Analysis: Why bona-fide crimes may not be enough to impeach Trump
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 6 at 4:38 PM A Quinnipiac University poll Tuesday carried this striking top-line number: 64 percent of Americans believe President Trump committed crimes before he became president. And 45 percent say they think he committed crimes while serving in the Oval Office.
The standard for impeachment, of course, isn’t just any crime; it’s “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Exactly what that means is in the eye of the beholder, and it’s often been said that impeachment is a political remedy to a legal issue. It’s basically a standard that is decided on by the American people, as reflected by their elected members of Congress.
Clinton, of course, wound up being accused of both by Kenneth Starr, who listed 11 impeachable offenses in what came to be known as the Starr Report. He was impeached, but the votes in the Senate weren’t there for removal.
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