A Constitutional Look At The Power Of Impeachment

It’s been an eventful month, with the House of Representatives’
impeachment inquiry into President Trump becoming a font of
high-profile depositions, bombshells, attacks and counter attacks.
Further action on impeachment may well hang on four words in the
U.S. Constitution: high crimes and misdemeanors. Dr. Buckner F.
Melton Jr. is a professor of history and political science at
Middle Georgia State and author of The First Impeachment . He
joined On Second Thought to help explain what “high crimes and
misdemeanors” means, and how the phrase ended up in the
Constitution in the first place.