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The most powerful argument against impeaching the President is the simple, textualist one: that "high crimes and misdemeanors" means what it says.

Crimes and Misdemeanors are violations of *established law*.

"High" refers to them being serious crimes against the state.
That's at the core of Pat Cipollone and the Trump team's argument.

Very, very simple.

You can't impeach someone for something that isn't a "crime."

Which means you can't make it up on the fly.
I've heard a few arguments from the Democrats about why this simple, plain reading of the Constitutional text shouldn't apply.

First, they rely on Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 65 to argue that they only need prove an "abuse of power."

Nonsense.
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