What are high crimes and misdemeanors?. The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” appears in Article II section 4 of the U.S. Constitution: The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers ...

As I see it, the majority of confusion in this impeachment inquiry rests with a single phrase: “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Found in Article II Section 4 of the Constitution, ...

In the current impeachment debate, some of the President's defenders seem to have adopted a similar approach to the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" in Article II, Section 4.

Article II, Section 4 of The Constitution states the grounds for impeachment as treason, bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors. “High” in the phrase does NOT refer to the ...

But was high crimes and misdemeanors truly less vague than maladministration? As Healy notes, in the Commentaries on the Laws of England, a legal reference book that Madison said was “in every ...

The following column is the opinion and analysis of the writer. Those troublesome words “high crimes and misdemeanors” will busy the news again, now that the U.S. House has sent two articles ...

The phrase “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” entered the American Constitution because George Mason of Virginia was unhappy that, as the Constitutional Convention was drawing to a close, the ...

High crimes and misdemeanors was a compromise to settle that particular dispute. It was a phrase they had heard, that they understood in their own time. And Madison was very much an architect of ...

High crimes and misdemeanors Nicolas Shump Special to The Capital-Journal Article 2, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution provides for the impeachment of the president among other public officials.

Some U.S. Senators have made public statements that they will not convict President Trump even before they have heard all the impeachment-related evidence. There should be a full hearing of ...

Ultimately, besides the very specific possibility of treason or bribery, "high crimes and misdemeanors" are the charges on which a president can be impeached, according to Section II Article IIII ...

While “high crimes and misdemeanors” is commonly thought to refer to significant abuses of presidential power, rather than criminal violations, there are several different camps of ...