Thanks founding Fathers, Not!

Take a class with the Dersh and you will understand...

Please listen to Dershowitz' presentation yesterday where he completely explains the Founders' thinking and reasoning and their intent. Brilliantly done and pointing out why and what items were eliminated as grounds for impeachment.

so long as we have Originalists on the court, we are safe.....

A misdemeanor is a violation of a criminal statute the potential jail sentence of which is less than one year.

Given that, one would assume a High Crime would equate to a felony. Which is any violation punishable by more than one year in jail.

Neither of these are what the President did.

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Neither of these are what the President did.

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or you can say it was more like treason than a misdemeanor.

Holding congressionally allocated funds that were intended to be used in.the armed conflict between russia and ukraine.

Undermined congressional foreign policy solely to get propaganda against biden, who was leading all candidates in the then current polling.

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or you can say it was more like treason than a misdemeanor.

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LoL. Well then the Democrats certainly could have charged him with Treason. It is one of the defined acts that allows for impeachment. They didn’t because he clearly didn’t do that either. Your post really makes zero sense.

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or you can say it was more like treason than a misdemeanor.

Holding congressionally allocated funds that were intended to be used in.the armed conflict between russia and ukraine.

Undermined congressional foreign policy solely to get propaganda against biden, who was leading all candidates in the then current polling.

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Never go full Rextard.

If Trump's intent was to smear or eliminate Biden, why wouldn't he wait until Biden actually won the nomination to do this?
At this particular point in time, he gains nothing politically by taking this route.

Have you factored this into your conclusion?

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Undermined congressional foreign policy

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Congress doesn't set foreign policy you jackass.

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And now with the twits in the House a President can impeached for about anything.

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This has always been the case. There has not been a impeachment of a President in this country that wasn’t rooted in partisan hackery.

The previous two backfired and so will this one.

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Illustrated the difference between sin and a crime

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So genius that line

From a legal nerd perspective, one thing I hadn’t considered in listening to him before and reading everything he wrote on the topic - was his argument that we ended common law crimes in this country like 200 yrs ago.

At the time the Const was written “high crimes and misdemeanors” were a creature of common law/common understanding. You could be convicted of something that wasn’t defined by a statute. It could be a “we know it when we see it” kind of thing.

After a SCOTUS case sometime in the 1800s the concept of common law crimes was ruled unconstitutional. (I haven’t read the case but I would bet it was decided on a due process basis (notice and opportunity to be heard). You can’t have notice of a law that’s not written down but “in the bosom of each congressman” (as whoever that Senator Dersh quoted said).

He’s absolutely right. The crime would have to be defined by some statute to meet the legal definition of a crime under our constitution- even if the person wouldn’t be able to be convicted of it to constitute a “high crime and misdemeanor.” Examples he gave - statute of limitations; committed the act outside of jurisdiction of charging authorities.

We punish actions, that are defined as illegal, not thoughts in this country.

The man is a freaking genius and it’s the only time I’ve ever been sad that I didn’t go to Harvard. He’s a patriot and a credit to his profession.

OP should definitely pull up his presentation on YouTube and watch it. That shite will be studied by fledgling 1Ls for years to come. It was THAT monumental to our law.