The Constitution authorizes presidential impeachment if the president can be shown to have committed "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."  Democrats are ignoring this language and trying to recreate a parliamentary system. Since the Nation's founding, it's been understood that the term "other high crimes and misdemeanors" refers to indictable crimes, just as treason and bribery do: As you can read in the journals of past infamous impeachment trials, Founding Fathers, respected jurists, and legal scholars each argued near the very founding of our country: "[n]othing is impeachable that is not also indictable." (Source: Hinds' Precedents, Volume 3, Chapter 72, "The Impeachment and Trial of Samuel Chase," published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office[.)] The Democrats, however, have no indictable offense against President Trump.  Neither...(Read Full Post)