A compelling legal argument from professor Alan Dershowitz on the legal standard for impeachment. It's an hour, but if you enjoy a vigorous legal argument, well worth the time.
As I understand the argument, it boils down to simply that an impeachment is based on a crime as defined in law. What Trump may have done might be despicable, but not a crime defined in law. All the rest are political arguments that can be made for consideration at the ballot box, but those acts don't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
I recall a line from the 1966 version of "A Man for All Seasons", and a conversation among Thomas More, his daughter and his son in law:
ReplyDeleteMargaret More: Father, that man's bad.
Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that.
William Roper: There is: God's law.
Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.