4-26-2019

Examining The Impeachment Process

Don’t you just get tired of hearing “Impeachment” coming from the House of Representatives? It has become their battle cry over the past 2+ years. To liberal House members two words must certainly be uttered together “Impeach Trump”. Don’t they ever give up?

What offenses are worthy of impeachment?

The Constitution states them as any of these acts “Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors?”

However it’s up to the members of the House of Representatives.

According to Constitutional Lawyers,

“High Crimes and Misdemeanors” are

• Real criminality — breaking a law;
• Abuses of power;
• “Violation of public trust” as defined by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers.

In 1970, then Representative Gerald R. Ford defined impeachable offenses as

• “Whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”

It’s a little known fact that since…