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Justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion, that he may ride the storm and direct the whirl wind. ladies and gentlemen, the storm in which we find ourselves today was set in motion by president trump. i do not wish this moment on the country. it is not a pleasant task that we undertake today. but we have each taken an oath to protect the constitution, and the facts before us are clear. president trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference in our elections, he directly and explicitly invited foreign interference in our elections. he used the powers ...

To you, sir, i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts. i'll insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i don't care about those facts. but everything i read on those occasions tells me that when president trump invited, indeed demanded foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge allegiance. that demand, as professor feldman just explained, constituted an abuse of power. indeed, as i want to expla...

Her testimony. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee. thank you so much for the opportunity to testify. twice i have had the privilege of representing this committee and its leadership in voting rights cases before the supreme court, once when it was under the leadership of chairman sense brenner. good to see you again and with mr. shava and once under the leadership of chairman conyers. it was a great honor for me to represent this committee, because of this committee's key roll over the past 50 years in ensuring that american citizens have the right to vote in free and fair elections....

High crimes an misdemeanors captured the other ways in which a high official might as justice joseph story explained, disregard public interests in the discharge of the duties of political offense. based on the evidentiary record before you, what has happened in the case today is something that i do not think we have ever seen before, a president who has doubled down on violating his oath to faithfully execute the laws and to protect and defend the constitution. the evidence reveals a president who used the powers of his office to demand that a foreign government participate in undermining a c...

Present that he had changed his mind on the basis of the debate on july 20th, and that it was now his opinion that in order to avoid corruption of the electoral process, a president would have to be subject to impeachment, regardless of the availability of a further election. the upshot of this debate is that the framers kept impeachment in the constitution, specifically in order to protect against the abuse of office with the capacity to corrupt the electoral process or lead to personal gain. now, turning to the language of the constitution, the framers used the words high crimes and misdemea...