Adam Schiff says there's legal precedent to impeach sitting officials for past crimes

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Adam Schiff says there's legal precedent to impeach sitting officials for past crimes
by Diana Stancy Correll
 | October 03, 2018 04:33 PM

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Wednesday there is legal “precedent” to impeach sitting officials for past criminal conduct.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee referred to the case of former Louisiana federal district court Judge Thomas Porteous Jr., who was removed from office by Congress.

"On an overwhelming basis, the Senate convicted [him] on all those articles including those two," Schiff said during an event at the Brookings Institution in response to a question from an audience member about whether a sitting president could be prosecuted due to past illegal actions before being inaugurated. "We now by constitutional terms — in a country that rarely has impeachment trials — have a precedent that you can be impeached and removed from office both for prior crimes and for lying under oath."

The Senate convicted Porteous in 2010 on four articles of impeachment, one of which was related to charges concerning his past behavior and another for lying under oath, and was therefore forced out of office.

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[Bigun]

Somebody needs to call the guys with the white coats for Mr. Shiff.

[austingirl]

Schitt, don't you need a crime first? I guess you can always invent one.

[GtHawk]

How big a fool is he for trying to open that can of worms?

[240B]

This is the same nutball that has been on CNN and MSNBC telling them that there is absolute indisputable 'proof' that President Trump has committed treason. When they ask him, What proof? Where?, he always says, Soon very soon Trump will be impeached. He is a full blown Leftist nutcase.

He has been saying this for a whole year, and yet the loony Left still take him seriously.