Opinion: The House articles of impeachment could be history's takeaway on Donald Trump (via latimesopinion)
It’s an all but foregone conclusion that the House of Representatives will impeach Donald Trump, and it is almost as certain that the Senate will not convict him. For those who are convinced of the president’s venality, the latter prospect makes it imperative that the formal indictment in the House — the articles of impeachment — be detailed and all-encompassing.
In America’s first attempt to remove a president, in 1868, Andrew Johnson’s opponents in Congress accused him of dismissing his secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, in violation of a law cooked up specifically to deny him that privilege. That law, the Tenure of Office Act, was so cockeyed it was repealed in 1887, and the U.S. Supreme Court declared it an unconstitutional breach of executive power in 1926.
All three of the overarching charges against Nixon apply equally to President Trump. They can be summarized as obstruction of justice, abuse of power and defiance of legitimate subpoenas. The challenge now is to reduce all that we have learned from the Robert S. Mueller III investigation , the congressional investigations, the hush money payments, the emoluments infractions and the Ukraine scandal into a comprehensible, accurate and significant litany of particulars that justify those charges.
For all its shoddiness. the impeachment proceeding against Andrew Johnson provides several lessons worth remembering. Instead of harping on the technicalities of the trifling Tenure of Office Act, the impeachment might have focused on the real case for his removal: Johnson was systematically undermining Reconstruction. He had vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution , and he had sought to return the freedmen to a semblance of slavery.
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