Harry Litman - So what about impeachment? [View all]

We come to the end of our week-long deep dive into the Comey prosecution. I hope it has been both informative and a roadmap for the key twists and turns ahead.

Before turning to the final topic, I have to again put down the marker that the Comey prosecution is the single most shameful act in the Department of Justice’s history. We have crossed a very basic line of constitutional rule. That the President could order criminal charges without evidence against a political enemy means the DOJ has hit rock bottom.

So now let’s use this final discussion to push ahead into the not-so-distant future, January 2027. Suppose (and not just suppose, but work our butts off to make it happen) that by the lights of Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and all that is good in the country, the 120th Congress has a healthy Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

In that event, a third impeachment of Donald Trump will almost certainly be on the table. That’s not just political payback, though Trump has given more than enough provocation. In his first eight months of hits term, Trump has done incalculable damages to constitutional rule. He hasn’t just pushed the boundaries of the Overton window — he has shattered the entire window. Astonishingly, his steady run of high crimes and misdemeanors has washed over Congress with barely a ripple.

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/so-what-about-impeachment