What's 'Impeachable?' History Doesn't Tell Us

What's 'Impeachable?' History Doesn't Tell Us
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mpeachment 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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