we know what treason & bribery mean, but what does "other high crimes & misdemeanors" mean?

[basquebromance]

you can say Reggie Miller, Tom Brady, & John Cena are great athletes, but you cant say Napoleon Bonaparte is a great athlete just because he was great on the battlefield. thus, the high crimes and misdemeanors denotes the same type of things as treason and bribery.

we need a misdeed that makes it impossible to entrust trump with the presidency ever again. is paying off a porn star such a misdeed? you decide!

 

[basquebromance]

"crime" means CRIME! it doesnt mean something else!

 

[Asclepias]

you can say Reggie Miller, Tom Brady, & John Cena are great athletes, but you cant say Napoleon Bonaparte is a great athlete just because he was great on the battlefield. thus, the high crimes and misdemeanors denotes the same type of things as treason and bribery.

we need a misdeed that makes it impossible to entrust trump with the presidency ever again. is paying off a porn star such a misdeed? you decide!

Giving blow jobs to the heads of states from hostile nations like Russia has to be something we can charge Drumpf with.

 

[bendog]

See Flopper's post 296

http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/trump-will-be-impeached.725292/page-30#post-21359807

From his link

James Madison of Virginia successfully argued that an election every four years did not provide enough of a check on a president who was incapacitated or abusing the power of the office. He contended that “loss of capacity, or corruption . . . might be fatal to the republic” if the president could not be removed until the next election

And that's been my understanding. Impeachment requires some indication that elections just won't work to remedy the abuse of power. The corruption goes so deep, that the potus must go so elections can go on in the future.

 

[JGalt]

Dude man. That's driving while high on pot, dude. Which is so totally a misdemeanor, dude.

 

[xyz]

His payoffs were infringing upon campaign financing laws.

Would anybody have cared if that was the only thing he did wrong? Now we're getting into alternate dimensions, unfit for serious discussion. Too hypothetical with no basis in reality.