More than 500 law professors sign letter calling Trump actions impeachable

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/473389-over-500-law-professors-sign-letter-calling-trump-actions?fbclid=IwAR366A54MdmyUA6MTKf0L8XEw6zTzMMYLLzVUhbP_GxfPjZl-L99hn1hEJI

By Rachel Frazin - 12/06/19 12:56 PM EST

More than 500 law professors have signed an open letter calling President Trump's conduct impeachable the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that committee chairmen should begin drafting articles of impeachment.

The 520 professors said in the letter posted to Medium that impeachment does not require a crime, but rather an abuse of the public trust.

"There is overwhelming evidence that President Trump betrayed his oath of office by seeking to use presidential power to pressure a foreign government to help him distort an American election, for his personal and political benefit, at the direct expense of national security interests as determined by Congress," the professors wrote.
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"His conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the remedy of impeachment in the Constitution," they added.

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