The Guy Who Wrote the Book on Impeachment Says Trump Clears the Bar for Removal from Office

[babylonsister]

October 1, 2019 1:46PM ET
The Guy Who Wrote the Book on Impeachment Says Trump Clears the Bar for Removal from Office
“It’s as plain a case of abuse of power as one can easily imagine”
By Tim Dickinson


Frank O. Bowman wrote the book on impeaching the 45th president. Published in July, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump seeks to ground the talk about removing the president from office in centuries of history and practice. A law professor who teaches at the University of Missouri and lectures on impeachment at Georgetown, Bowman doesn’t pretend to be above the fray, politically. He describes himself as a “centrist” Democrat. But he insists, “I’ve tried hard to play it straight in applying rigorous legal and constitutional analysis.”

Bowman’s book has become extremely timely after, as he puts it, the “dam broke” and the House launched a formal impeachment inquiry last week into Trump’s attempts to strong-arm Ukraine into digging up dirt on Joe Biden. For Bowman, as a constitutional scholar, the impeachment bar has been cleared. “He’s gone far enough — what he’s done amounts to impeachable offenses,” he says. “And moreover Congress ought to do something about it.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/impeachment-expert-law-trump-merits-removal-893358/

[lunasun]

1. Wonder what the US will be afraid of with his removal that could push back . Besides deplorables

and republican hacks ,
I imagine greedy people putting their 401ks before country fearing stock market reaction
and the don’t rock the boat types we need to all get along
but really this is disgrace to our country and it’s world standing imo
More than enough now
Plus we need to turn our attention to making sure once he is gone that the 2020 election is clean which is going to be very hard so hope his part is completed in a swift manner

[Blue_Tires]

2. Yeah, the case is pretty open-and-shut

it only requires the stones to do what is necessary...

[hlthe2b]

3. So do the authors of what I consider to be the hallmark book on Impeachment, Laurence Tribe and

Joshua Matz, "To End a Presidency" published May, 2018.