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Monmouth Professor talks Impeachment.

With all the talk last week on impeachment, a local college professor gives some perspective on the matter. Monmouth College Political Science professor Andre Audette says there may be some misconceptions about impeachment. Almost every American President has been subject to, or threatened with impeachment. Audette says that impeachment proceedings begin in the House of Representatives who vote on articles of impeachment which are then brought to the US Senate. The Senate then decides if a president or other official needs to be removed from office. “A lot of people conflate impeachment with removal-of-office,” Audette said. “When a president or any public official are impeached, it just means that charges are brought up against them that then lead to a decision of whether they should be removed from office.” Audette says the Constitution lists a few things that could lead to impeachment: bribery, treason, and high crimes and misdemeanors. He adds that it’s very unclear, and what is determined as an impeachable offense is whatever Congress thinks it should be at a given time. Audette also added that with the recent impeachment talk of President Trump, it’s hard to tell if it’s worth it or just a waste of time. He says this process will be framing what happens in the upcoming 2020 election, and it’s unlikely that a Republican-controlled Senate would turn Trump out of office.

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