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What the Constitution Says About Impeachment

What the Constitution Says About Impeachment
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), House intelligence chairman, hold a press conference on the impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Oct. 2, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
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Conscientious citizens know that the impeachment of a president—any president—is a sad occasion. It isn’t a time for the unseemly enthusiasm now displayed by many in politics and the media.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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