Congress' Impeachment Power Should Not Go Unchecked
In our continued focus on Democrats who oppose impeachment, today we focus on famous lawyer and law professor Alan Dershowitz, who makes a strong case against impeachment, again. We say again because he also wrote a book about the first quasi-impeachment effort which became the Mueller report. Dershowitz details how Maxine Waters' interpretation of Congress' impeachment power is wrong and dangerous.
There are those like Congresswoman Maxine Waters who argue that Congress can impeach on any ground a majority wishes. “There is no law,” she has asserted, because then power to impeach is vested solely in the House and there is no judicial review of its actions. Even if that were true — and it is debatable —Waters’ lawless and reductionistic view confuses what Congress can get away with, as distinguished from what the Constitution obliges its members to do: namely to apply the criteria set out in the Constitution.
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