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Constitutional and admin law prof. Author, Democracy's Chief Executive (U. Cal. 2022). Podcast host @DemChiefExecPod. @Monthly contributor. Corgi-obsessed.
Jan 27, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
1/ A thread. In anticipation of the #Dershowitz argument tomorrow, I'd like to point out that SCOTUS has already decided a case based, in part, on the idea that impeachable offenses can include official acts that are not crimes. Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731 (1982) was . . . 2/ was a civil damages lawsuit brought by a DOD Management Analyst against President Nixon on the alleged ground that he was unconstitutionally fired in retaliation for his congressional testimony on cost overruns. . . .