One thing I am confused about in the Constitution.
It says “high crimes and misdemeanors.
What about those misdemeanors? To me, a misdemeanor is something like jaywalking. People do it all the time, but it’s a crime.
So did the Founding Fathers make the bar super low when they wrote misdemeanors?
The definition of misdemeanor then was any kind of bad behavior or even bad attitude. The definition in law is about the only use of it today.
A misdemeanor is a crime, but with relatively small penalties. A misdemeanor is a “low crime” (vs. “high crimes” like treason and bribery (which D.C. officials commit on a regular basis)).
So impeachment requires a crime (Art. II, Sec. 4) and, thus, is supervised by the 4th and 5th Amendments which requires reasonable suspicion (RS) to even START an investigation for a crime for things like impeachment.
This whole process is unconstitutional from the start as was the Delusional Dems’ first coup attempt, the unconstitutional Mueller investigation (no RS there either).