impeachment – Michael S. Law

Quid Pro Quo! Oh, no!

The Democrats in the impeachment hearings focused much of their time on what they called a quid pro quo by the President of the United States. This so-called abuse of power resulted in a partisan impeachment, not based on any “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” as the Constitution requires, but simply political disdain and contempt for the …

Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution states, “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” In this the Constitution is clear. What is also clear in the Constitution is that the House of Representative as the …

All the talk of impeachment of President Trump has shown the disdain for the Constitution that the parties have or, at the very least, how uneducated about the Constitution they are. I will attempt to demonstrate just a few ways of how this is true.

First, the requirement for impeachment in the House of Representatives, followed by trial and removal …