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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (4657)	9/22/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

I have and continue to argue that there are two sorts of reasons for which a President may legitimately be impeached under the Constitution. Either for a serious misdemeanor, or misuse of his office. Which does not require any legal standard or violation of law, but properly does require a high, or serious misuse. Or for a High Crime. Which does require that criminal standards be met, definitional. And further requires that a High, rather than just any, crime be committed by the President. And I most definitely do not think the President should properly be impeached simply because a sufficient majority can be obtained in the Senate (and a bare one in the House). Our Constitution explicitly requires more. Although certainly there is considerable proper discretion allowed to Congress. Doug