Andrew McCarthy: THIS is the impeachment question
Excerpt: Is it an impeachable offense? That is the question of the hour. On “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace pressed it on Republican Congressman Will Hurd of Texas. It is a question every Republican supporter of President Trump should be prepared to answer. Democrats, by contrast, determined that the president was impeachable before he ever darkened the Oval Office door; it’s not worth asking them since their answer preexisted any real or imagined occasion for posing the question. It is, of course, the question that must be asked. That does not make it a fair question. It is unfair because it assumes a fact that is not in evidence, namely: that we have a working definition of an impeachable offense on which there is agreement – or at least something close to consensus. We don’t. [This question goes directly to the heart of the matter. It has bearing on the prior impeachments of both Johnson and Clinton, both of which failed in the Senate, just as this one is likely to do, if passed by the House. There may well be no possible “all-inclusive” definition of an impeachable crime since the goal posts will move with every election. Ron P.]
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