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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Aaron Astor

      1. Some good points here, but mixes some apples & oranges. "Motive" is a slippery standard for impeachment; issue should be whether he used public power for objectively improper purposes.https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1191428248196046849 …

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      Aaron Astor @AstorAaron
      It's the second kind that is uniquely dangerous. Abuse of Presidential authority for Trump's own personal benefit and personal political fortune must be stopped in its tracks. The first kind can be stopped by legislative action and the Courts. The second only by impeachment.
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      2. Trump has, in fact, expanded executive power much less than his predecessors, and untangling the long-term expansion involves distinguishing which powers properly belong to Congress or courts, vs which shouldn't be federal powers at all.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      3. We should be alarmed at making subjective "motive" the standard for impeachment; it's child's play to attribute the worst possible motives to opponents, yet hard to prove to bipartisan satisfaction.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      4. By contrast, there are longstanding bodies of law, on which the Founders drew, prohibiting public men from misappropriating public powers mainly for private gain. The advantage of using that lens is that the inquiry doesn't require speculation about POTUS' state of mind.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      5. Misappropriation of this nature is sometimes covered by criminal statutes (hence, why Article II mentions Bribery explicitly) but the Framers did not want impeachments to be limited to strictly criminal bribery.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

      6. We return to my continuing point: abuse of power for personal gain is a political, not legal, basis for impeaching an elected president. It therefore requires bipartisan public legitimacy - especially when the voters get to weigh in on him in a year. That doesn't exist (yet).

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

          7. Unless & until a majority of Republican voters - or at least, majorities in multiple states with R Senators - believes that Trump should be removed from office for abuse of power, their elected Senators are not going to do it.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Nov 2019

          8. So: if you want Trump impeached & removed from office, no amount of yelling at Republican Senators is going to get you there. Take your case to the voters.

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        1. Adam Richardson‏ @ajrichar 5 Nov 2019
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          It will never exist because the GOP will deny votes just to make impeachment seem partisan and illegitimate! It’s not a relevant consideration anymore.

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        1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 5 Nov 2019
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          So you’re saying the Founders wanted impeachment to be bipartisan? Interesting.

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