And the public does not believe the charges against him are an impeachable offense.
It is a criminal offense, a felony, and it has historically been an impeachable offense.
"It would, in fact, be unreasonable to limit impeachable offenses to criminal conduct, " the report said.
Perot may be overdrawing the ties to Clinton, none of which yet approximate Watergate-scale implications or impeachable offenses.
The conduct alleged -- even if proven -- does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Stephen Presser, a law professor from Northwestern University, had his turn to explain what constitutes an impeachable offence.
But not being guilty of an impeachable offense is a low hurdle for a president focused on his legacy.
As serious as those charges are, not all such conduct in all instances may rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
The Independent Counsel Act calls upon the independent counsel to make a referral when there is credible and substantial information of potential impeachable offenses.
In addition, virtually everyone agrees that serious crimes such as murder and rape would be impeachable even though they do not involve official duties.
Here the judge's violation of the oath 'to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' was deemed an impeachable offense.
They must provide clear and convincing evidence of specific impeachable conduct.
The independent counsel statute requires that the independent counsel advise the House of Representatives if the independent counsel receives substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses.
CNN: Transcript: Spokesman Bakaly on delivery of Starr report
Now, beyond the question of what constitutes an impeachable offense, each senator must also confront the question of what standard the evidence must meet to justify a vote of guilty.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
As the committee considers the version of events the independent counsel suggests might rise to impeachable offenses, and then decides between the two alternative resolutions being presented, Hamilton's words seem particularly germane.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
What Mr. Schippers is saying is, please, believe that I have a whole that's greater than the sum of the parts, because they understand that the sum of the parts is not impeachable.
As to the referral itself, we have seen or heard the media ask members the largely rhetorical question: Are you saying that lying under oath or obstruction of justice is not an impeachable offense?
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
In No. 65 of the Federalist Papers, Mr. Hamilton described impeachable offenses as 'those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
This and his having already told her she would have to turn over whatever she had, hardly can support a charge of obstruction or misprision or conspiracy as a criminal offense, let alone to justify the majority counsel's conclusion of an impeachable one.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
We have reviewed the referral as it was sent, not as a set of theoretical questions about what is or is not an impeachable offense in a vacuum, but a specific set of 11 grounds tied closely with the facts as the independent counsel has presented them.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
At the Constitutional Convention, the committee on style, which was not authorized to make any substantive changes, dropped the words, "against the United States" after the words, "high crimes and misdemeanors" because it was understood that only high crimes and misdemeanors against the system of government would be impeachable.
And in that same year, Judge Hastings was convicted of lying under oath and removed by the Senate even though he had already been acquitted in a criminal trial. (It is generally recognized that an act need not be criminal in order to be impeachable.) As these examples illustrate, perjury is and historically has been a sufficient cause for conviction and removal.
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