Does the Constitution justify impeaching Trump?
(CNN)For two tumultuous months, Washington has been fixated on what President Donald Trump did. Now it’s time to work out what should happen to him.
- “The list of impeachable offenses the Framers included in the Constitution shows that the essence of an impeachable offense is a president’s decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends.”
- “The president’s serious misconduct, including bribery, soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power, and obstructing justice and Congress are worse than the misconduct of any prior president…”
- “A president who will not cooperate in an impeachment inquiry is putting himself above the law. Now, putting yourself above the law as president is the core of an impeachable offense because if the president could not be impeached for that, he would in fact not be responsible to anybody,”
- “Fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment. … If you rush this impeachment, you’re going to leave half the country behind.”
- “This isn’t an impulse-buy item. You’re trying to remove a duly elected president of the United States.”