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A few points on today’s impeachment hearing, with expert witness statements coming out...
Harvard prof Noah Feldman lays out a broad impeachment case against Pres.Trump focused on Ukraine plot - “abused his office by corruptly soliciting” probe of Bidens.

Legally, this is the narrow case.
Never before seen a president who gets caught and “doubled down on violating his oath of office”

- Stanford prof Pamela Karlan makes a broad case for abuse of power and obstruction.
UNC prof Michael Gerhardt makes an aggressive case that evidence shows Pres. Trump has committed *every* high crime done by Nixon, then suggests he is even worse...
Gerhardt telling Congress *each* article of impeachment against Nixon applies to Trump today:

Abusing power to target rivals

Obstruction

Defying Congress
Impeachment expert witness hits a legal point we’ve reported since October — Trump’s Ukraine plot fits a case for “bribery, soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power.”

- Michael Gerhardt
Opposing impeachment, Prof Turley argues this process was rushed, unfair and proved no formal crime.
Turley notes the new Schiff report ends “with repeated references to the elements of bribery.”
Turley argues against bribery by stressing the money was released (after exposure), and spending several pages going through “18th and 21st Century” cases for bribery.
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