Friday, December 06, 2019

Turley: Under Democrats' 'Abuse of Power' Standard, Obama Could Have Been Impeached | Breitbart

Turley: Under Democrats' 'Abuse of Power' Standard, Obama Could Have Been Impeached | Breitbart:

Image result for wikicommons images obamaGeorge Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley testified at the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday that under Democrats’ “abuse of power” standard, it was possible that every U.S. president — including Barack Obama — could be impeached.
Turley’s analysis matches that of liberal law professor Cass Sunstein, a former Obama administration official, who wrote in 2017 that abuse of power was, by itself, an insufficient grounds for impeaching a president because it was simply too broad: “Almost every American president has, on more than one occasion, passed the bounds of his power, in the sense that his administration has done something that it is not lawfully entitled to do.”

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