Impeachment isn’t just Trump vs. Democrats. It’s executive vs. Congress

Published January 28, 2020 11:00am ET



Who said the Senate should be able to remove the president whenever they didn’t like how he was governing?

The Founding Fathers — nearly. James Madison had to drag them back from setting the bar for presidential impeachment at “maladministration,” which he said was so vague “it will be equivalent to tenure during pleasure of the Senate.”

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