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Mandatory reading entitled the case for normalizing impeachment, ezra klein has studied the phrase, high crimes and misdemeanors. he has studied the history of impeachment in the united states government and mostly been used to impeachment federal judges who have lifetime appointments and ezra klein has discovered that high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever the united states senate says it means. joining us now is ezra klein, editor at large at vox and host of the ezra klein show. loved every word of this. could read it twice. go to the first impeachment case you cite in the article, a fe...

Case for normalizing impeachment, ezra klein has studied the phrase, high crimes and misdemeanors. he has studied the history of impeachment in the united states government and mostly been used to impeachment federal judges who have lifetime appointments and ezra klein has discovered that high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever the united states senate says it means. joining us now is ezra klein, editor at large at vox and host of the ezra klein show. loved every word of this. could read it twice. go to the first impeachment case you cite in the article, a federal judge and what this judge...

What this judge was being impeached for. >> the first ever federal impeachment is john pickering and he does not commit really a crime. he's probably suffering from early stage dementia. he's an alcohol i can. he rants and raves from the bench. this is not an unusual thing and very clear with the president there is a quite a few examples that would be impeachable firing executives, not a crime but a president who does this would be impeached. it's very clear at that time in that era that high crimes and misdemeanors is much more than just criminality. >> you make the case in your piece it is a...

Loved every word of this. could read it twice. please go to the first impeachment case that you cite in your article and this is a federal judge and this -- and what this judge was being impeached for. >> the first ever federal impeachment is john pickering and he does not commit really a crime. he's probably suffering from early stage dementia. he's an alcohol i can. he rants and raves from the bench. this is not an unusual thing and very clear with the president there is a quite a few examples that would be impeachable firing executives, not a crime but a president who does this would be imp...

That have rationales other than original intent. if you want to talk about what the framers of the constitution intended, probably the actions that took place close to the time when they were there, many of them alive when john pickering was impeached, probably best indication what original intent was. a good many people don't understand. will conflate what can happen in judicial aspect of a crime, meaning you have to go to court, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. that's not impeachment. it is a political process. >> constitutional fact. >> process of the house. >> that's absolutely correct. th...