Clinton was impeached for covering up sex with an intern.
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"He is going to be impeached for jaywalking," Caputo said.
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He took over when she was impeached for manipulating government accounts.
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He was impeached for lying about what happened with a woman.
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Bill Clinton did too, although he was impeached for lying about it.
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What about Trump being impeached for something other than the Russian investigation?
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"I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!" he wrote.
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Reminder: Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 before he could be impeached for Watergate.
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Rousseff is being impeached for manipulating public accounts, a charge that she denies.
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I don&apost know if you can get impeached for being a jerk.
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No president is going to be impeached for relatively minor campaign finance violation.
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Park was impeached for corruption in December and removed from office in March.
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" He added: "Is it politically desirable for her to be impeached for that?
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It is Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi who should be impeached for fraud!
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He was impeached for strong-arming Ukraine into tampering with the 2020 election.
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The president isn't being impeached for any actions related to the 2016 election.
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He said Obama could certainly be impeached for his executive action on immigration.
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"She's married to a man who got impeached for lying," Trump said of Clinton.
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Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, but the Senate acquitted him.
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President Bill Clinton was impeached, for example, without any criminal charges filed against him.
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He was impeached for corruption in 1992, less than three years into his term.
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Nor should President Trump be impeached for political sins that do not constitute crimes.
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In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice.
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However, I am surprised this is the reason why Trump is being impeached for.
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On the face of it, at least two presidents have been impeached for less.
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In fact, federal officials have been impeached for conduct predating their time in office.
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Lula's hand-picked successor, former President Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for fudging public accounts.
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Moriarty, on the other hand, was impeached for something she did while in office.
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He was also impeached for his role in assuring higher pay for senior status judges.
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Temer took over from Rousseff after she was impeached for allegedly meddling with fiscal accounts.
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Under this, the president can be impeached "for high treason or attacks against the constitution".
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Donald Trump seems hell-bent on becoming the first president to be impeached for tweeting.
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The impeachment centered on the question of whether a president could be impeached for perjury.
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Further, there's a reason Trump isn't impeached for cancelling Palestinian aid or Central American aid.
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Spotlight: Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, might be impeached for allegedly hiding budget deficits.
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Ms. Park agreed to the Thaad deployment before she was impeached for corruption in December.
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Howell also asked Letter whether a president could be impeached for lying to the public.
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In America, there is no way a president can be impeached for being embarrassing and stupid.
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Keith Ellison and other critics have said that Trump should be impeached for violating the clause.
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So President Lincoln is praised for his statesmanship, rather than lambasted (let alone impeached) for corruption.
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He ended up recommending the President be impeached for lying and obstruction of justice in 1998.
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"She's married to a man who was impeached for lying," Mr. Trump said of Mrs. Clinton.
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By contrast, it is very clear that a President can be impeached for obstruction of justice.
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"She's married to a man who got impeached for lying," Trump told supporters in Spokane, Wash.
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President Donald Trump was impeached for trying to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election.
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Others argued that he should be impeached for ordering the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969.
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One is the president can be impeached for lying to the American public, he took that back.
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The survey found that 30% of respondents said the president should be impeached for corruption, he said.
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The Constitution says officials can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," but doesn't define that term.
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Rousseff was impeached for breaking budget laws, ending 14 years of leftist rule by the Workers Party.
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Clinton was impeached for lying to a federal grand jury and prompting witnesses to do the same.
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Rather, she is being impeached for an accounting practice that other presidents, and many governors, have used.
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While it appears that some House members think Koskinen could be impeached for gross negligence, Gerhardt disagreed.
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Clinton was later impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with the former White House intern.
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"You get impeached for having created the greatest economy in the history of our country," he said.
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Most of the world (and possibly most of Brazil) may believe that she was impeached for corruption.
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Unlike Nixon, Mr. Trump has now actually been impeached, for abuse of power and obstructing congressional investigation.
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Clinton was impeached for perjury and for obstruction of justice for lying about his relationship with Lewinsky.
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Johnson was impeached for firing a Cabinet officer in violation of a law later found to be unconstitutional.
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Mr Temer took office in 2016, after his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for breaking Brazil's budgetary laws.
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Trump under oath in a depo is highly problematic ... remember, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.
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In other words, Trump acknowledged doing the very thing he has repeatedly denied and could be impeached for.
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In other words, he acknowledged doing the very thing he could be impeached for and has repeatedly denied.
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The US Constitution states that a sitting president can be impeached for treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The conventional wisdom, among academics and pundits, is that a president can be impeached for non-criminal behavior.
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He once argued that a president could be impeached for lying to his staff or misleading the public.
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Brazil moved to the right last year when Lula's successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached for breaking budgetary rules.
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"), suggested former President Obama should be impeached for his comments about health care ("Why aren't we impeaching him?
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"This president is impeached for life regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell," Pelosi said.
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Bill Clinton, for instance, was impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Trump is also the first president impeached for abuse of power; a similar charge against Clinton was rejected.
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Much of the discussion during the hearing focused on whether Koskinen could be impeached for being grossly negligent.
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In his annual marathon press conference Thursday in Moscow, Putin argued Trump was impeached for "far-fetched" reasons.
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It appears that Trump is on the verge of getting impeached for a whole other set of misconduct.
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If a president could not be impeached for that, he would in fact not be responsible to anybody.
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In both hearings, I said a president could be impeached for noncriminal conduct, including abuse of public office.
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If Trump is deposed and lies under oath, he could be impeached for perjury just as Clinton was.
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye is on trial after being impeached for her involvement in a corruption scandal.
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Supreme Court justices, like federal judges in the lower courts, can be impeached for misconduct, but it's extremely rare.
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Remember: Bill Clinton was impeached for lying and obstructing justice, and also had to give up his law license.
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President Clinton never should have been impeached for his Oval Office misconduct, or his testimony about his sex life.
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Dean also said Trump could be impeached for incompetence even though that is not spelled out in the Constitution.
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The team is expected to raise a constitutional argument that a president cannot be impeached for abuse of power.
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Indeed, Waters appeared to listen to Clinton, who not only lied under oath, but was impeached for doing so.
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Featured Article: "Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress" by Nicholas Fandos and Michael D. Shear.
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"Everyone except President Trump and his lawyers agree that presidents can be impeached for abuse of power," Nadler emphasized.
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"Everyone except President Trump and his lawyers agree that presidents can be impeached for abuse of power," Nadler said.
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If only a president could be impeached for a lack of class, our national nightmare could soon be over.
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What happened in 1998 is that Clinton was impeached for lying about his sexual relationship with a White House intern.
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His presidency lasted just under 18 months: he was impeached for graft, and resigned after the army withdrew its support.
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Green's argument, as with his past impeachment efforts, is that Trump should be impeached for inflaming racial tensions in America.
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It has been 21 years since President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice in 1998.
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The US Constitution states that a sitting president can be impeached for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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But he can, of course, be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," and bribery and obstruction of justice both qualify.
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Most constitutional scholars agree that the framers did not want presidents impeached for maladministration -- meaning doing a really bad job.
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" As a member of Congress, James Madison argued that a president could be impeached for "wanton removal of meritorious officers.
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These people are Crazy!" to his all caps tweet Thursday, "I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!
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Democrats backed Obama but now claim Trump can be impeached for obstruction for going to court to challenge such demands.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice, but saw out the remainder of his second term.
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Judge Kavanaugh, above, said that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to his staff and misleading the public.
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As the recession deepened last year, Temer's predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for breaking budget rules amid record-low approval ratings.
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The Constitution states that a president can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," a term long seen as notoriously vague.
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She's leaving out the technicalities of how Clinton was impeached for lying about his affair, not for actually having an affair.
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In 22014 Itamar Franco replaced the first directly elected leader after the dictatorship, Fernando Collor, who was impeached for taking bribes.
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Lula's handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff, is being impeached for covering gaps in the government's budget in ways that were allegedly illegal.
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Readers learn that in England, officials could be impeached for all sorts of misconduct, even if they had not committed crimes.
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Trump deserves to be impeached for every offense he has committed against the office of the presidency and the American people.
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Trump was impeached for allegedly trying to leverage congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine into political favors for his reelection campaign.
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The President has just been impeached for withholding military aid until Ukraine announced an investigation into his most formidable political rival.
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He argued on Monday that a president cannot be impeached for the allegations made by the House, which he called vague.
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" The president, Blackman maintains, cannot be impeached for pursuing "legal policies that members of the opposition party deem insufficiently publicly spirited.
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The trial turned less on what Chase had done than on whether he could be impeached for having done those things.
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And they ignore the others unless it's forced on them — like Bill Clinton being impeached for lying about his sex life.
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As Vox's Sean Collins reported, Bill Clinton was impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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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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"It depends who the Democrats put up," she said, adding that Trump should be impeached for his alleged pressure on Ukraine.
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Trump, who has faced intense scrutiny over his relationship with Russia, was impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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Host George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert StephanopoulosGOP senator on Trump soliciting foreign interference: 'Those are just statements' Alan Dershowitz: Argument president cannot be impeached for abusing power a 'strong one' Pelosi: Trump is 'impeached for life' MORE pressed Shelby on whether it was appropriate for Trump to solicit foreign interference, regardless of whether he felt it was impeachable.
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I believe he should be impeached for the sake and safety our country and the people of the United States of America.
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Listen, if we lose the House, this president will be impeached for nothing, he&aposll be impeach because he won an election.
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Green, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, argues that Trump should be impeached for promoting bigotry through his actions and policies.
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All of Trump's most recent predecessors had their controversies -- in the most extreme case, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.
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In 1868, Andrew Johnson was impeached for breaching the Tenure of Office Act, but the Senate narrowly acquitted him by one vote.
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Well, the Constitution provides that the president can be impeached for treason, bribery, and what it calls other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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President Bill Clinton whipped up a firestorm with his pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and was impeached for lying under oath.
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What's more, the Supreme Court has ordered the House to investigate whether he should be impeached for aiding Rousseff's deficit-hiding scheme.
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All this suggests that although Trump was impeached for abuse of power, he probably will not be removed from office for it.
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In 1998, Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice related to trying to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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The impeachment clause of the Constitution certainly doesn't (you can be impeached for violating the public's sacred trust without committing a crime).
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Historically, judges have been impeached for a variety of reasons — from showing up to work drunk, to joining the Confederacy, to accepting bribes.
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In 1868 Andrew Johnson was impeached for (among other things) bringing the presidency into "contempt, ridicule and disgrace", which is not a crime.
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He also oversaw Petrobras during the height of the corruption scandal, and approved the fiscal accounting measures that Rousseff is being impeached for.
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"You have a president who was impeached for having an affair with an intern in the Oval Office and then disbarred," Rapert said.
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Go deeper: Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress House Democrats delay delivery of Trump articles of impeachment to Senate
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Does this reasoning imply that if the president does not violate a statutory crime, that he cannot be impeached for abusing his power?
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Impeached for what, having created the greatest Economy in the history of our Country, building our strongest ever Military, Cutting Taxes too much?
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Presidents can be impeached for actions that are not crimes, not least because the criminal code was not written with Presidents in mind.
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Go deeper: Inside Trump's split-screen impeachment Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Which Democrats voted against Trump's impeachment
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As I said 21 years ago, a president can still be impeached for abuse of power without a crime, and that includes Trump.
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After all, even though presidents can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," impeachment is ultimately a political process, not a legal one.
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But Clinton was impeached for perjury after he lied to the grand jury in the Jones case, and also for obstruction of justice.
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But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has repeatedly needled the president in recent weeks by arguing that he is "impeached for life."
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"You have a president who was impeached for having an affair with an intern in the Oval Office and then disbarred," said state Sen.
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Accordingly, the Republicans who support this bill of impeachment are implicitly siding with Democrats who argue that Trump can be impeached for noncriminal conduct.
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"Just because you can do something doesn't mean you won't get impeached for doing it," said Cameron Smith, a former aide to Mr. Sessions.
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Because Mr. Trump's fellow Republicans control both chambers of Congress, as things stand, he is exceedingly unlikely to be impeached for firing Mr. Comey.
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News organizations and social media propagated the perception that she was being impeached for corruption, which a large sector of the population happily believed.
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Richard Nixon could have been impeached for abuse of power and contempt of Congress if he hadn't resigned before the House voted on impeachment.
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The question of what exactly a president should be impeached for—"treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanours"—was deliberately left to Congress.
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"Asking the Attorney General to drop a case against a political ally is the kind of thing people get impeached for," Pfeiffer tweeted Saturday.
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Another justice on the court, Gilmar Mendes, said that his colleague Mr. Mello could be impeached for interfering with the leadership of the Senate.
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Trump was impeached for delaying aid to Ukraine and requesting Zelensky investigate the Bidens for corruption, an effort the House deemed an abuse of power.
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Especially if he's going to defy his own low approval ratings and the inflamed Democratic voters who'd like to see him impeached for obstructing justice.
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Green argued that Trump should be impeached for his rhetoric against certain racial and ethnic groups in the US, including Latinos, Muslims and African-Americans.
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As an aide to independent counsel Kenneth Starr in the 1990s, Kavanaugh argued that then-president Bill Clinton could be impeached for misleading the public.
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Former President Fernando Collor de Mello, who resigned in December 1992 while he was being impeached for corruption, has been in the Senate since 2007.
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What comes next It's not that a President, impeached for inviting foreign influence into the US election, has a pretty good chance of winning reelection.
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"So, this is the first time in history where a President has been impeached for a non-crime for events that never occurred," he said.
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" The Constitution says presidents can be impeached for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," but it does not define "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Go deeper: Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Which Democrats voted against Trump's impeachment Trump takes to Twitter on impeachment day
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For his part, Alexander said he hopes Trump will not repeat his "inappropriate actions" now that he understands that he could be impeached for it.
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Johnson should have been impeached for the way he got into Vietnam with my help—my silence, and the silence of all these other officials.
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Warren was the first major candidate to call for Trump to be impeached for taking actions to impede the federal investigation of Russian election interference.
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A president could only be impeached for actual crimes in the criminal code, Dershowitz argued — contradicting his stance during former president Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
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While responding to questions from senators Wednesday, Dershowitz argued that presidents cannot be impeached for demanding a quid pro quo to help get themselves reelected.
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This is why President Trump was impeached for obstruction of Congress, and why a Senate trial with no witnesses or documents is a cover-up.
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First, Trump will be, and should be, impeached for violations of federal campaign finance law related to hush money payments to an adult film star.
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He was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act because of what that violation represented, and because of the likely consequences of that violation.
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Indeed, how can the President be impeached for putting pressure on a foreign leader, when the Ukraine President himself denied that this was what happened?
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He was being impeached for using government resources to pursue his affair with a young staffer and using state law enforcement to keep it secret.
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Temer, who replaced leftist Dilma Rousseff earlier this year after she was impeached for allegedly doctoring the public accounts, has proposed a cap on public expenditure.
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I thought the most surprising concept you brought up in the book was that he might be impeached for failure to take action on climate change.
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I testified during those hearings, as one of the constitutional experts, that President Clinton could be impeached for lying under oath, regardless of the subject matter.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday said sitting officials can be impeached for prior criminal conduct, citing a recent legal precedent. Rep.
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At the time, he argued that Trump should be impeached for obstructing justice by firing Comey — a charge that doesn't appear in his articles of impeachment.
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In the shadow of Wednesday's explosive impeachment hearings, there was a consensus among candidates that President Trump should be impeached for his alleged abuse of power.
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In my testimony Wednesday, I stated repeatedly, as I did 21 years ago, that a president can be impeached for noncriminal acts, including abuse of power.
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Under the Constitution, a president can be impeached for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" — terminology that has been the subject of some debate.
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The Constitution says the president can be impeached for treason, bribery, or "other high Crimes or Misdemeanors," but leaves the definition of that final category vague.
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That represents the first improvement in Temer's unfavorable rating since he took over last year from his predecessor Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached for breaking budget rules.
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Trump claims that Obama could've been impeached "for the guns for whatever, where guns went all over the place and people got killed with the guns." pic.twitter.
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South Korea's Moon has won sympathy by taking a common man approach in sharp contrast to the aloof stylings of his predecessor, who was impeached for corruption.
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We have had some people, mostly judges, who've been impeached for behavior which wasn't technically a crime, and not all crimes would be the basis for impeachment.
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The Constitution itself offers little guidance: Presidents can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," which can mean whatever the House and Senate want it to mean.
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Oh, and Trump's admission, to NBC, that his initial rationale for firing Comey was BS has some people thinking he could be impeached for obstruction of justice.
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Trump's allegation is obviously false and deeply ironic, given that the president himself got impeached for improperly pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden over this issue.
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On Wednesday he took his arguments a step further, telling senators that presidents could not be impeached for legal actions they believed were in the public interest.
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Voters know that Pelosi has propped open a door that may never close; every future president will now face the threat of being impeached for minor offenses.
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Graham's statement reflects the views of other Republicans that Trump can't be impeached for obstruction of justice if the special counsel failed to find an underlying crime.
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After hobnobbing with the queen, the president now faces the daunting likelihood that by Christmas he will become the third president impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about an affair with an intern -- something that there is no evidence that the founders ever had in mind.
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House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOn The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans House delivers impeachment articles to Senate Senate begins preparations for Trump trial MORE's (D-Calif.) statement that President Trump is "impeached for life" sounds exactly like he was impeached for politics.
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Does Brennan believe Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt should have been impeached for creating a World War II alliance with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to fight the Nazis?
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Carmela, Arizona: Can Barr be indicted or impeached for lying to Congress when he said he did not know if Mueller agreed with his summary of the report?
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READ: Here's proof of how Trump has mixed up Washington: Some Democrats think he might want to be impeached For their part, progressives acknowledge Pelosi's comments are strategic.
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About 10 months in as President, after the previous president Dilma Rousseff was impeached for corruption, there are allegations that Temer too was involved in a bribery scandal.
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Susan Collins: Israel should allow Omar, Tlaib to visit MORE be impeached for what he is accused of doing as a teenager and his subsequent testimony about it.
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She can be impeached for any of her allegedly malignant misdeeds as secretary of state -- whatever those misdeeds might be, in the eyes of her House Republican critics.
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One key piece of Judge Kavanaugh's writings has been the subject of much discussion this week: he once argued President Clinton could be impeached for misleading the public.
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" Mr. Tribe likewise debunked Mr. Dershowitz's argument that the president could not be impeached for "abuse of power," noting, "No serious constitutional scholar has ever agreed with it.
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In 2008, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he thought George W. Bush should have been impeached for lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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"If presidents can be impeached for partisan policy differences based on presumptions and feelings, not actual evidence, Democrats have profoundly undermined the precedents of this institution," said Rep.
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Trump is so scared of facing Biden in a general election that the president got himself impeached for trying to get a foreign leader to damage Biden's campaign.
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The question of whether a sitting governor can be impeached for transgressions committed before holding office is a legally ambiguous one — and Greitens could be the test case.
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Temer knows it well: this was his residence when he served as vice president until last year when then president Dilma Rousseff was impeached for breaking budget accounting laws.
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In a cover story for New York magazine earlier this year, Jill Abramson suggested that perhaps Thomas should be impeached for lying under oath about his conduct toward Hill.
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That popularity has been hurt by corruption scandals involving his party, which lost power in 2016 when his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for breaking budget rules.
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You recently called for Washington leaders to begin impeachment proceedings on President Trump, in part saying that what he's done has far surpassed what Bill Clinton was impeached for.
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Schiff again took aim at Alan Dershowitz's assertion last week that a president could not be impeached for any abuse of power, no matter how egregious or self-serving.
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Jefferson had fierce political adversaries, but there is no evidence that he was criticized (much less sued or impeached) for continuing the tradition that had been established by Washington.
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The revelation comes amid the president&aposs impeachment trial in the Senate after he was impeached for abusing his political power to get an investigation into a political opponent.
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" Saletan argued that Trump should be impeached for an "overwhelming pattern of treachery," citing seven countries in which Trump "pursued personal advantage at the expense of the United States.
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Then came Barack Obama -- and Republicans, similarly, demanding that he be impeached for, among other things, his administration's response to the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Mr. Trump's actions regarding Ukraine were "inappropriate" and "not how the executive should handle such things," said Representative Will Hurd of Texas, but he shouldn't be impeached for them.
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She is possibly the first president of any democratic nation to be formally impeached for being embarrassing, stupid and indiscreet, and not for hard evidence of graft, corruption or perjury.
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The so-called House Freedom Caucus this week leaked a draft resolution that said Rosenstein should be impeached for not promptly responding to their requests for documents on FBI investigations.
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No charges were ever brought against the Clinton's in the case, but Democrat Bill Clinton was eventually impeached for lying about a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Temer, a former vice president whose government's approval rating is in the single digits, took office a year ago after former President Dilma Rousseff was impeached for breaking budgetary laws.
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Moreover, a president being impeached for an attempt to trade the assurance of American military aid for personal political gain should not be crafting American foreign policy in any capacity.
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Ernst said Biden could be impeached for debunked claims that Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was fired for investigating Burisma, a company in which Biden's son held a board seat.
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In front of Romney, now a Republican senator from Utah, Schiff argued that President Barack Obama would surely have been impeached for asking for a probe into his electoral rival.
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Specifically attorney Alan Dershowitz, who appeared to be arguing that Trump couldn't be impeached for trying to get himself re-elected, if he believed it was in the public interest.
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Dershowitz, whose performance Monday was lauded by Senate Republicans, argued the President couldn't be impeached for a quid pro quo if he believed his reelection was in the national interest.
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For my testimony before Congress during the impeachment hearings of both President Clinton and Trump, I took the opposing view that a president can be impeached for a noncriminal act.
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Eric Herschmann, a private lawyer, argued that it was in fact President Barack Obama who should have been impeached for the same abuse of power charges leveled against Mr. Trump.
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The vote came barely a month after Dilma Rousseff, the president, was impeached for fiscal misdemeanours, ending more than 214 years of rule by the left-of-centre Workers' Party (PT).
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Missouri's constitution says elected officials can be impeached for "crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness, wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or any offence involving moral turpitude or oppression in office".
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The blow comes days after Park was impeached for sharing official state documents with Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of the President who has been described as a Rasputin-like figure.
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His popularity has been hurt by corruption indictments and scandals involving his party, which was ousted from power in 2016 when his hand-picked successor was impeached for breaking budget rules.
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You can't be impeached for ignorance, but Republican leaders, if they really thought Trump was lacking in the basic knowledge necessary for the job, could approach him to encourage a resignation.
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The first public hearings were held in the inquiry that will determine whether Donald Trump should be impeached for asking the Ukrainian government to dig up political dirt on Joe Biden.
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His successor as president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for breaking budget rules; her successor, Michel Temer, the current president, has been charged with corruption and his popularity rating is near zero.
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Specifically, he was arguing against the idea that presidents can be impeached for otherwise lawful actions if they are motivated by gaining personal political benefits rather than serving the public interest.
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The White House on Sunday sent a letter declining to participate in hearings weighing whether the Republican Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate a potential political rival.
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Republican Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached for the Watergate scandal, and Democrats Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate.
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President Bill Clinton survived being impeached for lying under oath about sexual liaisons with Monica S. Lewinsky only after a Senate trial in which lawmakers opted against removing him from office.
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The lower house of Congress will vote on Sunday on whether President Dilma Rousseff should be impeached for breaking budget laws, a vote that the leftist leader is widely expected to lose.
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It is the sort of superficially coherent, yet flawed defence of Mr Trump that Republican congressmen would mobilise almost whatever he were impeached for (so long as their voters still loved him).
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Whether a president can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" committed prior to an election is an interesting legal question that undoubtedly will be the subject of future debate and discussion.
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If the Senate votes by a simple majority to accept the case next month, as is expected, Rousseff would become the first Brazilian leader to be impeached for more than 20 years.
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The bottom line is that the issue may be more complex and more nuanced than those who argue that a president can be impeached for non-criminal conduct would have us believe.
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The Constitution specifies that a president can be impeached for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," though in practice there are widely divergent views on what represents an impeachable offense.
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Mr. Temer, a leader of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, became president in August 2016 after his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers' Party, was impeached for violating budget rules.
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As a matter of constitutional law — the type in which a president can be impeached for "high crimes" and removed from office by Congress — no written definition or standard exists for obstruction.
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If Starr's chosen argument on Monday proved anything, it wasn't that Trump shouldn't be allowed to impeached for the good of the country, it was that truth really is stranger than fiction.
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That survey found the public split at 220006-2202 on whether Trump should be impeached for "pressuring" the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden's dealings in the country, including 2628 percent of independents.
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But even Republicans who don't think Trump should be impeached for using it as leverage for political favors generally believe that deterring Russian aggression and protecting democracy in Eastern Europe is important.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's 5-star leader Luigi Di Maio on Sunday said President Sergio Mattarella should be impeached for betraying the state because of his rejection of a eurosceptic as economy minister.
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They note that Rousseff - who would be the first Brazilian president impeached for more than three decades - is accused of a budgetary sleight of hand commonly employed by many elected officials in Brazil.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Leftist opponents of Brazil's President Michel Temer sought on Monday to have him investigated and impeached for his alleged role in pressuring a former culture minister to approve a property development.
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And now that it has refused to do so, Cris Dush, a Republican legislator, is calling for the five judges who voted down the Pennsylvania gerrymander to be impeached for "misbehaviour in office".
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They note that Rousseff — who would be the first Brazilian president impeached for more than three decades — is accused of a budgetary sleight of hand commonly employed by many elected officials in Brazil.
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His supporters have whirled through a cavalcade of defenses over the past two months to explain why the president shouldn't be impeached for inviting a foreign government to sabotage a domestic political rival.
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The dispute pitted one part of Mr. Trump's administration against another in a struggle over foreign policy that now has the president on the precipice of being impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The accusations Mr. Temer faces are potentially more scandalous than those that led to the downfall of Ms. Rousseff, who was impeached for tapping into central reserve funds to paper over budget shortfalls.
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No, this outburst of God-talk is surely a response to the way the walls are closing in on Trump, the high likelihood that he will be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Thanks to the courage of a whistle-blower, the honest testimony of dedicated public servants and the vote of the House of Representatives, Mr. Trump stands impeached for this perversion of American democracy.
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Paul Hamilos: Resolved that Donald J. Trump, president of the United States is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate.
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"We have confidence in our case that it's impeachable, and this president is impeached for life, regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell," the speaker said, referring to Mr. McConnell.
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But the three other sitting justices were subjects of articles as well, and the court as a whole was impeached for not creating policies to rein in the wasteful spending of each other.
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The leftist leader's main coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, is expected to break with Rousseff's government later on Tuesday, raising the odds that she will be impeached for allegedly breaking budgetary rules.
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ROME, May 27 (Reuters) - Italy's 5-star leader Luigi Di Maio on Sunday said President Sergio Mattarella should be impeached for betraying the state because of his rejection of a eurosceptic as economy minister.
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" Trump was hopefully making an aspirational rather than a literal point because a president can be entirely successful in office yet be rightfully impeached for committing "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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As a young man, Kavanaugh in the 1990s worked on Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation into Bill Clinton, during which he laid the groundwork on how a president could be impeached for obstructing justice.
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The constitutional question of whether a President could be impeached for offenses committed before he took office is unsettled, but, as Clinton's case showed, civil proceedings contain risks whenever a President testifies under oath.
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This is what Nixon would have been impeached for had he not resigned — directing independent federal offices to take actions regardless of due process, law and the constitutional right of a presumption of innocence.
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In his view, presidents can't be impeached for pursuing their personal interests through American foreign policy so long as they hold the subjective belief that those personal interests are, in fact, the national interest.
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But Trump hasn't been impeached for obstruction of justice -- such as on the findings from Mueller that he attempted to obstruct the Russia investigation that came after McGahn gave key statements to criminal prosecutors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Friday recommended that President Donald Trump be impeached for abuse of power, clearing the way for a vote in the full House of Representatives next week.
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Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a sexual relationship he had with a White House intern, emerged in a stronger political position after he was acquitted in a Senate trial in early 1999.
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The report argued that the president could be impeached for lying to his staff and misleading the public — a theory that may prove damaging to Mr. Trump if applied to the current Russia investigation.
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He "had been through a lot of highs and lows" with Clinton on the substance of what he was impeached for: having an affair with an intern, and then lying about it under oath.
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Temer, who took over the presidency in May after his predecessor was impeached for alleged fiscal mismanagement, has unveiled a slew of measures to reduce credit costs as a way to rescue his dwindling popularity.
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The result was seen as a referendum on Republican overreach after Clinton was impeached for committing perjury and obstruction of justice following a scandal arising out of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell said Friday night that "Donald Trump will be, must be impeached" for "two alleged campaign finance violation crimes," detailed in filings from federal prosecutors and the special counsel's office that day.
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During that time, Kavanaugh argued that a president could be impeached for lying to his staff or misleading the public, but he later reportedly changed this stance after observing the discord caused by Clinton's impeachment.
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The American framers wrote 'high crimes and misdemeanors' into the U.S. Constitution, he noted, to include noncriminal abuses of power, and since then, federal judges and a U.S. senator have been impeached for noncriminal conduct.
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Trump is being impeached for withholding aid to Ukraine to pressure its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to announce an investigation into Joe Biden — the former vice president and Trump's potential election rival — and Biden's son, Hunter.
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Also Brett Kavanaugh, a guy who worked for Ken Starr, who wrote the section of report saying the president can be impeached for lying, has since written that president shouldn&apost be distracted in an investigation.
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O'Donnell tweeted Wednesday that Graham must answer as to whether he still believes a president can be impeached for no crime at all, and can instead be removed merely for the act of tainting the office.
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Go deeper: Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress The road to impeachment Trump accuses Democrats of subverting democracy in blistering letter to Pelosi The highlights from all of the public impeachment hearings
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Though the president will almost certainly be impeached for extorting Ukraine to aid his re-election, he is equally certain to be acquitted in the Senate, a tacit confirmation that he is, indeed, above the law.
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A U.S. whistleblower lodged a complaint about the contents of Trump's conversation with Zelenskiy, leading to calls from some Democrats that Trump be impeached for trying to enlist a foreign power to smear a domestic opponent.
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In the case of the governor, there are two possible paths for removal: He could be impeached for "malfeasance in office, corruption, neglect of duty, or other high crime or misdemeanor," according to the Virginia Constitution.
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Daschle said he "had been through a lot of highs and lows," with Clinton on the substance of what he was impeached for: having an affair with an intern and then lying about it under oath.
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The day after he was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, he dismissed the judgment of the House of Representatives and punched back by celebrating with a Democratic congressman who switched parties to stand with him.
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The report about Temer comes less than a year after his predecessor President Dilma Rousseff was impeached for corruption, and threatens the new president's ability to implement his plans to turn around a country from a recession.
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Next week three diplomats will be the first to testify in open hearings led by Democrats in the House of Representatives considering whether Trump should be impeached for abusing power by pressing Ukraine to investigate a rival.
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Alan Dershowitz, one of the president&aposs defense attorneys, argued the president can&apost be impeached for a quid pro quo designed to boost his reelection chance if he believes the reelection is in the public interest.
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"The only thing really new about the president's defense is that they're now arguing, I think, because they can't contest the facts, that the president cannot be impeached for abusing the power of his office," he said.
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Trump was impeached for his dealings with Ukraine and not his attempts to obstruct the Mueller investigation or other Russia-related findings, the Justice Department argued in another filing to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals Monday.
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"The only thing really new about the president's defense is that they're now arguing, I think, because they can't contest the facts, that the president cannot be impeached for abusing the power of his office," Schiff added.
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"The only thing really new about the president's defense is that they're now arguing, I think, because they can't contest the facts, that the president cannot be impeached for abusing the power of his office," he added.
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"I can't emphasize enough, it's not just Ukraine," House General Counsel Doug Letter told Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court in Washington, DC. Letter said Trump could be impeached for lying to the American public.
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And that if Democrats spend the next 18 months litigating whether Trump should be impeached for his decidedly unpresidential conduct during the course of the Mueller investigation, they are allowing the race to be about personalities, not policies.
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Monday's impeachment hearings got off to a sluggish start, with Sharman explaining to lawmakers the history of impeachments and answering procedural questions that included whether Bentley could be impeached for his failure to cooperate with the investigation alone.
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Giuliani parted ways with his previous attorney, Jon Sale, two weeks ago after refusing to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats investigating whether Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.
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Instead she met with lawmakers behind closed doors in a bid to obtain their vote or abstention on Sunday when the lower house of Congress votes on whether she should be impeached for breaking the country's budget laws.
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And Bill Clinton was successfully impeached for obstruction (along with a second count for perjury), even though an independent criminal investigation later declined to bring any charges against him for the underlying scandals around Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky.
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But someone must have explained to Biden that the man he seeks to replace was just impeached for defying the House, even without a subpoena, because he clarified his earlier remarks by stating the opposite in a later interview.
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During an interview with CNN last Sunday, however, he contradicted himself by saying, "without a crime there can be no impeachment" — arguing that abuse of power isn't an impeachable offense ... despite the president having already been impeached for it.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors of perjury and obstruction of justice — he lied about his affair with Lewinsky and tried to cover it up; he committed political wrong trying to hide a moral failing.
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" The Democrats' investigation earned a prominent endorsement as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a leading presidential candidate, said in a speech on Wednesday in New Hampshire that Mr. Trump should be impeached for "shooting holes in the Constitution.
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Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's legal team, sought to make the case to senators that an impeachable offense must be "criminal-like," adding that even if the claims in Bolton's book are true, Trump should not be impeached for it.
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The House managers used nearly all of the 85033 hours allotted to them over the course of three days in making the case Trump should be removed from office after he was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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The essence of the argument, which appears in a 110-page brief submitted on Monday by the president's ragtag legal team in advance of his Senate trial, is that Mr. Trump can't be impeached for behaviors that are not actual crimes.
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If the Republicans can confuse enough people by saying that the president is being impeached for "a phone call," then the argument for removing him will be like a house on stilts, with the stilts being removed one by one.
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A congressional committee voted on Monday by a larger-than-expected margin to recommend that Rousseff be impeached for breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014, a charge Rousseff says was trumped up to remove her from office.
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Yovanovitch is now embroiled in the Democratic-led House of Representatives' inquiry into whether Trump should be impeached for pressing his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to investigate unsubstantiated corruption charges against Democratic political rival Joe Biden and Biden's son, Hunter.
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Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus and high-profile defense attorney, argued that Trump cannot be impeached for pressuring Ukraine for investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden because doing so would be aimed at helping his reelection chances.
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When it came to discussing why former President Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury but Trump isn't being held to that standard, Hostin brought out the receipts — she clamored him for everything from paying off Stormy Daniels to the Ukraine scandal.
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Democrats charge that Trump must be impeached for abusing his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals while withholding US security aid and a White House meeting, and then covering up his conduct by stonewalling the congressional investigation.
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"Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University and an expert on authoritarianism, told Insider that if Trump were reelected in 2020 after "having been impeached for election interference, that does say something about the weakening of democratic institutions.
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Because IF you believe a President needs to be impeached for the good of the country, logic will seem to dictate that if/when you got a chance to remove him from office via the ballot box, you would do so.
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"When Brazil or when a president is impeached for a crime that they have not committed, the name we have for this in democracy -- it's not an impeachment, it is a coup," she said after the Senate voted to launch the proceedings.
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Kavanaugh worked for Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who investigated former President Clinton in the 1990s, and once argued that a president could be impeached for lying to his staff or misleading the public, which could have ripple effects for the Russia investigation.
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A congressional committee voted on Monday by a larger-than-expected margin to recommend that she be impeached for breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014, a charge Ms. Rousseff says was trumped up to remove her from office.
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In a CBS News Poll taken in January 255, 22016 percent of Republicans thought Mr. Clinton should be impeached for encouraging Monica Lewinsky, with whom he'd an affair, to protect him by lying under oath, while only 9 percent of Democrats thought this.
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First, the obstruction of Congress count, as I previously discussed, raises a troubling position that a president can be impeached for going to the courts rather than turning over evidence, even when the House set a ridiculously brief period for an investigation.
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Trump, on the other hand, was impeached for abuse of power for trying to have a foreign power influence a US election, and like Clinton, obstruction of justice; he committed a political wrong trying to conceal an attack on a democratic institution.
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The C.I.A. chief had no meetings scheduled with officials from the South Korean president's office, Mr. Turnbull said, or with any of the candidates vying to succeed Park Geun-hye, who was impeached for corruption in December and removed from office in March.
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One possible avenue for Trump is looking back, to Barack Obama, with a suggestion -- supported possibly with Justice Department legal opinions -- that the former president should have been impeached for blocking congressional Republicans from fully investigating the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal.
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Despite the argument that it could help him politically, Trump, according to the source, has worried about the possibility of being impeached for nearly a year, dating back to the weeks that followed the November 2018 midterms when Democrats won the House.
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The closed-door strategizing followed a day-long hearing at which House impeachment investigators presented their case against Trump, alleging that the president violated his oath of office and should be impeached for trying to pressure Ukraine to help his reelection campaign.
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A U.S. whistleblower has lodged a complaint about the contents of a telephone conversation between Trump and Zelenskiy on July 25, leading to calls from some Democrats that Trump be impeached for trying to enlist a foreign power to smear a domestic opponent.
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The former Secretary of State and two-time presidential hopeful went to bat for her husband Sunday during an interview with CBS, in which a reporter asked if then-President Clinton should have resigned after being impeached for lying about his affair with Lewinsky.
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In four sessions scheduled through Friday, the seven-member electoral court will discuss whether to annul the 2014 re-election victory of then-President Dilma Rousseff and her running mate, Temer, who became president last year when Rousseff was impeached for breaking budget laws.
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"When Brazil or when a president is impeached for a crime that they have not committed, the name we have for this in democracy, it's not an impeachment, it is a coup," she told journalists in May after the Senate voted to launch the proceedings.
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"When Brazil or when a president is impeached for a crime that they have not committed, the name we have for this in democracy, it's not an impeachment, it is a coup," she said in May after the Senate voted to launch the proceedings.
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As the leader of its biggest party called for President Sergio Mattarella to be impeached for refusing to install western Europe's first all-populist government, Italy appeared to be heading for fresh elections at which anti-establishment parties were expected to increase their parliamentary majority.
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Hundreds of teachers and students at his former alma mater, Queen's College, have signed a petition demanding he be impeached for "siding with mobs," and there have also been calls for his horse, "Hong Kong Bet," to be banned from racing by the Jockey Club.
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West Hughes Humphreys was impeached for something that no federal official could find themselves subjected to in modern times: serving simultaneously as a US district court judge in Tennessee and as a Confederate judge in the same state at the beginning of the Civil War.
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So it is perhaps inevitable to see Democrats who praise and laud the Clinton administration say that Bill Clinton should probably have resigned the presidency when he was impeached for lying and narrowly escaped being removed from office during a dramatic trial in the Senate.
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Alan Dershowitz, one of President Donald Trump&aposs defense attorneys, argued during Wednesday&aposs impeachment trial that a president can&apost be impeached for a quid pro quo designed to boost his reelection chances if he believes his reelection is in the public interest.
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Democrats had once expected the president to be impeached for his dealings with Russia in 2016, and Republicans denounced a special counsel inquiry into the matter, accusing Democrats and senior law enforcement officials of pushing this narrative because they wanted to undermine Mr. Trump's victory.
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" Pointing fingers all around: Last night, President Trump called for Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Tillis says impeachment is 'a waste of resources' MORE (D-Calif.) to be impeached for committing "treason.
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Alan Dershowitz, legal counsel for President Donald Trump WASHINGTON — Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz told senators that presidents cannot be impeached for using their powers of office to boost their own political fortunes, as long as they believe their reelection is best for the country.
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In the midst of the storm over Judge Baer, the chief justice used a previously scheduled speech at American University in Washington, D.C., to restate what he called the "guiding principle" of the Chase episode, that federal judges should never be impeached for their decisions.
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Our own Eric Sundermann described it as "a record [that] makes so much sense that whoever is the President of Indie Rock needs to be impeached for not making it happen sooner"; upon its release, Colin Joyce got caught up in the daydream vibe of the record.
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"Clinton got impeached for cheating on his wife, and it's so clear that this n---a has sex with so many porn stars, and he's just been shown to be a dickhead, and it's like, 'Nope,'" added the outspoken entertainer, who's pregnant with her first child.
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Yet no one suggested that President Bush be charged with obstruction of justice, because in pardoning those witnesses he was exercising his constitutional authority under Article II. President Andrew Johnson was impeached for firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of a statute passed by Congress.
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Even in the wake of him getting impeached for allegedly trying to leverage diplomacy into an opposition research operation for his campaign, it seems his strategy to win reelection is to push whoever his Democratic opponent ends up being into the gutter and fight with them there.
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One Republican member said they believed Trump "felt bad" they had to miss the White House congressional ball after they spent 14 hours fighting against charges that Trump should be impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the two articles of impeachment Democrats have introduced.
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In September, when the newly elected Parliament convened, Zelensky and the party quickly went to work, passing key anti-corruption legislation, including a bill that stripped lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution and another that allows for a sitting president to be impeached for breaking the law.
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Last month, Mr. Brennan said the president should be impeached for "treasonous" behavior after Mr. Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a news conference in Finland and cast doubt on the conclusion of the intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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But the fact that Trump feels no shame about encouraging them to do so says something about his willingness to do whatever it takes to win reelection — especially coming as it does in the immediate aftermath of him getting impeached for trying to cheat in the 2020 election.
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If the cases require him to offer depositions, they could expose him to serious legal jeopardy if he is not completely truthful -- after all, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in the Paula Jones suit that originated with a relationship that occurred before he was president.
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There needs to be a process that I believe ... that's investigating him for, as the Constitution lays out — and people should read their Constitution about what it means to be impeached, what can you be impeached for, the kind of high crimes and what the process of impeachment is.
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Now with the F.B.I. raids on Cohen's various offices, the emanations and penumbras from Robert Mueller's investigation seem to have raised the Stormy Daniels stakes, pushing us closer to a scenario in which our first openly Hefnerian president gets impeached for illegalities related to an adult entertainer and her charms.
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Mr. Trump, who is on the verge of being impeached for pushing Ukraine to help him against his Democratic rivals while withholding American security aid, said later Tuesday that he had no concern about Mr. Bolton testifying and that he was resisting the House investigation because he considered it illegitimate.
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A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Justice Department must turn over former special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury evidence to the House Judiciary Committee, a groundbreaking victory for Democrats in their effort to investigate whether President Donald Trump should be impeached for obstructing the long-running Russia probe.
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Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice regarding his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.
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In 1992, President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil resigned before being impeached for corruption; millions of dollars were discovered at the Washington-based Riggs Bank in the name of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; and Mexican presidents, dating back to the late '40s, are suspected of having stashed away enormous fortunes.
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Though the impeachment affair is today sometimes remembered as being the product of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" (to quote Hillary Clinton) or a bunch of hypocritical Republican hucksters getting fake-outraged over a blowjob, Clinton wasn't impeached for sexual transgressions as such, and no one forced him to repeatedly lie in public.
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Go deeper: McConnell on Senate impeachment trial: "I'm not an impartial juror" Trump impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Inside the McConnell-Trump impeachment trial playbook Editor's note: This article has been updated following the House impeachment vote to reflect that the Senate trial is now set to go ahead.
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Attacking Obama and Democrats The White House is expected to rely on Justice Department legal opinions issued under Democratic administrations to make their case -- including arguing that, under House Democrats' standard, Obama should have been impeached for withholding documents and testimony from Republican investigators pursuing information about the "Fast and Furious" scandal.
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Her recollections of that call — based in part on extensive notes she took as the two leaders spoke — have made the veteran Foreign Service officer a key witness in the Democratic-led inquiry into whether Mr. Trump should be impeached for trying to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into his political rivals.
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But, of course, they wanted Hillary to win, but he was pressed on how he mishandled the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and almost unbelievably Clinton, who was impeached for lying under like under oath, said he did the right thing Remember, Paula Jones said he dropped his pants and got naked in front of her.
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On Monday, Trump's defense attorneys argued House Democrats failed to present enough evidence, even as an explosive report from the New York Times emerged suggesting Trump gave direct orders to John Bolton, his former national security adviser, to withhold aid to Ukraine until it announced the Biden investigation — exactly what he has been impeached for.
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Read more:There&aposs a popular betting website that shows the likelihood of political events — here&aposs what it says about Trump&aposs impeachment oddsSenate Republicans are blocking photographers from documenting the moment the House delivers articles of impeachment against TrumpTrump tweets in all caps that he &aposJUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!
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WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the front-runner to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once argued that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to his staff and misleading the public, a broad definition of obstruction of justice that would be damaging if applied to President Trump in the Russia investigation.
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This conduct by President Trump, his son and his campaign manager and deputy campaign manager are probably civil violations of coordination for enforcement by the F.E.C. Presidents should not be impeached for civil election violations, but one should still be able to conclude that Mr. Mueller established coordination with the Russian government as a factual matter.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress along a party-line vote after documents and testimony by senior administration officials revealed that he had withheld $252 million in aid to Ukraine at the same time that he asked for investigations from the Ukrainian president that would benefit him politically.
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The current Supreme Court nominee should know all about the Clintons; he worked for special counsel Kenneth Starr and helped write the Starr report, which started as an investigation into a land deal, spread to an investigation of alleged sexual harassment and ended with a recommendation that Clinton be impeached for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
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Despite his defiant comments that he believes the process might help him politically, the President has worried about the possibility of being impeached for nearly a year, dating back to the weeks that followed the November 2018 midterms when Democrats won the House, a source close to the White House who routinely speaks with Trump said.
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Critics of President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed Sondland attorney disputes key portions of Taylor testimony: report Impeachment inquiry might be public by mid-November: report MORE drove "Grandma Winnie" into Twitter's list of trending items on Tuesday after a video went viral showing a woman saying she wanted President Trump to be impeached for her birthday.
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During an interview broadcast Monday night with Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityThe Hill's 12:85033 Report — Presented by Nareit — Trump lifting Turkey sanctions after claiming 'permanent' ceasefire Clinton 2020 whisper campaign hits new heights Graham to introduce resolution condemning House impeachment inquiry MORE of Fox News, Trump suggested his predecessor, President Obama, also could have been impeached for various political scandals.
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Attorney Alan DershowitzAlan Morton Dershowitz'Emotion' from Trump's legal team wins presidential plaudits The Senate should reject Dershowitz argument on Johnson impeachment Barr wrote 2018 memo contradicting Trump's claim that abuse of power is not impeachable MORE said on Sunday the argument that a president cannot be impeached for abusing his power is a "strong one" that has been successful in the past.
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ABC's "This Week" host George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert StephanopoulosPelosi: Trump is 'impeached for life' National security adviser: US embassies not evacuated because 'we're not going to cut and run every time somebody threatens us' Pelosi on Trump: 'Every knock from him is a boost' MORE asked the Speaker on Sunday if she had any "second thoughts" about withholding the articles from the upper chamber.
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When pressed during her interview by host George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert StephanopoulosPelosi: Trump is 'impeached for life' National security adviser: US embassies not evacuated because 'we're not going to cut and run every time somebody threatens us' Pelosi on Trump: 'Every knock from him is a boost' MORE on Sunday about whether she is having second thoughts about delaying the articles, Pelosi said no.
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There's a moral, but extralegal argument to be made that Trump should be impeached for things well outside the scope of the report that may present themselves in the course of investigating potential obstruction, and that his bigotries, the atrocities he's created at the border, his constitutional violations, his enabling of Russian interference in 2016, his potential financial crimes, merit that response on their own.
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But, taking a page from the Republican playbook in the Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE impeachment, some Democrats are saying that Kavanaugh can be impeached for the testimony he gave about those long-past events.
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One of the things that's so alarming about what he's done is it's so closely related to what he did with Ukraine, and so open, that one of the dangers is he's sending a message to the world: 'I not only can but will do the very thing that I was impeached for because the Senate has blessed my use of governmental authority for my personal gain.
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A "Jimmy KimmelJames (Jimmy) Christian KimmelTrump fans defend Watergate scandal when Kimmel swaps Nixon's name for Trump's The Hill's 85033:30 Report: What we learned from first impeachment transcripts Kimmel shares clip contrasting Obama's announcement of bin Laden's death with Trump's al-Baghdadi speech MORE Live!" segment titled "Lie Witness News" that aired Tuesday showed a television crew walking around Hollywood and interviewing random people about whether Trump should be impeached for committing certain acts.
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Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup MORE (D-Va.) electrified his base by saying Trump might be charged with treason or impeached for such a crime — even though such a charge is rarely raised without the precursor of a declaration of war. Sen.
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Sources told the publication that conservatives have been preparing to have Rosenstein impeached for weeks over allegations that he's held up their investigation into FBI agents who some lawmakers say are biased against President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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Pelosi was responding largely to comments made Wednesday evening by Alan DershowitzAlan Morton DershowitzTrump couldn't get Ukraine to smear Joe Biden, so Senate Republicans did it for him Trump's acquittal may have profound impact on presidential power Why the Senate must convict MORE, a celebrity lawyer on Trump's legal team, who asserted on the Senate floor that presidents cannot be impeached for actions designed to boost their reelections — if they believe that retaining a grip on the White House is in the best interest of the country.
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Adam Schiff: Today, while we've been debating whether a president can be impeached for essentially bogus claims of privilege, for attempting to use the courts to cover up misconduct, the Justice Department in resisting House subpoenas is in court today and was asked, well, if the Congress can't come to the court to enforce its subpoenas, because as we know, they're in here arguing, Congress must go to court to enforce the subpoenas, but then the court is saying, Congress, thou shall not do that.
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The president's lawyers have argued first, that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and now, that he cannot be impeached because he is not alleged to have committed any crimes and that he cannot be impeached for abuses of power, views brilliantly rebutted by Professor Alan DershowitzAlan Morton Dershowitz'Emotion' from Trump's legal team wins presidential plaudits The Senate should reject Dershowitz argument on Johnson impeachment Barr wrote 2018 memo contradicting Trump's claim that abuse of power is not impeachable MORE during the Clinton case in the 1990s.
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Resolved, That Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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So it's no wonder that his presidency has proven a breeding ground for fantasies of his regime's demise that range from the responsible — see my colleague Ezra Klein's case that Trump should be impeached for being ridiculously bad at his job — to the conspiratorial and preposterous (see Louise Mensch's claims that Trump's impeachment and arrest are imminent and that the "Marshal of the Supreme Court" had informed the president his impeachment was coming; or Jamie Kirchick, who even before Trump's presidency was musing about a military coup unseating him).
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So it's no wonder his presidency has proved a breeding ground for fantasies of his regime's demise that range from the responsible — see my colleague Ezra Klein's case that Trump should be impeached for being ridiculously bad at his job — to the conspiratorial and preposterous (see Louise Mensch's claims that Trump's impeachment and arrest were imminent and that the "Marshal of the Supreme Court" had informed the president his impeachment was coming; or Jamie Kirchick, who even before Trump's presidency was musing about a military coup unseating him).
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To simplify, what happened next was: Essentially, a butterfly flapped its wings in Kyiv five and a half years ago, and now there's a tornado in Washington, DC. All year, many Democrats have grown hoarse from shouting that Trump should be impeached for so many reasons: the apparent obstruction of justice offenses outlined in the Mueller report, the corruption involved in Trump's continued ownership of his business while president, his seeming violation of campaign finance law with hush money payments, his bigotry, the administration's family separation policy, and his general erratic behavior and unfitness of character.
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Amidst the hand-wringing over whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE could be indicted or impeached (for possible federal campaign finance violations in connection to his former lawyer Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Hope Hicks defends accuracy of her congressional testimony MORE) comparisons with the Starr investigation are inevitable — and warranted.
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House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOn The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans House delivers impeachment articles to Senate Senate begins preparations for Trump trial MORE (D-Calif.) said in a recent interview that President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE has been "impeached for life" regardless of how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellNew Parnas evidence escalates impeachment witnesses fight On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans GOP senator: 2020 candidates must recuse themselves from impeachment trial MORE (R-Ky.) handles the upcoming Senate trial.
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