What Do Scholars Say About the Impeachment Power? - Lawfare

What Do Scholars Say About the Impeachment Power? - Lawfare: Then-Rep. Gerald Ford once defined an impeachable offense as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” But legal scholars have concluded that impeachment is considerably more law-governed, and constrained, than Ford suggested. They draw on clues from the Founders, the text and structure of the Constitution, and the