisted — including in the strange Ukrainian twilight where Donald Trump may have finally found his way to an impeachable offense.
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Professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's legal team, offered up this notion that, even if the allegations against Trump are true, they are not impeachable.
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Earlier in the week, Republicans latched on to Dershowitz's argument that even if the allegations against Trump proved to be true, his actions are not impeachable.
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Lindsey Graham criticized President Trump for calling on the Chinese to investigate Joe Biden — but the South Carolina Republican declined to call it an impeachable action.
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They said they feel President Trump's impeachable offenses extended past the one July 2019 phone call with Ukraine around which the whole impeachment case has revolved.
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Blackman acknowledges that an impeachable offense "need not be criminal," and he disagrees with Trumpworld's constant assertion that impeachment amounts to the overturning of an election.
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But Dershowitz told the Senate on Monday evening that the reported Bolton claims, disruptive as they might be, did not constitute impeachable offenses even if true.
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The committee could also hear from expert witnesses to define impeachable offenses and offer Mr. Trump and his legal team a chance to present exculpatory evidence.
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Between the lines: The Constitution's standards for impeachable offenses like "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not defined within the document — leaving them open to legal analysis.
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Driving the news ... Democrats displayed three impeachable offenses on the screens in the room: Abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of Congress, and obstruction of justice.
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"This unconstitutional travesty resulted in two baseless articles of impeachment that lack any support in evidence and fail even to describe any impeachable offense," she said.
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Schiff is one of a handful of House Democrats leading an investigation into whether Trump may have committed an impeachable offense surrounding his dealings with Ukraine.
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Mr. Dershowitz has been wrong on the law many times in this trial, but even by his standard, the articles of impeachment express an impeachable offense.
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But Schiff, while leaving the door open to litigation, has hinted that he'll skip the lawsuits and simply deem non-compliance more evidence of impeachable obstruction.
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Holding up military assistance to coerce Ukraine into investigating Mr. Biden is itself a grave, impeachable abuse of power if done for personal and political reasons.
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Juan Williams: Democrats must keep their eyes on impeachment prize The Memo: Trump's rage may backfire on impeachment MORE held that Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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Trump's counsel, however, has argued that the allegations aren't substantive enough to be considered — and that even if true, they do not constitute an impeachable act.
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But he then went a step further and made a case that even quid pro quos that most everyone would agree are unacceptable aren't impeachable offenses.
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Even if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution's 'treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors' standard for an impeachable offense.
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So Trump has done things that meet the standard of impeachment but impeaching him for committing impeachable acts would be, uh, bad for our partisan divide?
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Pelosi's statement follows the House Judiciary Committee's first impeachment hearing Wednesday with three constitutional scholars called by Democrats testifying they believed the president committed impeachable offenses.
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On a screen displayed in the hearing room, Democrats listed three possible impeachable offenses: Abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice.
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"Our first task is to explore the framework put in place to respond to serious allegations of impeachable misconduct like those against President Trump," Nadler said.
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But if the Republican-led Senate declines to convict Trump of impeachable crimes, the President's past behavior suggests he will perceive a validation of his behavior.
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Seventy-seven percent of Democratic voters said Trump was guilty of an impeachable offense, compared with just 2202 percent of GOP voters who said the same.
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"We can debate judgment, or whether or not other presidents have done it or not … but it's really a question of whether it's impeachable," said Sen.
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They say that he didn't seek a corrupt political bargain with Ukraine, but that if he did, he failed, and the mere attempt is not impeachable.
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The Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday, when a trio of legal scholars argued that Trump's unprecedented conduct was evidence of impeachable offenses.
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The report defines this offense as such: The essence of impeachable bribery is a government official's exploitation of his or her public duties for personal gain.
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She further argued that Trump&aposs efforts to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 US election by investigating his political opponent constitute an impeachable offense.
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Their crimes are not just specific impeachable acts but also the systematic undermining of the rule of law, democratic governance, human rights and the national interest.
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It is possible, they argue, to be a purveyor of terrible policy ideas while at the same time balking at illegal, or at least impeachable, acts.
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That could happen for crimes that do not rise to an impeachable offense, he wrote, citing the example of a president who punches an irritating heckler.
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If Mr. Flynn testifies to this — ABC's Brian Ross is reporting that he will — it presents another impeachable offense along with the possible obstruction of justice.
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Nadler said that while Trump's alleged direction of the hush payments might be an impeachable offense, that wouldn't necessarily guarantee lawmakers would proceed with impeachment proceedings.
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So this week, the House Intelligence Committee, led by chairman Adam Schiff, is conducting hearings to investigate whether Trump's dealings with Ukraine constitute an impeachable offense.
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Opposing Trump's impeachment Bennet said he believes Trump "probably" committed impeachable offenses -- but he remained firm in his stance that Congress should not pursue the President's impeachment.
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Amash was the only congressional Republican to publicly argue that the President has engaged in impeachable conduct before announcing he was leaving the Republican Party on Thursday.
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Congress' job, after all, would be determining whether Trump committed an impeachable offense, which has a much fuzzier definition than the criminal statute of obstruction of justice.
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He was the first Republican to say in 2017 that it could be an impeachable offense if Trump obstructed justice in firing former FBI Director James Comey.
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Although it also is clear that impeachable misconduct does not need to be predicated on a criminal violation, the charges against this president are redolent of crimes.
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A handful of Republican senators have in recent days described Trump's conduct as inappropriate but argued it did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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She has argued the charges of manipulating the budget did not constitute an impeachable crime, giving the process no legal base and therefore making it a coup.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that the Trump administration's provocation and refusal to follow the order of subpoenas could be an impeachable offense, Bloomberg reports.
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Justin Amash, R-Michigan, read the redacted Mueller Report and concluded from the evidence that President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses, and broke ranks with his party.
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But it's a view that now has partisan overtones, with Democrats arguing that withholding aid from such a critical ally for political purposes is an impeachable offense.
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The impeachment committee will decide on Monday whether Rousseff committed an impeachable crime, and its recommendation is expected to sway lower house lawmakers who are still undecided.
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Nadler then asked that if such a case was brought before the IRS and it failed to investigate, would it be an "impeachable" offense for the commissioner.
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"In full view of the world and the American people, Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts," Biden said.
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Experts disagree about whether this or that charge is impeachable, but they do agree on one thing: the sword of impeachment must be wielded with great caution.
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Highly ideological parties and candidates can win elections in the right circumstances, and a race against an unpopular, unfit and impeachable incumbent might be one of them.
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Michigan Representative Justin Amash, a founding member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, saw himself ousted from the group for asserting that Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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"I probably would," he said when asked if he agreed with incoming Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, that it come be an impeachable offense.
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On Thursday night, the country began to buzz over a Buzzfeed report that Trump had told his lawyer to lie to Congress -- an impeachable offense, if true.
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Deb Haaland said in a statement that "there is growing evidence of impeachable offenses" by the President, adding that "we must move forward with an impeachment inquiry."
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE notes, if the report contains evidence about impeachable conduct or offenses, they must be shared with Congress.
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The House, which has the sole constitutional authority for impeachment, would consider more broadly any abuses of presidential power that constitute impeachable offense, explicitly criminal or not.
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This time, however, it won't hide what two weeks of hearings and testimony have clearly established: that the president abused his power and committed an impeachable offense.
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Pelosi has tasked Democratic leaders in the House with probing whether Trump's request that Ukraine investigate a political rival rises to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Mueller will probably find numerous impeachable offenses, but the House would be foolish to waste its time with impeachment when the Senate will surely reject the charges.
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In 1998, another investigator submitted a report on a president's potentially impeachable offenses to Congress: a narrative from the independent counsel Kenneth Starr of Bill Clinton's misconduct.
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That Trump's hush money to two women has nothing to do with Russia makes the wrongdoing no less contemptible, illegal — and, because it's about the president, impeachable.
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"On Election Day, as a citizen, I will allow that to enter into my decision who to vote for, but it's not an impeachable offense," he said.
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Democrats also pushed back in earnest against claims from Trump's lawyers that an impeachable offense must be a statutory crime, such as bribery or obstruction of justice.
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The tweet came around same time Trump's defense team made its case rebutting allegations that the president committed impeachable offenses during the Senate impeachment trial Saturday morning.
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But that changed on Wednesday when he forcefully declared that the president had "committed impeachable acts" and that Congress should move forward with the process, Julia reports.
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Most agree that impeachable offenses are not limited to conduct that is otherwise criminally prosecutable, though the existence of criminal conduct certainly strengthens the case for impeachment.
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An impeachable offense is an abuse of the power of the office that violates the public trust, runs counter to the national interest, and undermines the Republic.
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In his authoritative 19th-century legal treatise, Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court explained that impeachable acts are by their nature impossible to define in advance.
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He also argued on ABC's "This Week" that the House's charges against Trump aren't the kind of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" imagined by the nation's founders.
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There are three big impeachable offenses: treason and bribery are pretty clear cut, but "high crimes and misdemeanors" leaves room for argument, which leaves room for politics.
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Pelosi has tasked Democratic leaders in the House with probing whether Trump's request that Ukraine investigate a political rival rises to the level of an impeachable offense.
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There may be an impeachable case to be made with Bolton, who teased about an undisclosed back story, but it will not be sustainable on this record.
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He argues that the actual elements of the crime are less important because "impeachable offenses are not governed by the strict terms" of the federal criminal code.
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They say the president's actions were "inappropriate" and "wrong," but trying to shake down a foreign country to go after your political opponent isn't an impeachable offense.
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It undercuts the contention by House Democrats that President Trump committed an impeachable offense by insisting on a court order before sending possibly privileged material to Congress.
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Renacci said that the issue of whether Koskinen committed an impeachable or censurable offense should be dealt with separately, and not as part of the appropriations bill.
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Between the lines: Much of the information in the report isn't new, but it's being pulled together to lay out Democrats' case that Trump committed impeachable offenses.
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And the committee also listed three "impeachable offenses" on a slide inside the hearing room: abuse of power and bribery, obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice.
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" In a Washington Post op-ed published Monday night, seven freshman Democrats wrote that "if these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense.
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The Constitution is clear: A president who uses presidential powers for purely personal and political reasons, as Mr. Trump appears to have done, commits an impeachable offense.
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Some House Democrats want the probe to encompass a broader range of issues, which they also believe to be impeachable offenses supported by evidence (The Washington Post).
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When respondents were asked whether "just asking the president of Ukraine for help in investigating" Biden and his son is impeachable conduct, 45 percent said it was.
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We were reluctant to wield a tool that the framers intended to be the last line of defense against tyranny without a clear case of impeachable offenses.
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Republicans on Wednesday came to Barr's defense, arguing that Mueller was not under the same legal requirements as past independent investigators to tell Congress about impeachable offenses.
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Instead, they're treating that refusal to cooperate as evidence that the White House is obstructing a congressional investigation — an impeachable offense, in the eyes of many Democrats.
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Throughout his arguments on Monday, Dershowitz suggested that the charges Trump faces cannot be classified as "crimes," and therefore do not meet the criteria of impeachable offenses.
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"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense," he said in his remarks.
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But they say that nothing in there is impeachable -- nor does it warrant the hearing from new witnesses since it confirms what is already known, they say.
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If Senate Republicans refuse to convict Trump by preventing a fair trial or denying that his actions are impeachable, their verdict will not acquit him of anything.
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Any violation of the foreign contribution ban can lead to a civil enforcement action by the FEC or be considered an impeachable offense by Congress, Ryan said.
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Meanwhile, they admitted they had not talked to the president about these matters, and they were unable to identify any crime or impeachable offense the President committed.
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Steny Hoyer, the House Majority Leader, said Democrats came slowly to the decision to impeach Trump and ignored other impeachable conduct during and after the Russia investigation.
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But they did embrace the President's stunning new argument that envisages an executive immune from limits on his authority — that abusing power is not an impeachable offense.
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It remains troubling, if not impeachable, that the help was nonetheless delivered in the form of leaks and a social media misinformation campaign aimed at Trump's opponent.
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Justin Amash was the only House Republican to publicly argue that Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct before announcing this summer he was leaving the Republican Party.
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President Trump on Sunday tweeted that his Republican allies should not be "led into the fools trap" of calling his dealings with Ukraine inappropriate, but not impeachable.
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Schumer suggested Monday that testimony from witnesses like Mulvaney and Bolton could provide additional clarity for Senate Republicans who currently find Trump's actions inappropriate but not impeachable.
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And Democratic lawmakers will also work to build a case that the presidential behavior cataloged in that evidence matches the definitions of impeachable conduct established last week.
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Ahead of Monday's proceedings, House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a report summarizing their findings from last week's hearing in a report that outlines what constitutes impeachable offenses.
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The opening statements at Wednesday's House Judiciary impeachment hearing were full of detailed historical and constitutional analysis on whether President Donald Trump's Ukraine scandal contains impeachable behavior.
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Administration officials have accused Democrats of deliberately attempting to distract Trump from his work overseas by hosting a hearing Wednesday with constitutional law experts on impeachable offenses.
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold its first hearing in the impeachment inquiry with constitutional law experts who will outline the basis for impeachable offenses.
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Collins said constitutional scholars had found Trump did not commit impeachable offenses after former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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He said not complying with subpoenas could be an impeachable offense 20 years ago; these days, it's difficult to tell what could change his mind about Trump.
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Denouncing "this delivery of government jobs" in return for votes, Barros said that what should matter is whether or not lawmakers think Rousseff committed an impeachable offense.
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That does not mean it is not impeachable, but the House will have to build its case to that level, not lower historical impeachments to "this" level.
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Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) strongly criticized panel Democrats and witnesses for bringing up the Founding Fathers in debating whether Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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"It is a straightforward summary that provides an account of the unfair procedures by Democrat leadership, and the failure to substantiate any impeachable offense," Mr. Meuser wrote.
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In her interview with CNN, Ms. Fiorina said both that she believed Mr. Trump's "conduct is impeachable" and that she thought he would in fact be impeached.
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Democrats have debated for months whether to start proceedings to remove Trump from office, but no Republican in Congress, other than Amash, has called Trump's conduct impeachable.
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"Obstruction is plainly an impeachable offense: It's the offense for which Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment," Litman wrote in a Friday New York Times op-ed.
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They said that it was a really compelling story that they feel that this was a really important next step and wouldn't say if they felt it was officially impeachable, but did say that they felt that this was an outline of the sort of conduct that the founders envisioned would be impeachable and that they are keeping an open mind and excited to hear what comes next.
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Mueller's report found multiple potential instances of obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense put forward by the House Judiciary committee during the Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton presidencies.
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