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Impeachment is better than exile

  • Written by Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Impeachment is better than exilePresident Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, June 6, 2019.AP/Alex Brandon

When the framers of the Constitution created the process for Congress to impeach “all civil officers of the United States,” they rejected a much more severe punishment practiced in early America: exile.

That threat was real in the early colonial...

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