re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter

All that is needed is for the crime to be committed while he was in office (also before he was in office?); British practice when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution permitted impeachment after the official left office and that was also American policy in the 19th Century in the Belknap impeachment.

“Yer honor, the prosecution accuses my client of robbing a bank. Yet there he sits quietly in a nice suit: is he robbing a bank? No? Case closed.”