Two of Donald Trump's leading defenders said that the Senate won't vote to dismiss articles of impeachment against him, though both argued Trump committed no impeachable offense.
against Trump, which said the president"used his official powers to pressure a foreign government to interfere in a United States election for his personal political gain, and then attempted to cover up his scheme by obstructing Congress’s investigation into his misconduct."
"My mandate is to determine what is a constitutionally authorized criteria for impeachment," he said. And abuse of power did not meet the criteria, he argued, because it"is so open-ended." House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead impeachment manager, called Dershowitz's argument that abuse of power is not impeachable"absurdist."
Schiff said"the mere idea" of Dershowitz's argument would have"appalled the founders," who were very concerned about foreign election interference. He argued that such action goes to"the very heart of what the framers intended to be impeachable." "You impeach a president. You don't let him to exert executive privilege in the House. You deny him or her their day in court," Graham said."You've destroyed executive privilege through the impeachment process. That would really make the presidency far less effective and would hurt the constitutional balance of power."
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