You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Quotes about impeachable (11 Quotes)
I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. referring to former President Richard M Nixon.
It is not debatable whether the president can order electronic eavesdropping once Congress has passed a law making it criminal to do so. It is impeachable. The fact that we are sitting in 21st century America debating the issue of presidential power is ridiculous to me.
It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
is more of an impeachable offense than anything he is being charged with in Congress.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
I resign for a fundamental reason. Against my strong advice, you decided to depart from your usual professional decision-making by accepting the invitation of the House Judiciary Committee to appear ... and serve as an aggressive advocate for the proposition that the evidence ... demonstrates that the president committed impeachable offenses.
I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the Houseof Representatives considers it to be at a given moment inhistory.
The president engaged in a conspiracy of crimes to prevent justice from being served. These are impeachable offenses for which the president should be convicted.
The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.