The first is that Trump shouldn't be impeached a year before the election but, instead, that voters should ultimately decide.
The second is that, while Trump did things he shouldn't have done, they're not bad enough to warrant impeachment and removal.
A piece written by a law professor that appeared yesterday in the Washington Post (link here) blows both of those theories out of the water.
Trump is accused of committing transgressions directly related to the 2020 election. He was caught unlawfully using the power of the Presidency to boost his election chances. As the professor argues in the linked piece, you could give Congress no better reason to remove Trump now, before the election.
As for Trump's actions not being serious enough to warrant impeachment and removal, the piece notes how some members of Congress don't even seem to understand what the constitution mandates. One of them wrongly said on a Sunday interview program that a President's acts must be "bribery, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors, which basically means felonies."
That is flat-out wrong.
It's all the more idiotic, considering the member of Congress who said it holds a law degree.
As the professor notes in the linked piece, "the founders believed a corrupt exchange in which the President gets something illicit in exchange for using his power was unmistakably impeachable, felonious or not."
That describes Trump perfectly.
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