{"id":372252,"date":"2018-08-05T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rosenstein-impeachment-makes-trumps-easier\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:32:01","slug":"presstv-rosenstein-impeachment-makes-trumps-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rosenstein-impeachment-makes-trumps-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Rosenstein impeachment makes Trump\u2019s easier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed for NBC released Sunday, Michael Conway argued that Rosenstein\u2019s impeachment would pave the way for impeachment of the US commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>The top Department of Justice (DOJ) official is tasked with overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia investigation into Trump\u2019s alleged collusion with Russia in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The resolution lowers the bar in defining what are &#8216;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8217; \u2014 the ambiguous standard for an impeachable offense,&#8221; wrote Conway, who acted as counsel to the US House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry of former President Richard Nixon in 1974. &#8220;Second, it reduces the threshold necessary for the House to commence impeachment proceedings in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/05\/570315\/Rosenstein-impeachment-makes-Trumps-easier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s impeachment would pave the way for impeachment of the US commander in chief. The top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}