What are High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

What are High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

by | Jun 16, 2025 | Impeachment

Judge Napolitano said in an interview on Newsmax TV back in February of this year that only crimes merit judicial impeachment. He said that “that federal judges should not be impeached based on political disagreements but only for committing high crimes or...
Some Impeachment Conundrums

Some Impeachment Conundrums

by | Dec 26, 2019 | Section 4: Impeachment

If nothing else, the impeachment proceedings have encouraged us to think about some interesting hypotheticals.  Here are a few: 1.  Can former Presidents be impeached?  Leading originalist-oriented blogger Keith Whittington says yes.  But I am not so sure.  The...
Skeptical on Impeachment

Skeptical on Impeachment

by | Dec 11, 2019 | Current Events, Impeachment

I’ll put the conclusion first: I think supporters of the present impeachment have largely stated the law correctly, but I’m skeptical of their application of the law to the facts. As indicated in a prior post, I mostly agree with the Majority Counsel’s scholarly and...