
Our inheritance of impeachment also includes unwritten assumptions from organic evolution and common sense. In the United States, only specific officers preside: chief justice (for presidents), Senate president (vice president), or Senate president pro tempore. No ifs or buts—it’s plain logic. Charters specify offenses like treason and bribery but use the catch-all “other high crimes,” […]... Keep on reading: A very strange impeachment (2)
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