“If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning," UNC law professor Michael Gerhardt told Congress.
A constitutional law scholar told a House impeachment panel Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s attempt to solicit a foreign investigation into his political opponent and his obstruction of congressional investigations amount to the worst presidential misconduct in history.
The University of North Carolina law professor ran out of time and omitted that line during his actual remarks, in which he laid out the ways Trump’s conduct aligns with historical definitions of impeachable offenses. “If what we’re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable,” Gerhardt added later, during questioning from Norm Eisen, House Democrats’ counsel. “This is precisely misconduct that the framers created a Constitution, including impeachment, to protect against. If Congress concludes they are going to give a pass to the president here, every other president will say, ‘OK, then I can do the same thing.
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