“You do not understand the Constitution. Our Constitution has several checks and balances built into it. Impeachment is one such check. The Constitution is a little vague on what is meant by “high crimes and misdemeanors” and I think there was a reason for that.”
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I guess I don’t understand it, then, since it doesn’t say that Congress can impeach for any reason it likes. A crime, even a misdemeanor is against the law. So, to me, it seems that the constitution requires that the person that is being impeached has broken the law in some way.
If the constitution said “impeach willy nilly” and 2/3 of the Senate have to agree, then that would make more sense. But it doesn’t. It clearly states the grounds for impeachment. Both Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson had broken the law prior to impeachment, therefore following the grounds outlined in the constitution. This political show doesn’t follow the constitution at all.
The House can definitely impeach over shaving. All that needs to be done is use some “process” crime. Political prosecutors do that all the time. Politicians and POTUS’s commit potential process crimes every day in office. THe charge is the process crime, while the real reason is whatever they feel like - shaving in this scenario.
Some of them think that declining Congressional subpoenas is a kind of misdemeanor.