Will Presidential Impeachment Become New Normal?
Then-President Donald Trump seems pleased with this USA Today headline as he arrives to speak at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
When the House impeached Donald Trump in late 2019 on ambiguous charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, many legal experts expressed concern about normalizing impeachment previously a very rare procedure.
Unlike the charges in the first impeachment, federal statutes cover both incitement and insurrection the basis of the charge in the House’s second impeachment of Trump.
Nevertheless, the second impeachment, just more than a year later, may have exacerbated such concerns of making impeachment a routine process.