Impeachment is based on impeachable offenses. And what is an impeachable offense? whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Impeachment is based on offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
Impeachment is an act that need neither require an actual crime, and is primarily about gross neglect or abuse of power. That’s central, Sunstein said, because it makes clear two important points about when impeachment is proper: First, it need not require an actual crime; and second, it is primarily about gross neglect or abuse of power.
Impeachment is based on impeachable offenses, which concern the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a political nature, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.
Impeachment 1s 2rosecution will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.
Impeachment is genius in that it is capable of punishing the man without punishing the office.