Constitutional Law
May 24, 2017
A history of threats to impeach
While impeachment threats historically constitute little more than lunatic fringe theatre, the appointment of Bob Mueller as Justice Department special prosecutor should give the president pause.
James Attridge
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U Denver School of Law
James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.
"An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given time in history." Little did Gerald Ford know that he was writing his own story when he made that observation two years prior to the Watergate break-in that launched his improbable elevation to the presidency. At the time he made that pithy observation, Congressman Ford was doing President Richard Nixon's bidding by demanding the impeachment of liberal lion Justice William O. Dougla...
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