I am in favor of Impeaching Trump. More accurately, I am in favor of Impeaching Trump if he is guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors or if he hasn’t committed any High Crimes or Misdemeanors, shutting up about the whole thing. It seems to me that what Speaker Pelosi is doing by saying: “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison,” is totally misguided. If Trump has committed crimes worthy of prison – and if is the operative word here – then he should not be president. This statement seems to me to be exactly what so many people hate about inside the beltway politics.

Laurence Tribe, a Constitutional legal scholar at Harvard Law School, has come up with a workaround. As I understand it, Pelosi thinks Trump is guilty of High Crimes or Misdemeanors but is concerned that most people – or so we are told by polls – don’t want him Impeached. Tribe says House Impeachment Inquiry —> House Hearing of Both Sides —> Verdict of high Crimes —> Choice by House of Representatives between (a) House Resolution of Condemnation (no Senate trial) or (b) Impeachment Trial in Senate. It is an interesting article by somebody who has actually thought about it. Check it out.