Arriving in the Senate to present neither a criminal allegation nor a bipartisan House judgment to remove the President, Democrats managing impeachment have repeatedly tried to claim that America’s Founders would approve of their case. This appeal to authority is a bit strange from people who spend much of their time trying to undo the work of the Founders, especially when it comes to the Constitution’s first two Amendments. It gets stranger when one examines the history of impeachment. The Democrats’ case is a heavy lift,...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 24, 2020 18:22 UTC