Article snippet: Democrats’ articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump allege “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” — the two weakest possible charges among the many the House had been considering. The term “abuse of power” does not appear in the Constitution’s Impeachment Clause, which specifies that Congress’s power of impeachment covers “Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” That is not simply a conservative, originalist position: many liberal scholars agree. Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, author of the recent Case Against Impeaching Trump, argues in his that “abuse of power” is never impeachable — at least not without an underlying crime. In this case, there is none. Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley testified before the Judiciary Committee last week that while he agreed that a president could be impeached for abuse of power, the Trump case did not qualify, even if his Ukraine phone call was “anything but perfect. ” In a back-and-forth with Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), Turley made the point that under the loose “abuse of power” standard applied by the three Democrat-chosen panelists, which measured “abuse of power” by “political benefit,” every president in U.S. history could be impeached — including President Obama himself: Legal scholar Cass Sunstein, a former Obama administration official and an intellectual leader on the left, published a crucial book, Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide, in 2017. The book was c... Link to the full article to read more