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Objections to Impeachment, Part 3: Overturning the Result of An Election

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Protest outside the White House, July 18, 2018 (bakdc / Shutterstock.com).
To object that the use of impeachment power is “anti-democratic” is to miss the point: democracy yields to the Constitution, not the other way around.

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Objections to Impeachment, Part II: The Specter of the “No Confidence” Vote

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Rep. Henry Hyde swears in Kenneth Starr to testify during Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, November 19, 1998 (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly / Alamy Stock Photo).
Has our system degenerated to the point that a president, once in office, can do whatever he wants as long as thirty-four senators support him?

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Objections to Impeachment, Part 1: The Specter of Abuse

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House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether impeachment proceedings should begin against President Bill Clinton October 5, 1998 in Washington, DC (Richard Ellis / Alamy Stock Photo).
Abuse is bound to happen with any government power, but that isn't a real objection against providing the power to impeach federal officials.

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The Constitutional Categories of Impeachable Offenses

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Impeachment was designed with the idea in mind that presidents sometimes might warrant removal from office, and this might flow from many causes.

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Is Early Impeachment Practice Relevant to Original Meaning?

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Title page to Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1st ed, 1833) (Image: Historic Images / Alamy Stock Photo).
Does the practice of impeachment in the early American republic offer guidance to understand "high crimes and misdemeanors" today?

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The Ratification-Era Understanding of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”

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Signing the Constitution, Louis Glanzman, 1987 (National Park Service)
Nearly all of the historical evidence favors a broad, political view of the impeachment power.

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Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, and the Power of Impeachment

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Statue of Alexander Hamilton at U.S. Treasury Department, by James Frasier (Image: Bill Perry/Shutterstock.com).
What was controversial and what needed defending in The Federalist essays on impeachment was placing the power in the Senate, not the power itself.

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The Original Meaning of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Part I

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In understanding what the Constitution means by "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," we should look to original meaning, not matters of intent.

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Congress Has Never Given the Supreme Court a Free Ride

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The Supreme Court is independent, yes, but Congress has several options for exercising control over the justices.

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Impeaching Judges: Some Preliminary and Prior Thoughts

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A review of thirty years of scholarship on why judicial impeachment - even on partisan grounds - is permissible.

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