The 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry report finally identifies the argument that Democrats will use to impeach President Trump. It should be no surprise that the document is full of false narratives about the facts of the case and Trump’s intentions. But the report also tries to spin the relevant law — the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which governs situations in which the executive fails to spend authorized and appropriated funds.

Buried in the House Intelligence Committee’s report is a cherry-picked, blurred, and poorly cited description of this law, which twists it as somehow cutting against the president. As I have argued previously, however, the actual text of the act casts doubt on this entire impeachment inquiry. Democrats have long sought whatever excuse was available to impeach, but the law prescribes a much less drastic remedy for when a president withholds appropriated funds.