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What's an "impeachable" crime — and what isn't? History offers some dark lessons


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Impeachment dramas on Capitol Hill have routinely skipped over a question that we should be willing to ask, even if Congress won t: What about a president s unimpeachable offenses?
The question is the flipside of one that Republican Gerald Ford candidly addressed when he was the House minority leader 50 years ago: What, then, is an impeachable offense? The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.  
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By narrowly defining which offenses are impeachable, political elites are implicitly telling us which offenses aren t. ....

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Hidden in plain sight: The "unimpeachable" offenses


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Hidden in plain sight: The “unimpeachable” offenses
The presidential offenses that are routinely considered unimpeachable and therefore ultimately acceptable tell us a lot about Congress. And about U.S. mass media. And maybe about ourselves.
Impeachment dramas on Capitol Hill have routinely skipped over a question that we should be willing to ask even if Congress won’t: “What about a president’s unimpeachable offenses?”
The question is the flip side of one that Republican Gerald Ford candidly addressed when he was the House minority leader 50 years ago: “What, then, is an impeachable offense? The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” ....

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