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Feldman says Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors

Constitutional law expert Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that President Trump committed “impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors.” During his opening statement, Feldman said that high crimes and misdemeanors are defined as “abuses of power and of public trust connected to the office of the presidency.” Feldman then said Mr. Trump is guilty of these offenses because he solicited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “to announce investigations of his political rivals in order to gain personal advantage, including in the 2020 presidential election.” Source

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Karlan says Trump showed a disregard for the Constitution

Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that President Trump’s actions amount to impeachable offenses because they show a disregard for the Constitution. “Saying, ‘Russia, if you’re listening,’ … a president who cared about the Constitution would say, ‘Russia, if you’re listening, butt out of our elections,'” Karlan said. “It shows a president who did this to strongarm a foreign leader into smearing one of the president’s opponents in our ongoing election season. That is not politics as usual, at least not in the United States or any other mature democracy.” Source

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Day 6, Part 2: Doug Collins’ opening statement

The House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday. Watch Congressman Doug Collins, the top Republican on the committee, deliver his opening statement. Source

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Day 6, Part 3: Noah Feldman’s opening statement

Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter professor of law and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School, said Wednesday that President Trump “committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency” in asking the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival. Watch his opening statement in the impeachment inquiry. Source

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