The recent effort by the GOP to impeach US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could make it easier to impeach President Donald Trump, says a Former Watergate lawyer.
In an op-ed for NBC released Sunday, Michael Conway argued that Rosenstein’s impeachment would pave the way for impeachment of the US commander in chief.
The top Department of Justice (DOJ) official is tasked with overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
“The resolution lowers the bar in defining what are ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ — the ambiguous standard for an impeachable offense,” wrote Conway, who acted as counsel to the US House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry of former President Richard Nixon in 1974. “Second, it reduces the threshold necessary for the House to commence impeachment proceedings in the first place.”
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