The House could file articles of impeachment because they don’t like the way a President shaves in the morning. They can use any reason they like.
This confuses me because the constitution says a president can only be impeached for Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. The last time I checked shaving doesn’t qualify.
A lot of ink got wasted debating the meaning of “High Crimes & Misdemeanors” during the Clinton years. It basically comes down to what the House leaders thing will fly in a Senate trial. “Misdemeanors” is a word that probably had a specific meaning to the framers, but as we’ve seen in any Constitutional question involving the Democrats, they twist language so that they can get what they want. They also have no interest in the intent of the framers.
So yes, like another poster said, “they could impeach Trump if they don’t like the way he shaves in the morning.”
Uh, I don’t think so. The Constitution provides a reason for impeachment or as it is often referred to in the proprietorial world, a “predicate” for the impeachment. Absent the predicate there can be no Constitutionally valide impeachment. It would be dismissed by the Scotus, and only the intense desire of the Court not to intervene would save the articles. They have to name a “predicate” in the articles. That is the reason there is no impeachment.