Maxine Waters (1938) U.S. Representative from California
Mad Maxine Waters Brags That She Threatens Trump Supporters ‘All The Time’, Dailywire, 10 September 2018
“I own the soft impeachment.”
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
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Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
2000s <br class="br">Source: The definition of high crimes and misdemeanors: Speech at Berne, Switzerland http://www.bafweb.com/60308scalia.wmv (2006).
“I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.”
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
[Susan Ferrechio, Pelosi: Bush Impeachment 'Off the Table', http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/11/08/cq_1916.html, New York Times, November 8, 2006, 2008-03-15]
2000s
“These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.”
Maureen Dowd (1952) American journalist
On the Lewinsky affair, New York Times column (September 14, 1998)
Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor
Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018) <br class="br">Source: 13:54 https://www.c-span.org/video/?446316-3/washington-journal-laurence-tribe-discusses-presidential-impeachment&start=834
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
I am a profoundly religious person. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the President, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.
Senate remarks on the Trump impeachment trial (2020)
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913.
1970s
Context: An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
