Thus far, the facts at issue in the impeachment inquiry are relatively undisputed. President Donald Trump’s administration conditioned Ukraine’s access to U.S. decision makers and military aid on it publicly announcing investigations that would benefit the president’s reelection campaign.Instead, the principal battleground is whether President Trump’s conduct qualifies as an impeachable offense. To answer that question, the inquiry has turned to ascertaining the Founders’ views of the explicitly listed offenses in the Constitution—especially “bribery”—as well as whether election interference itself is independently impeachable.But while these two issues have often been considered separately, they present a compounded threat to the democratic …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
