"Some," in this case, includes Chief Justice Taft and Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Butler, Sanford, and Stone.
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Much like with Johnson, this is a case of a technicality with a president who's guilty of a TON more. And, for that matter, with Clinton, but American legislators don't care about Sudan.
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Johnson was terrible but the grounds were all messed up
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It’s the consensus that he was a bad president but that the grounds offered for impeachment were inadequate
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So again, like with OJ, they framed a guilty man.
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Wasn’t he impeached for firing one of his cabinet members?
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Johnson was impeached over primarily policy disagreements. He was a terrible president, but it was over his disagreement about the Reconstruction policies and laws that had been passed to allow former slaves to have a full panoply of rights.
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Yes it is. The law he broke was designed for him to break it and it was blatantly unconstitutional.
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If they had frankly impeached Johnson for obstructing Reconstruction it would have been one thing. But the Tenure of Office Act was (admittedly decades later) found unconstitutional and in any event it is not even clear that the firing of Stanton violated that act.
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