re: #361 lawhawk

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These fuckers think that they can bluster and bulkshit their way to avoiding impeachment by claiming that the Founders didn’t envision this scenario?

Bulkshit.

They spent a lot of time thinking about impeachment, and giving Congress the power to remove a sitting president who engages in criminal conduct - high crimes and misdemeanors and bribery.

The thing the Founders would never get past is that Trump has engaged in all kinds of misconduct that the Founders would consider treasonous, and they wouldn’t just seek impeachment and removal, but prosecution and execution for treason.

They took those things seriously.

One of the great flaws of American history is that Congress has been too slow to use impeachment. Jackson should have been impeached for the Trail of Tears, Grant probably should have been impeached for rampant corruption, Harrison for the Teapot Dome Scandal, Truman regarding Youngstown Steel and declaring an emergency, Nixon for Watergate, possibly Ford for the Nixon pardons, Reagan for Iran Contra, Clinton’s for perjury/lying under oath, GWB for Iraq lies. There’s probably more examples.

The problem is from the beginning Congress has bristled at executive overreach while also being ok with it. In part because a stronger executive relieves Congress of having to make tough decisions.