Turley: ‘Dangerous’ to Lower the Standard for Impeachment

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TURLEY: "I mean, it’s become a cottage industry of people who are arguing for impeachment. 'Newsweek' said, you know, that the President is just six votes away from impeachment. You have impeachment meters and people promising that now we’re almost at that point where we can remove him. That’s dangerous because what people are really describing is what you have in Great Britain with a no-confidence vote. That is, you can remove a prime minister and his government with a simple vote of no confidence. People don’t have confidence in this president. That standard was rejected by the framers. And I think people need to understand how dangerous this really is. The Democrats spent eight years giving almost unilateral authority and creating this sort of uber-presidency. And now many of them want to create a type of temp presidency, that they can remove this president for what one article described as political disagreements"