Source: The American Conservative
by James W Carden
“For those of my vintage, impeachment recalls the tawdry tale of Clinton, Lewinsky, and the Blue Dress. Younger Americans, while only dimly aware of what is happening in the world outside their devices, may all the same have some notion that the incoming president, Mr. Donald Trump of Queens, New York, was twice impeached during his first term in office. And of course there is the very first impeachment, that of Andrew Johnson, who escaped conviction in the Senate because the act he was accused of violating, the Tenure of Office Act, was itself unconstitutional. One will note, however, that none of these impeachment efforts concerned the constitutionality of America’s misadventures abroad, the wars (or ‘police actions’) waged in the absence of a Congressional declaration as laid out in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution.” (01/02/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-new-history-of-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors/