Practicing lawyer & law-explainer, sometimes law prof, relentless advocate for democracy and #RuleofLaw. @lesleyrosenthal @musingsinlaw
Dec 3, 2019 • 52 tweets • 27 min read
#Liveblogging the .@NYDLC#Impeachment CLE program featuring #Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman, Richard Emer Jerry Goldfeder, and Prof. Rebecca Roiphe.
@NYDLC What's a high crime & misdemeanor, what did it mean when #Constitution was written? It was a well-known term at the time, dating back to 1386 in England. The phrase draws on hundreds of years of case law.