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American jurist (1779–1845); US Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845
The Constitution requires U.S. House members to be at least 25 years old, to have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and to be an inhabitant of the state when elected (Article I, §2) . Cong...
Scholars anchor “abuse of power,” “tyranny,” and “usurpation of appropriations power” as impeachable through the Constitution’s catchall—“high Crimes and Misdemeanors”—and a long line of English and A...
Legal scholars reading the Constitution treated the third article of impeachment not as a narrow criminal-count but as an assertion of the House’s political-remedial power to police abuses of office—i...
The dominant body of constitutional scholarship treats “creation of an unlawful office” and “usurpation of appropriations” not as narrowly defined, freestanding categories but as species of the broade...
The Constitution states the narrow textual grounds for removing a president: “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and it vests the House with the sole power to impeach and the Se...
Treason and sedition can be cited as grounds for impeachment under the Constitution’s language—Article II, Section 4 explicitly lists “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” as remov...