By then, we may even regard his malfeasance as constituting high crimes and misdemeanors.
Third, are obstruction of justice and perjury high Crimes and Misdemeanors under the Constitution?
Are perjury and obstruction of justice high Crimes and Misdemeanors under the impeachment clause of the Constitution?
It's the first time in American history the Senate has tried an elected president for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Perjury and crimes less serious than obstruction of justice have always and properly been considered high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Then they argued that if you find such crimes, you have high crimes and misdemeanors and, ergo, removal from office.
It is exceedingly difficult to build a private business in the state-dominated Chinese economy without committing high crimes and misdemeanors.
They wrote the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' as a threshold, but left it to us to determine what transgressions met this standard.
And the president may be removed from office only upon impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
If the president is convicted of any "high crimes and misdemeanors" by a two-thirds vote in the Senate, he is removed from office.
As Mr. Berman said this morning, not all offenses are high crimes and misdemeanors, and not all high crimes and misdemeanors come from criminal conduct.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
Third, I would briefly compare the facts against the constitutional requirements that an impeachment may proceed only for high crimes and misdemeanors and only on the basis of clear and convincing evidence.
While removal upon conviction has not always been considered inevitable, I agree that Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution requires a mandatory sentence of removal upon conviction of high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Without having what will be the committee's deliberations on this important issue, the staff simply kept in mind the broadest and the least-forgiving definition of the constitutional definition of high crimes and misdemeanors.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
And, fourth, even if the acts of the president are high Crimes and Misdemeanors, are they of sufficient gravity to warrant his conviction if it allows of no alternative other than his removal from office?
Delahunt said whatever the nation's founding fathers meant by "high crimes and misdemeanors, " they intended impeachment only for situations where the incumbent president poses such a danger to the nation that he must be replaced before the next election.
These commentators and members--who are convinced, perhaps, that the President committed perjury and obstruction of justice, which, as classes of crime, are high Crimes and Misdemeanors--may nevertheless vote not to convict because they believe that removal from office is unwarranted for this perjury and this obstruction of justice.
At the Constitutional Convention, the committee on style, which was not authorized to make any substantive changes, dropped the words, "against the United States" after the words, "high crimes and misdemeanors" because it was understood that only high crimes and misdemeanors against the system of government would be impeachable.
For me, the proof of material facts supporting some of the allegations is overwhelming, the proposition that the established facts of the President's conduct constitute perjury and obstruction of justice almost impossible to deny, and the conclusion that perjury and obstruction of justice are high Crimes and Misdemeanors a given.
While they were inside, the bond analysts had set out to write their fond, freewheeling memoirs about their high crimes and misdemeanors and all the cashish that's the way they talked they had made while screwing old people out of their retirement funds and kids out of their college savings.
It was in the face of objections from James Madison and Morris, however, that this term was too vague and would be the equivalent to tenure during the pleasure of the Senate that Mason withdrew his proposal and the convention then adopted the language other high crimes and misdemeanors against the state.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Now, let me move beyond this question of proving the case and address the next step in the managers' ostensible logical progression, namely that the crimes that they were trying to prove are high crime and misdemeanors and, therefore, a vote for conviction and removal must follow.
Although perjury and obstruction of justice are serious federal crimes, some have suggested that they are not high crimes or misdemeanors when the underlying events concern the president's private actions.
Now, the managers have made fun of the notion that hundreds of distinguished scholars and historians expressed their opinion that the offenses with which the president has been charged are not high crimes or misdemeanors.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
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