‘Grossly incompatible’: What warrants impeachment?

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The Constitution gives Congress the power to impeach the president for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” So what exactly is a high crime or high misdemeanor?

“Whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history,” Gerald Ford once half-joked.

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