the run of the mill improper practices that the president would not be able to govern the country. they would lord over him and he would not never be able to act creatively and would fail. so the framers had this idea that you need some real wrong doing. high crimes and misdemeanors or bribery or treason are serious offenses because otherwise the impeachment power could get out of hand. what rises to the level of an impeachment offense? as long as it s a grave abuse of power that threatens to dissolve the kind of republic that we have, it would be an impeachable offense. it s not a technical concept. it doesn t have to violate the criminal code. explain why your central conclusion is why that we should proceed on the impeachment path very cautiously. you seem to be saying basically you don t think impeachment is such a great idea.
suffice or even unconstitutional behavior. you know a lot about the et mollments clause. you re involved in those cases. it does appear on the face of it there are a lot of foreign countries trying to please donald trump by throwing business his way. various condominium projects. it sounds like a gift and that would seem to run afoul of the clause of the constitution. it s certainly agreed the president is in sustained and ongoing violation of the et mollments clause. his violations get worse every day. at the very least, we learn every passing day of new ways he s violating it. he s been awfully creative. the question of whether the president should be impeached for violating the constitution or for run of the mill wrong doing was a question that the framers put a lot of thought into. their concern was that if congress could remove the president for what they thought of mall administration or one of