In 2007, Republican Rep. Walter Jones supported impeaching President George W. Bush. Some liberal Democrats joined him. In 2012, Jones supported impeaching President Barack Obama. Virtually no one outside of a few libertarian-leaning Republicans showed him any support. The issue was the same each time: the constitutionality of how presidents wage war. Jones’s case was fairly clear-cut, and this type of executive overreach is precisely the reason a parliamentary tool such as impeachment exists.

And no one cared.