You picked the most dangerous possible criteria to serve as a precedent for how we supervise and oversee future presidents," Dershowitz told the House Democrats, including head House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. By passing the law first, lawmakers expressly recognized that criminal-like conduct was needed for impeachment, Dershowitz argued. Fearing a partisan impeachment process, the framers had rejected the offense of "maladministration" as a basis for impeachment, Dershowitz noted, and "abuse of power" was similarly vague. "If it wasn’t obvious already... President Trump was right to press for reform" in Ukraine, he wrote. It’s no surprise that such a thing is anathema to President Trump."

Source: Fox News January 28, 2020 01:02 UTC