During a Monday morning appearance on CNN's "New Day," legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told host Brianna Keilar that he has no doubt in his mind that a Republican-majority House of Representatives will attempt to impeach President Joe Biden if they take control after the midterm election.As part of...
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Many on the Right see Trump's impeachment as unfair persecution of an innocent man.
Given that they take back the House, should they impeach Biden for retribution?
I voted no awhile back, but thinking about it a bit, I want to add a caveat.
"No, unless he does something worthy of impeachment."
Of course, I'm fully aware that "something worthy" has a wide range of possible interpretations.
So I'll put it a different way: "Not just because Trump was impeached."
Even if Republicans for some reason followed this guideline, it likely would not stop attempts to impeach him based on reasons that are even less concrete than Trump's 1st impeachment.
I have yet to find a definitive explanation or definition of what "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" means, in the impeachment clause of the constitution.
The one that makes the most sense to me is for the "Misdemeanors" term to include "abuse of power" and "breach of public trust", but by those definitions I suspect at least 50% of congress and the senate would need to be impeached.
Maybe that's how it should be used, but with how much of a tradition using public office to improve one's private situation has become, it'd wipe out most of both main parties.
And they're the ones who would have to vote for each and every impeachment, so that ain't gonna happen unless we somehow manage to elect enough people who resist the culture in Congress long enough to overturn the tradition.
If I had my way there would be a primary challenger for every incumbent in every election, if only to ensure they had to either debate their positions or hide.