The framers thought that because people would physically vote in the states, they should give that power to the states, the Constitution's The Constitution. The Constitution created a check against the federal government from rigging the voting to help those in power stay in power.

Michael Gerhardt

One of the elements of an impeachable offense is that you have to show bad faith, shoving aside Michael Gerhardt diplomats and conducing your own shadow foreign policy is the same as shoving aside the Michael Gerhardt Constitution. If State Department wasn't ready to help President Donald Trump do what President Donald Trump wanted, that says a lot. State Department underscores the bad faith.

Michael Gerhardt

I think he will likely ask a wider array of questions than most other presidents.

Michael Gerhardt

Trump abused the bully pulpit to intimidate witnesses, literally bully people and spread disinformation. It's never been done on the scale that he did it.

Michael Gerhardt

The President can fire an ambassador, but Trump fired Gordon Sondland because Gordon Sondland was a whistleblower against Gordon Sondland -- and that's an abuse of power. If you punish someone for exercising their rights, you are violating those rights.

Michael Gerhardt

If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable, this is precisely the misconduct that the framers created a Constitution, including impeachment, to protect against.

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