Impeachment: What Did the Founders Mean By “High Misdemeanors?”
It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”
It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”
In the New York Times, Greg Weiner (Assumption College Political Science/Liberty Law Blog): Impeachment’s Political Heart. From the core of the argument: Our tendency to read the impeachment power in an overly legalistic way, which is ratified by 230 years of excessive timidity about its use, obscures the political rather than juridical nature of the…