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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (115866)	3/27/2019 3:07:43 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362612

I'm just going to say that if someone attempted to impeach without a crime I think it would give rise to serious constitutional crisis, because there would be no meaningful standard in place. I heard a young woman, a talking head, on CNN tonight refer to it as "lawful but awful". Depends on how awful, seems to me, and how broadly regarded as such. If you think about it, impeaching for criminal activity only obviates the whole point of impeachment. There already exists a mechanism for removing criminals from society. It's called the criminal justice system. If the president (or other official) commits a crime, then he could theoretically be indicted and sent to jail just like anyone else. Why, then, create a process called impeachment? Since, however, an impeachment process was set up, it logically must have been intended for something broader than just criminal acts beyond a reasonable doubt. It must have been intended for the truly awful yet not necessarily criminal.