A partisan impeachment vote is exactly what the Framers feared By Alan Dershowitz

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A partisan impeachment vote is exactly what the Framers feared
By Alan Dershowitz, opinion contributor — 11/01/19 10:00 AM EDT


A partisan impeachment vote is exactly what the Framers feared

The House vote to establish procedures for a possible impeachment of President Trump — along party lines, with two Democrats opposing and no Republicans favoring — was exactly was Alexander Hamilton feared in discussing the impeachment provisions of the Constitution.

Hamilton warned of the “greatest danger” — “that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.” He worried about “the tools” of impeachment being wielded by “the most cunning or most numerous factions” and would lack the “requisite neutrality toward those whose conduct would be the subject of scrutiny.”

It is almost as if this Founding Father were looking down at the House vote from constitutional heaven and describing what transpired on Thursday. Impeachment is an extraordinary tool, to be used only when the constitutional criteria are met. These criteria are limited and include only “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Hamilton described these crimes as being “of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”

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