The grounds for impeaching President Trump aren’t hard to find. AdvertisementIf not, was it a serious abuse of power — a “high crime or misdemeanor”? To help find the answers, I looked up the debates in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia that produced the impeachment language. Let the voters decide, he suggested; if a president is reelected, “that will be sufficient proof of his innocence.”AdvertisementOthers disagreed. Let the American people decide this.”Hamilton, of course, saw this coming long before he got a musical on Broadway.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 01, 2019 12:00 UTC