Professor Jed Shugerman appeared in a Law Newz video where he discusses if there is enough evidence to impeach President Donald Trump.
During his opening statement, Prof. Shugerman argued that the standard for impeachment—high crimes and misdemeanors—is not quite as high as people tend to believe. “There’s a mispreceptopn that a high crime and misdemeanor must be a crime in the traditional sense.”
He gave examples of past impeachments in English history for reasons such as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, and losing a ship by neglect. In the United States, “high crimes and misdemeanors” has been applied to cases such as using the office for financial gain and filing false income tax returns. Some of the examples, Shugerman said, were like a “greatest hits” of what we’ve seen from Trump’s presidency so far, specifically unfit subordinates and misappropriating funds.
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Shugerman compared Trump’s situation to Watergate, and said that like that case, there is evidence that President Trump was covering up a crime, mentioning the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails as an example of such a crime.