In his latest op-ed in Slate, “Is Declaring a National Emergency to Build an Unnecessary Wall an Impeachable Offense?,” Professor Frank Bowman discusses factors that could make the political path to impeachment based solely on the grounds of a national emergency declaration tricky. Though it could be considered as part of a larger pattern of impeachable conduct. “Use of ‘emergency’…
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Professor Bowman’s Latest Op-Ed in Slate Provides Historical Context for Impeachable Offenses
Professor Frank O. Bowman’s recent piece in Slate, “Trump’s Foreign Policy Carnage Is an Impeachable Offense,” summarizes the history of impeachment and concludes that Congress would be within its constitutional authority to impeach Donald Trump. From its origins in 1376, when first used by Parliament in Britain, he writes that “A persistent theme in British impeachments was the charge that…