[Saveourcountry]

But, clearly “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” are crimes. Both are crimes large and small, actual crimes. The house cannot say that they consider something he has done to be a crime if it is not already against the law. That would be ridiculous.

[Leaning Right]

> But, clearly “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” are crimes. <

By “High Crimes”, the Founders did not mean felonies. Instead they meant inappropriate actions or behavior by a person in office. So an average citizen could not be accused of a High Crime. But a Senator could.

As an example, Benjamin Franklin said that a President being obnoxious was a High Crime!

[stylin19a]

The house cannot say that they consider something he has done to be a crime if it is not already against the law. That would be ridiculous.
sounds like you've found your next mission.

good article here for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1867/01/the-causes-for-which-a-president-can-be-impeached/548144/

May want to see the nixon indictments here: http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment

have fun.