Legal experts engage in heated exchange in Washington over articles of Trump impeachment
Three constitutional experts on Wednesday bolstered Democrats' efforts to impeach US President Donald Trump by saying the president's actions seeking foreign interference in US elections are grounds for removal, as the inquiry kicked into a new phase in Congress.
"We three are unanimous," jurisprudence professor Michael Gerhart of the University of North Carolina stated, referring to fellow witnesses Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, and professor Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School. Trump "was willing to compromise our security and his office for personal, political gain" by "directly and explicitly" inviting foreign interference in US elections in 2016 and again in his 2020 reelection effort, the Judiciary Committee chair, Jerry Nadler, said in his opening statement.One of the scholars told on Wednesday's hearing Trump had perpetrated one of the gravest political transgressions in US history.
The fourth expert, professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School - the only one chosen by Republicans - had a very different assessment.
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