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In reply to the discussion: Democrats House floor speech invokes power of impeachment over Trumps Middle East treachery [View all]Kaleva
(36,498 posts)"High Crimes and Misdemeanors" could mean any thing the House decides it to be. One of the articles that Andrew Johnson was impeached for was that he spoke ill of Congress in a loud voice.
"That said Andrew Johnson . . . unmindful of the high duties of his office and the dignity and proprieties thereof . . . did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States, and several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the Congress and legislative power thereof . . . and in pursuance of his said design and intent openly and publicly, and before divers assemblages of the citizens of the United States convened in divers parts thereof to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, did . . . make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces as well against Congress . . . amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes then assembled. . . ."
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/13/weekinreview/the-nation-impeachment-or-censure-either-precedent-s-ugly.html