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brucejoel99
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« on: April 23, 2019, 03:18:19 PM »

There really aren't any criteria for impeachment. All that's needed is the appropriate number of votes in Congress. Yeah, the standard is high crimes & misdemeanors, but Congress gets to decide what those are & when they count. Hence Gerald Ford's famous impeachment quote: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
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