Burninator is right...as the last impeachment farce showed, that the House can pretty much impeach for anything. Andrew Johnson, the guy before Clinton who was impeached...his crime was breaking the "Tenure in Office Act" a law later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court that said that presidents can't fire those in the executive branch approved by the Senate. It failed by one vote.
Which is not part of the criminal code, and intentionally vague. It is whatever the house and senate want it to be. Long story short, if two thirds of the duly elected senators want POTUS out, he is out. It was an intentional check on the power of the president, by the founding fathers. It is an expression of the will of the people.
Impeachment has literally nothing to do with the criminal code.
Burninator is right...as the last impeachment farce showed, that the House can pretty much impeach for anything. Andrew Johnson, the guy before Clinton who was impeached...his crime was breaking the "Tenure in Office Act" a law later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court that said that presidents can't fire those in the executive branch approved by the Senate. It failed by one vote.
This 9% approval rating congress has basically made a mockery of impeachment. Way to go, assholes.
"High crimes and misdemeanors"
Which is not part of the criminal code, and intentionally vague. It is whatever the house and senate want it to be. Long story short, if two thirds of the duly elected senators want POTUS out, he is out. It was an intentional check on the power of the president, by the founding fathers. It is an expression of the will of the people.