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Presidents, Prosecutions, and the Rule of Law

We the People

CHAPTER

The John U Standard for Impeachability in the House of Congress

Jeffrey Toobin: Even on the John U standard, a standard of impeachability, I think that if any president were to do what President Trump has done, knowingly take highly classified documents out and store them in an insecure manner. To me, if he was in office, it wouldn't matter because he obviously has the right to do that. But if he's once he's out of office, those type of things are the kind of things that, to me, reach the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. He should be prosecuted but there's a lot of stuff to which his team is very good at Teflon. And so we're likely to see a lot

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