President Donald Trump is not charged in either of the articles of impeachment with violating a criminal statute, although he is accused of unlawful conduct.
"For my testimony before Congress during the impeachment hearings of both President Clinton and Trump, I took the opposing view that a president can be impeached for a noncriminal act," he said.
As Turley noted, the standard of"high crimes and misdemeanors" is borrowed directly from the British Parliament, which developed a process of impeachment over centuries through which that phrase was born. In England, it was frequently used to remove officials for non-criminal conduct. Turley also sparred with Dershowitz over his reliance on President Andrew Johnson's 1868 impeachment to bolster his argument. While Turley derided the impeachers who sought to oust Johnson,of impeachment experts, he also disputed Dershowitz's assertion that the 1868 trial set a standard for purely criminal behavior.
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