Consider a transmission case in Montana that is now ensnared in both the body politic and in the local courts: The state would host a 215-mile power line owned by Enbridge, called the Montana Alberta Tie.
They believed that power of impeachment and removal should be used for a different purpose: to protect the body politic, to protect the government itself from a president who's conduct was so abusive as to constitute an assault -- a threat -- to the entire system.