More than 500 legal scholars have signed on to an open letter asserting that President Donald Trump committed 'impeachable conduct' and that lawmakers would be acting well within their rights if they ultimately voted to remove him from office.
Those who signed on to the Protect Democracy letter said they "take no position on whether the President committed a crime."
"But conduct need not be criminal to be impeachable," the group of professors wrote. "Impeachment is a remedy for grave abuses of the public trust." The impeachment inquiry has focused on what Democratic lawmakers say were Trump's efforts to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to announce an investigation into a potential 2020 rival, former vice president Joe Biden, in exchange for a White House meeting and the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid.Loading
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