12/6/2019

IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “More than 500 legal scholars signed on to a letter published Friday [12-6-19] accusing President Donald Trump of having ‘engaged in impeachable conduct’ in his dealings in Ukraine. ‘There is overwhelming evidence that President Trump betrayed his oath of office by seeking to use presidential power to pressure a foreign government to help him distort an American election, for his personal and political benefit, at the direct expense of national security interests as determined by Congress,’ they wrote. ‘His conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the remedy of impeachment in the Constitution.’ The letter comes after four other legal scholars testified at the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing Wednesday, with three of them making the case for impeaching Trump.”

Caroline Kelly, “More than 500 legal scholars sign letter saying Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 6, 2019 4:58 pm